European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday december 8 . The stars and stripes Page 9 Beauty products cause ugly trouble doctor says Washington apr hundreds of thousands of american women Are using cosmetics that trigger alter Gies or aggravate medical conditions skin doctors say. And the problems May get worse with new prepare Tio is on the Market they said. Or. Andrew Schuman a dermatologist at Northwestern University medical Center in Chicago said monday that after surveying the ingredients of More than companies often make a lot of claims on products that actually have very Little meaning or. Andrew Scheman a a a 5,000 products he found that Many of his patients skin problems originated at the cosmetics counter. A there Are a lot of misconceptions and a lot of Pec pie who use the wrong cosmetics a Scheman said at a National meeting of the american Academy of dermatology. Often the problem is caused by patients who buy and use products containing ingredients that cause existing conditions to get worse or directly Block the effects of prescribed medicines. He urged the doctors to pay More attention to the creams powders and lotions that their patients use. A most of our topical medications we prescribe Are very carefully selected a he said. A unfortunately Many of our patients Are also using cosmetics. Some of the cosmetics they use May interfere with what we Are trying to do and May cause Derma ologies _ Scheman said that while patients often chose the wrong cosmetics for their skin Type cosmetic companies confuse things further with vague promises. A companies often make a lot of claims on products that actually have very Little meaning Scheman said. A they sometimes can be very cleverly misleading. The physician said cosmetic companies have to be vague in product labels to comply with restrictions set by the food and drug administration but this vagueness a opens the door to misleading for instance a conveys the idea that nobody will have an allergy to the product. _ a. Since All companies avoid ingredients that will cause allergic reactions a every product on the Market could be called . Its still going to cause a reaction in a very few individuals a sen pm an products claim they have been tested by dermatologists but this is meaningless he said a because they never Tell you results of the despite his criticisms Scheman said he was generally impressed with the a intelligent design of american cosmetic products. A i was taught in medical school that most cosmetics were not very Good that we should Tell patients with acne for instance not to Wear any cosmetics a said the when i looked at these products 1 was surprised. Most of them were very Good. Scheman said patients can cause their own problems by buying products based on mistaken ideas about their own skin. A i see a tremendous number who make mistakes a he said. For instance patients with red scaly skin May assume it is caused by Day Ness and buy an oily lotion to Correct the problem. But the condition might be caused by excess Oil and the lotion actually will aggravate it. Others with dry skin May use creams containing alcohol which Drys the skin further. One of the most common mistakes said Scheman is confusing Contact irritation with an allergy reaction. He said about 7 percent of dermatology patients have some sort of Contact irritation but Only 5 percent of this number actually have an allergy. And it usually takes a doctor to Tell the difference. Chemicals added for fragrance cause the most allergic reactions and Scheman warned that Quot unscented does not mean fragrance salespeople charged with credit card fraud from wire reports Newark . A fifteen salespeople at a car Dealership were charged with using the credit records of More than.450 people to steal hundreds of millions of dollars. The salespeople tapped into credit reports through their computers used the information to change the victims addresses ordered credit cards and ran up charges said secret service agent Peter a. Cavicchia. They also allegedly used the credit information to obtain Bank Loans and Cash advances. The employees of Auto land in Springfield were arraigned monday on Federal fraud and theft charges. At least 450 individual victims have been identified and hundreds More May be found Cavicchia said. The fraud amounted to about $7,500 per person he said. The individuals arc not liable for the fraudulent charges but they must spend time repairing their credit history. Financial institutions and stores lost Money. Auto land management alerted authorities when it discovered the unauthorized use of computer terminals. Genetic tests Spur charges Allentown pay a i9-Ycar-old Man wus charged with killing and raping two women and a teen age newspaper Carrier. Police said genetic tests also led them to charge Harvey Miguel Robinson with the rape and attempted murder of a 38-Ycnr-old woman and 6-car-old girl last summer. The slayings occurred a. Tween August 1992 and last july Joan Burghardt 32, and Jessica Fortney 47, were raped and beaten by an intruder in their Homes four blocks apart police said. Charlotte Schmoyer was abduct a in june while delivering papers and was found with 22 Stab wounds. Robinson has been in jail since july when he was arrested on charges of trying to break into the Home of the 38-Ycar-Olu woman who was attacked the previous month. He already was charged in that woman s rape. The other charges were filed monday. Woman paid teen Ager to kill her police say Summit Iii. A Susan Potempa was so determined to die that she allegedly paid a teen Ager $2,100 to kill her. And when he botched her strangling police say she tracked him Down and made him finish the Job with an electric Drill. A she wanted to end her life because she was ill a Cook county states attorney Jack of Malley said monday. He said the 50-year-old Potempa had breast cancer but the extent of her ill Ness was not immediately known. Reginald Williams who lives a few blocks from the Potempa House in this tidy suburb Southwest of Chicago was jailed on murder charges monday. Investigators believe Potempa hired the 18-year-old to kill her Over the thanksgiving weekend when her husband and son were out of town at a football game Williams tried to strangle Potempa on nov. 24 at her Home but she recovered got into her car and tracked him Down to make him finish the Job of Malley said. Her husband and son found her dead in the family a garage nov. 26. Potempa had been strangled with an electrical Cord and beaten Over the head with a heavy object probably an electric Drill police said. Investigators did not know How Potempa met Williams or How Long they had been planning the slaying of Malley said. There was no indication the woman a family knew of the plot he said. Authorities became suspicious of Williams after the unemployed Man paid Cash for a used car and stereo equipment learn rom put no porno with a Notin Milij Rorr Tordiff d finnic Rumly program it 1 f of pal 11 p 1 Raj i up. Aked it Rolf Patich a of a Ihu f of mfg Aholt 4v.r> mini Tower f Omi if r of t m Harcy guff a Lomu . Him. Potempa Williams ilex p Nurr Gutti of Tell 09 Conwi Auxin assistant states attorney Jim Mccarter said. Police persuaded a Friend of Williams to Wear a hidden radio transmitter and talk with him about the slaying. He was arrested saturday after he was heard discussing the killing and the payment police said. Neighbors of Potempa had trouble believing the police account. 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