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Dear Becky,
A chemist, huh? I'd never thought about what ELSE is in something like estrogen creams which is odd because I carefully read the labels of things like moisturizing lotion, wanting to avoid parabens. So there it is on my Estrace tube - a long list of chemicals including parabens. However I guess since they are under suspicion for the estrogen-like effects (I think?), their presence in an estrogen cream is less significant. Here's what ELSE is in Estrace:
propylene glycol, stearyl alcohol, white ceresin wax, mono-and di-glycerides, hypromellose, sodium lauryl sulfate, methylparaben, edetate disodium, and t-butylhydroquinone.
And we're putting that inside our bodies. As a chemist, do you see any red flags there, apart from the parabens? Do you think that some of these chemicals have not been sufficiently studied to know if they are safe? At least it's not like lotion, applied daily over large surfaces?
Debbie
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