Is a study whose results are published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine that reveals the fact. In this study, it was found that there is an additive that can be found in quite a lot of men's body care products such as toothpaste, sunscreen, lotion, face washing soap, shampoo soap, or even conditioner that is harmful to sperm quality. The additive is paraben.
For men who tend to have a higher concentration of parabens in their urine, they tend to have abnormal sperm or can not move well with more numbers. In addition, there is also another content called butylparaben which can also trigger damage to sperm DNA. Paraben itself is able to disrupt endocrine function. The problem is, it can also affect testosterone levels as well as sperm production in men. This will certainly impact on the difficulty of men get offspring.
In a study conducted at an infertility clinic in Poland, there are at least 325 samples of sperm and urine of men who made the research. Not only the sperm quality is taken into account, the level of 5 types of parabens are found in many male body care products are also checked the concentration on the urine sample. The result is, the influence of this paraben on sperm condition can reach 70 percent.
This study will continue to be able to find out how much paraben content is considered safe in the body care products that we use.