Skin Care and electromagnetic waves
Something new to worry about? Or just a new angle to sell expensive skin cream?
I just read a new skin care advertisement by Clarins, stating their research has found a link between accelerated skin again and exposure to artificial electromagnetic waves. “If electromagnetic waves can penetrate walls, imagine what they can do to your skin.” The ad says it’s the subject of a science research paper – but I went to the Clarins website and couldn’t’ find it.
The new product, Expertise #3, poly pollution protection, is backed by science to provide “patented protection product that helps prevent accelerated skin aging caused by electromagnetic waves and daily environmental pollution with an invisible skin shield to prolong youth, health and beauty.”
Now, you know, skin cancer prevention is important to me, so I did some of my own checking. I found this research, “Vernon, a small city in New Jersey, has a population of 25,000 people, has so many microwave stations that it ranks fifth in the entire USA. The proportion of mentally retarded children there is 1000 times that of the national average.”
And from the same article, “In 1953, a doctor working in an airplane plant found 75 to 100 workers, with prior exposure to low levels of microwave, had bleeding tendency, leukemia or brain tumors. Other research shows that electromagnetic waves of frequencies up to 27 MHz can cause the chromosomes in garlic seedlings to undergo abnormal changes.”
And then I checked with the World Health Organzation, who says the health risks of EMF are uncertain. They cite several research studies, and the most persuasive involves the possible increase risk of leukemia in children associated with exposure to EMF at frequencies of 50/60Hz. However, WHO’s conclusion of all the research is that “Expert committees that have reviewed this evidence have consistently found it to be too weak to be persuasive.”
Despite that research, the WHO has implemented a Prudent Avoidance policy, which is defined as “undertaking those avoidance activities that carry modest costs”. The report also says, the terms “simple”, “easily achievable”, and “low cost”, however, lack precise meaning. “Generally, government agencies have applied the policy only to new facilities, where minor modifications in design can reduce levels of public exposure. It has not been applied to require modification of existing facilities, which is generally very expensive.”
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Hi Susie-
I am the Public Relations Manager for Clarins. You can find information about Expertise 3P on the clarins.com homepage but I would be more than happy to give you more information if you are interested!
Thanks,
Nicole
Nicole, I’d love to read the white paper, or research paper that is mentioned in the Clarins ad. Please forward it to me. Thanks,
Susie J