This past week we completed the soap lab and in the course of the lab we used some exotic source fats and oils. It turns out that some of these exotic fats and oils can impact hormone levels in men as reported in WebMD. Now in the good old days (when men were men and smelled like men) men used commercial soaps and this would not have been a problem. But now, with a lot of personal hygiene products geared towards men containing exotic ingredients it takes a while for the long term effects to "come out", so to speak. In the words of the researchers ...
"The tests showed that lavender and tea tree oils may boost estrogen (a sex hormone that promotes female characteristics and is linked to breast development) and hamper androgens (sex hormones that promote male characteristics and inhibit breast growth)."
Link to WebMD posting about shampoos and skin creams causing men to grow breasts.
We were also talking about alcohols and the significance of the various isomers. Note that the solution to the problem of people drinking hand sanitizer seems to be using scary organic nomenclature rules.
Link to WebMD posting about people drinking hand sanitizer
1 comment:
I just realized that the expression ...
"geared towards men containing exotic ingredients "
could be taken several ways. There seems to be a basic malfunction of the subject - verb - object structure of the sentence.
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