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This was posted on the sun website this morning ! As a Sienna X spray tanner we are a little worried
By JANE HAMILTON, Consumer Writer
Published: Today at 00:52
FAKE tan users were last night warned they face a health timebomb from chemicals in top-selling lotions.
Danger ingredients include hormone-disrupting compounds — known as gender benders — along with carcinogens.
Other components in the chemical cocktail include allergy-causing skin irritants and substances which release poisons — including cancer-causing formaldehyde and nitrosamines.
Pregnant women who apply the tanning lotions are being told they could face a higher risk of birth DEFECTS.
Experts say men and women could suffer FERTILITY problems and stars like TOWIE girl Lauren Goodger using the lotions may also be exposed to an increased cancer risk.
Jacqueline McGlade — executive director of the European Environment Agency — said: “It would be prudent to take a precautionary approach to many of these chemicals until their effects are more fully understood.
Brownie point ... Lauren Goodger with an Essex tan
Flynet “They may be a contributing factor behind the significant increases in cancers, diabetes and obesity and falling fertility. It’s the cocktail effect.”
And Elizabeth Salter-Green, of the UK charity the Chem Trust, said: “Many of the chemicals in fake tan are toxic to reproduction and can harm a foetus.”
The effects are thought to be greater than for other cosmetics as the tan is applied all over the body several times a week.
Fake tan sales are worth £100million a year in the UK and are the fastest-growing area for cosmetic sales. A third of women and one in ten men admit to using it.
Most tans contain dihydroxyacetone (DHA) which reacts with the amino acids on the skin’s surface to turn it brown.
Spray warning ... 'danger ingredients' in lotions
Stewart Williams Lindsey McManus, Deputy CEO, Allergy UK said: “There are chemicals such as formaldehyde, MSG and tartrazine amongst others, which could cause concern for allergy sufferers, if used on a regular basis and especially over a long period.”
Alyson Hogg of Vita Liberata, a UK firm that has developed the only fake tan free from dangerous chemicals, said firms used them as they were “cheap and easy”.
Last night cosmetics manufacturers insisted all ingredients were safe.
Dr Chris Flower, director general of the Cosmetics, Toiletry and Perfumery Association, said: “There are stringent EU laws covering the manufacture of cosmetic products.”
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By JANE HAMILTON, Consumer Writer
Published: Today at 00:52
FAKE tan users were last night warned they face a health timebomb from chemicals in top-selling lotions.
Danger ingredients include hormone-disrupting compounds — known as gender benders — along with carcinogens.
Other components in the chemical cocktail include allergy-causing skin irritants and substances which release poisons — including cancer-causing formaldehyde and nitrosamines.
Pregnant women who apply the tanning lotions are being told they could face a higher risk of birth DEFECTS.
Experts say men and women could suffer FERTILITY problems and stars like TOWIE girl Lauren Goodger using the lotions may also be exposed to an increased cancer risk.
Jacqueline McGlade — executive director of the European Environment Agency — said: “It would be prudent to take a precautionary approach to many of these chemicals until their effects are more fully understood.
Brownie point ... Lauren Goodger with an Essex tan
Flynet “They may be a contributing factor behind the significant increases in cancers, diabetes and obesity and falling fertility. It’s the cocktail effect.”
And Elizabeth Salter-Green, of the UK charity the Chem Trust, said: “Many of the chemicals in fake tan are toxic to reproduction and can harm a foetus.”
The effects are thought to be greater than for other cosmetics as the tan is applied all over the body several times a week.
Fake tan sales are worth £100million a year in the UK and are the fastest-growing area for cosmetic sales. A third of women and one in ten men admit to using it.
Most tans contain dihydroxyacetone (DHA) which reacts with the amino acids on the skin’s surface to turn it brown.
Spray warning ... 'danger ingredients' in lotions
Stewart Williams Lindsey McManus, Deputy CEO, Allergy UK said: “There are chemicals such as formaldehyde, MSG and tartrazine amongst others, which could cause concern for allergy sufferers, if used on a regular basis and especially over a long period.”
Alyson Hogg of Vita Liberata, a UK firm that has developed the only fake tan free from dangerous chemicals, said firms used them as they were “cheap and easy”.
Last night cosmetics manufacturers insisted all ingredients were safe.
Dr Chris Flower, director general of the Cosmetics, Toiletry and Perfumery Association, said: “There are stringent EU laws covering the manufacture of cosmetic products.”
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