By Helene - Have you ever tried to take a look at the composition of your food, moisturizers, shampoos, toothpaste, cleansing gels, etc? I know, lots of barbaric and alien words. But I really encourage you to do so!!! Let me illustrate this for you. Grab one of your everyday lotions or soaps. Do you see ‘parabens’ listed on it? If you don’t see it, you can consider yourself very lucky! Unfortunately, I have the regret to tell you that pretty much all the products you buy for everyday use contain some form of PARABENS.  Now, you may wonder what on earth are parabens. Well, parabens are a group of low cost and very effective chemicals widely used as preservatives.  Historically considered safe for daily use, they are becoming increasingly controversial. Recent studies have shown that parabens could be associated with breast cancer, infertility, DNA damage, etc. For some of you scientific aficionados, you can easily find all these studies listed in the scientific search engine website pubmed (entry: parabens).  I don’t really want to scare you, but keep in mind that parabens are just one example among many other unsafe chemicals used in daily products. So, be sure to pay close attention to what you are eating and putting on your skin!