Does baby oil prematurely age your skin?

I found this for you. I would not use baby oil or any other petrolium based product. Many have been proven to be carcinogenic. Read to the last line. Hope this helps.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_oil

Mineral oil or liquid petrolatum is a by-product in the distillation of petroleum to produce gasoline. It is a transparent, colorless oil composed mainly of alkanes (typically 15 to 40 carbons) [1] and cyclic paraffins, related to white petrolatum. Mineral oil is a substance of relatively low value, and it is produced in very large quantities. Mineral oil is available in light and heavy grades, and can often be found in drug stores.

Applications :

Refined mineral oil is used as transformer oil.

Alkali metals are often submerged in mineral oil for storage or transportation. The oil prevents the metals from reacting with atmospheric moisture.

Mineral oil is sometimes taken orally as a laxative. It lubricates feces and intestinal mucous membranes, and limits the amount of water removed from feces. Typically, mineral oil is effective within six hours. While it has been reported that mineral oil may be absorbed when emulsified, most information shows that it passes harmlessly through the gastrointestinal system.

If used at all, mineral oil should never be given internally to small children, pets, or anyone with a cough, hiatus hernia, or nocturnal reflux, and should be swallowed with care. Due to its low density, it is easily aspirated into the lungs, where it cannot be removed by the body and can cause serious complications such as lipoid pneumonia.[2] While popular as a folk remedy, there are many safer alternatives available.

Mineral oil with added fragrance is marketed as baby oil in the US, UK and Canada.

As the previous comment states, Baby Oil is is a Mineral oil which is a by-product in the distillation process of petroleum to produce gasoline (and hence very abundant and available at little cost). I think that as with any product there will be people who swear by it and have only good things to say about it and there are also people who have a bad reaction and wouldn't go near it! I would suggest that you would be much better off putting a natural product that contains no synthetic additives (like the perfumes/fragrances that are put into some baby oils) on your dry skin. Anything that you put on your skin is absorbed into your body so why put potentially harmful chemicals on yourself that are absorbed and can affect other organs in your body, your skin might feel OK but what about the rest of you? Many scented products contain harmful chemicals, some are even listed on the EPA's Hazardous Waste List!

baby oil fries you dont do it. when I was in Brooklyn the puerto rican gilrs tanned and they were gorgoeus they used ban de soleil for that san topez tan (singing it of course) or something like that.