What is Progesterone Cream and Why it Matters
What's in a cream?
A cream is just oil and water mixed together. The progesterone is in the oil and not the water. So once you put the progesterone cream on the skin, the water evaporates after several minutes and all that is left on the skin is the oil portion of the progesterone cream. So there is another chemical in the cream called an emulsifier that keeps the oil and water mixed together. Then a thickener is put in.why preservatives are bad
Because the cream contains water, a preservative must be used. Typically, parabens or phenoxyethanol is used to act as a preservative. Unfortunately, parabens and phenoxyethanol are chemicals that mimic estrogen and have made my severe endometriosis patients sicker.
More is not better
Many times manufacturers add scents and herbs to the
progesterone cream to make them more palatable.
Unfortunately, these scents and herbs usually contain
aromatics like benzene ring components that are
estrogenic. For those of you that are students
of 
organic chemistry, phenol or
a benzene ring with an OH will fit into the estrogen
receptor. Any ring shaped compound should be
suspect as a hormone disrupter. Anything that is
aromatic has a benzene ring in it usually. So
anything that is aromatic should be a suspect as a
hormone disrupter until proven otherwise.
When I first started doing progesterone cream in 1999,
I got a particular progesterone cream and gave it to
my mother. She had a uterine fibroid the size of
a softball. She used the progesterone cream for
a month and her fibroid actually got bigger. So
I began to look at the ingredients of the progesterone
cream and found it contained rosemary. I called
up the manufacturers of the progesterone cream and
questioned them on this. They answered that they
put rosemary in the progesterone cream for its
phytoestrogenic properties for hot flashes.
I asked them, “What is a phytoestrogen?”. They
answered, “A phytoestrogen is a plant estrogen.
We put that in there for hot flashes.”
I was shocked.
I had never heard of this in Medical School that some
plants could mimic estrogen and create plant
estrogens. In reality, Europeans have 300
different folk medicines that increase breast
size. 200 of the 300 formulations are topical
formulations. In some 
regions of China, they use
fragrant herbs to increase the size of the women’s
breasts for aesthetic regions. What do you think
is in these herbal preparations?
The rosemary in my mother’s progesterone cream
actually made my mother’s fibroid bigger.
So unknowingly, some progesterone cream formulations
use fragrant herbs to make their cream smell nice, but
are in reality adding phytoestrogens to their
formulations. If you are trying to treat breast
cysts, this is not too smart.
I could not find an emulsifier that was safe. The
safest emulsifier that I could find in 1999 was soy
lecithin. I called John Lee, MD about using soy
lecithin in a progesterone cream. He did not like
this.
safer simpler formulation - progesterone oil works
just like the cream without all the other junk
The safest formulation I could find was progesterone
and coconut oil with no water. If there is no
water, then there is no preservative needed.
There is no emulsifier needed.
I believe I get superior results because of this
simple formulation. I use just progesterone and
coconut oil. It
is called Progestelle. Go here to buy some
Progestelle.
