Does Lavender Contain Estrogen?
It has been said that it contains estrogen. This is a great write up in regards to that in fact that no it doesn't have an affect on boys. This started out when there were three isolated cases of gynecomastia (enlarged breasts) occurred in three boys going through their puberty age and they had all used topical products that contained essential oils. A study was conducted on rats and oil was used but at a 5,000 to 1000,000 times greater ratio than the average/typical exposure that us humans would ever have even if we used it everyday all day and even then nothing occurred as far as signs of estrogen in a male rat. So basically was a coincidence with no evidence to support the conclusion of lavender causing their symptoms.
At least through all these studies of lavender oil they were able to conclude more safety information.
-EO Nerd
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