Gel manicures have taken over the nail world and the concept has been truly revolutionary.
Does gel polish ruin your natural nails, for instance?
Suffice it to say, plenty of errors can easily be made when getting regular gel manicures.
The UV dryers used to make gel manicures so convenient and long-lasting could be mutating cells and causing cancer.
Acute subjects were under the UV dryers for two 20-minute periods with an hour break in between.
During the chronic study, cells were exposed for 20 minutes, three days in a row.
For the acute cells, there was a 20 to 30% death.
However, for chronic subjects, there was 65 to 70% cell death.
Likewise, “We saw that exposure may cause mitochondrial dysfunction, which may also result in additional mutations.
