Ayeshia said:
What made you try the Aubrey in the first place?
I recently found out that I had a small uterine fibroid tumor. This is pretty common, especially among African-American women. I was curious to see if there were any dietary changes that I should make that would keep the tumor from getting bigger or even help it to shrink altogether.
Well, I stumbled across some interesting information about things you should avoid, for example, you should not use saran wrap to cover things you are heating up in a microwave. You should use glass or ceramic bowls to heat things up, not plastic or styrofoam. The list goes on and on.
And it also mentioned body lotions and shampoos, et cetera, and how many of them contain a preservative called butylparaben or methylparaben or some other "paraben" and that this mimics female estrogen and is "absorbed" into the skin, and that too much estrogen is one of the things that can cause fibroids in the first place.
Now, MOST products that we know contain this ingredient (CON, Elucence, Kenra, Mane & Tail, and many others if you look on the ingredient list), and maybe it is no big deal really. But after reading this article, I just wanted to stop using products that I've been using that list this ingredient.
Fortunately, I tried the Aubrey Honeysuckle Rose after reading good reviews about it here at LHCF, and I REALLY did like it. So it all worked out.
Anyway, if anyone wants to check out the article, you can find it here:
http://www.fibroid101.com/xeno.htm
About midway through it in a section titled
Preservative Methyl Paraben in Skin Lotions and Gels, it talks about shampoos and other things that made me go, Hmmmmmmmmm.
Again, there may be no real cause for alarm, but I just felt better throwing away some of my products after reading their ingredient list. And with prayer, better diet, more exercise, and less parabens in my life, hopefully I'll write y'all in six months and say, That fibroid tumor has disappeared!!