The Pros And Cons Of Mascara

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In the 21st century, more and more Americans are paying attention to their appearance. At the beginning of the day, most of them would like to consume some grooming or hygiene products in order to have perfect presentation and give other people a deep impression. Therefore, more and more companies are producing some products which can help people have a better presentation. Mascare is going to be one those products. It is very important in women's life, because it can help women become more beautiful on their facial appearance, which it also directly help women having a good presentation. “Hauschka Volume” , which is one of the famous brands of Mascara, and it's Mascara consists with 7 majority components: coal tar dyes, fragrance, formaldehyde …show more content…

This is a strong neurotoxic which it lethal if people absorb 0.2-0.4 grams into their body. The acute poisoning person see loss of appetite, need more water, salivation, vomiting, bloody and diarrhea, eye inflammation, gait instability, and other performances. It will cause by sudden death is mainly due to cardiac conduction system and spinal cord damage, and it also caused acute kidney failure(Basic). The propose of industries using mercury in mascara that they mixed mercury with chlorine, and get the production HgCl, this element can use as preservative, in order to extend the expire the day of the product. More importantly, mascara is used near the eyes, and eyes have the closest nerval connect with brand, which means mercury can easily go into people’s brand by blood circulation and causes irreversible damage, such as nervous prostration, increase violent tendencies and reducing IQ. In addition, by the time people absorbed mercury into body by whatever accident, mercury will stay in their body forever, there is no way to get rid of the mercury from inside of human’s body so far. Even though, mercury only take a little weight overall the ingredient, probably like 1/10000 grams in entire mascara. However, the potential damage of mercury bring to people cannot be ignored or avoided. Moreover, the worker is the biggest victim for those manufacturing that extract the mercury. Mercury only can extract by …show more content…

In general, this element is not as harmful as mercury did to the people, but it won’t bring any advantages to human’s body either. It has the unbreakable relationship with the women’s breast cancer. Paraben can prevent bacteria from breeding in the mascara in order to keep product much longer. This organic mixed element is very easy for human being extract from the natural and scientist have not found out there has any harmful to the environment, because this organic mixed element property is very constant of being liquid, so it will not have any negative effect to those manufacturing worker. It only impact the people who using it with touching the skin. Philippa Darbre is one of most vocal senior lecturer in oncology and researcher in biomolecular sciences at the University of Reading, in England. He did not find out the directly relationship for causing breast cancer is parabens, but he researched that people who using more mascara contain parabens will have the high risk of getting breast cancer(Parabens). Paraben, it will easily permeate to our blood by human’s pore, and it will does the same job as female hormone, but it will reacts with one of the element on our body and precipitate nearby the breast. However, nobody can determine that parabens have the directly connection with breast cancer, but only know it has the probability.

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