Showing posts with label sprays. Show all posts
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Monday, 18 July 2016

Scientists Created New Deodorant to Fight Against Offensive Smell!

To relieve the people from bad body odour, scientists have crafted a new deodorant which indicates that now people will never smell of body odour.

Conventional roll-ons or sprays were created in a way that could only mask the offensive smell or block the pores in order to stop them from secreting the perspiration in the armpits.

With the new formula, the scientists have been able to reduce or stop chemicals in the sweat that turn into the foul smell in the first instance.

Anyone with wounded or sensitive skin having blocked pores by the use of traditional deodorants can hope for the good by using this innovated product.

The research was funded by cosmetics firm L’Oreal, and the product was developed by scientists at the Compiègne University of Technology in France.

Bad Body Odour in Children
Image Credit - The Sun
There are certain chemicals in perspiration that turn into the bad smell. The deodorant comprises an active ingredient which just acts like antibodies so to target the particular chemicals that are present in the sweat.

The head of the Enzyme and Cell Engineering Institute at CUT, Professor Karsten Haupt stated that whenever the issue of body odour is discussed, it usually refers to the smell that is emitted from the armpits.

The secretions in the sweat itself are unscented. It is the bacteria that reacts with the sweat and transforms the perspiration into smelly and volatile molecules. After catching the irritating molecules in the person’s sweat, the antibodies remain compelled and difficult for the bacteria unless they are wiped off or washed completely.

For security reasons, the deodorant is being tested, and there is a hope that the new formula will be available in the market within few years.

Thursday, 9 June 2016

The Possible Dangers of Routine Used Antiperspirants for Children

In 2011, a census was held which revealed that more than 500 parents informed that their kids between 4 to 11 start using deodorants. As per the US Census Bureau report 2007, around 32 million children were in this age group out of which approximately 16 million kids started using deodorants at the age of 11. The products used by those kids were ordinary due to which some people raised their concern for the possible damages that may be faced because of the presence of chemicals in these products. The same study revealed that only about 38 percent of the parents knew that body sprays contain harmful chemicals involving aluminum, paraben and propylene glycol.

Aluminum

Studies have shown that the products comprising aluminum are harmful to the health. Antiperspirants are the ones that contain aluminum salts. Certain neurological damages have been observed in the presence of aluminum in the brain, Alzheimer’s disease is the most common among them. Memory deficits, Parkinson, anemia and much more are the diseases that have been associated with the use of aluminum. 2001 study indicated that aluminum gets absorbed into the body after only one application of antiperspirant that remains in the blood for many days.  

Paraben

Paraben comprises properties of a preservative that is used as an antifungal because it reduces the bacterial effects. Some researchers have considered that there is a connection between body spray (having the components of parabens) and breast cancer. The hormone estrogen can be irritated by the paraben that can play an important role in the breast cancer. Research studies conducted by different scientists have shown that long term use of the paraben (even in low dose) can collect in the body. Twenty women with breast tumors were tested that revealed a significant amount of paraben presence in the tumors of all females. However, the tissue samples from healthy women without breast cancer were not taken so it cannot be verified that the women suffering from breast cancer had huge amounts of paraben in the tissue as compared to the healthy women. So scientists can’t prove that parabens can make a contribution to the development of cancer cells.

Propylene Glycol

It is the most commonly used component in the body sprays and antiperspirants. Propylene Glycol is also used in the antifreeze. One of the biggest disadvantages of Propylene Glycol is that it enters the skin very quickly, and the Environmental Protection Agency has warned the factory employees to prevent themselves from getting their skin contacted with this chemical so to prevent the abnormalities of kidney, brain and liver.