Does your wrinkle cream recently leave you in agony? Does your skin turn red or scorched? You hardly ever experience this problem previously. So why now?

The culprits are Methylisothiazolinone (MI) and Methylchloroisothiazolinone/Methylisothiazolinone (MCI/MI), which are widely used in shampoos, tissue wipes and not forgetting moisturizers. MI is a paint preservative which appears to be the largest culprit of skin allergies.

MI can lead to contact dermatitis. Upon direct contact with MI, it may induce your skin to become red and itchy. Many experts believe that MI is one of the most harmful outbreaks of allergy to beauty products.

Therefore why do skin care firms still use them in their items? If MI is the main cause of the increasing occurrences of allergy outbreak, do you really think it's safe to use toiletries?

To extend the shelf life of the skin care products, MI is used. With the existence of this additive in the liquid-based lotions, viruses, bacteria or mold cannot thrive. Not including MI will result in the ineffectiveness of the products in two weeks after the seal is broken.

Producers have utilized a combination of MI and MCI/MI for years. Scores of companies began making use of MI on its own since the authorization of single-agent use in 2005 by the European Commission. Used alone, it had been used at a higher concentration.

The belief that MI was less likely to trip allergies than other substances encouraged them to make use of greater concentrations. Yet, it had resulted in an increasing number of men and women to be afflicted with skin allergies.

Anyone can react adversely to particular compounds at any time. Since the concentration of MI in products increased, there has been a serious jump in incidents of contact dermatitis, particularly in the last 2 years.

When your immune system wrongly detects an allergen as a menace, you will suffer allergies. Fragrances and preservatives tend to be the most known causing factor to skin allergies.

Sometimes, you react to certain compounds that you never had problem before. No one understand why the body behaves this manner. However, once you develop allergies, you've to cope with with them for life.

A few years back, allergy to cosmetics was unusual. At this moment, people are being exposed to much higher doses than in the past, contributing to a sharp increase in allergies. It is predicted that 1 in 10 patients having eczema or dermatitis is allergic to MI.

Assuming you are allergic to MI and MCI/MI, you will notice blistering, red rashes, swelling or oozing on your skin. Face and hands are the most prone parts of your body. But this doesn't necessarily mean other regions of the body are spared. As long as you come into contact with MI, your skin will respond adversely to it.

You should as soon as possible pay a visit to your doctor if you suspect your skin allergies are induced by cosmetics. To play safe, ask your dermatologist to perform an allergy patch testing. If you have rashes because of using cosmetics, usually they should go away after a week the moment you've stopped utilizing the product. To ease the symptoms, you can apply steroid creams.

Skin allergies resulting from preservatives such as MI and MCI/MI can reach crisis stage if not a single thing is done to govern its usage in cosmetics, skin care products and toiletries. There have been demands made by the medical communities to ban cosmetic products containing methylchloroisothiasolinone and methylisothiasolinone but this will take a while. What you can do at this point is to check the labels once you've found the chemicals that cause skin reactions. If the label declares "natural" or "organic", it does not guarantee that the products are without allergy-causing agents.