Posted on 10/12/2007 2:16:07 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick
ATLANTA: Lipsticks tested by a US consumer rights group found that more than half contained lead and some popular brands including Cover Girl, L’Oreal and Christian Dior had more lead than others, the group said on Thursday.
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics said tests on 33 brand-name red lipsticks by the Bodycote Testing Group in Santa Fe Spring, California, found that 61% had detectable lead levels of 0.03 to 0.65 parts per million (ppm).
Lipstick, like candy, is ingested. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a coalition of public health, environmental and women’s groups, said the FDA has not set a limit for lead in lipstick.
One-third of the lipsticks tested contained an amount of lead that exceeded the US Food and Drug Administration’s 0.1 ppm limit for lead in candy — a standard established to protect children from ingesting lead, the group said. Thirty-nine per cent of the lipsticks tested had no discernible lead, it said.
"It’s critical that manufacturers reformulate their product," said Stacy Malkan, a co-founder of the coalition. "It’s possible to make lipsticks without lead, and all companies should be doing that."
Lead can cause learning, language and behavioral problems such as reduced school performance and increased aggression. Pregnant women and young children are particularly vulnerable to lead exposure, the group said in its statement. Lead has also been linked to infertility and miscarriage, it said. Over the last three months, more than 20 million toys made in China have been recalled, mostly due to the use of lead paint.
IMO.....I think we have been consuming lead for many years in the form of lipstick, toys etc. but now the media seems to think it is a big deal, I am not to concerned, maybe I should be, I don’t know.
Been divorced 6 years. . . .no wonder I run into so many kooky women.
Woohoo! Explains why American women are by and large insane.
Explains a lot.
giggle.....you might be on to something....as a female I would have to agree with you...
Note to self: Don’t eat lipstick while pregnant.
Here come the blonde jokes..
I call BS. Just another LOSER scientist type looking for funding by making a controversial “research” paper.
Watching Ken Burns "The War" documentary, it featured a girl whose mom saved some lipstick for when they were rescued. They had eaten all the rest.
I caught that too. I guess she did mean literally eaten and not used. It would give one the feeling of fat or grease in the mouth which I am sure they craved. I thought I heard her say her mother weighed 67 pounds at some point.
Somebody please tell John Edwards.
actually this is not a big deal. most of the women that use lots of lipstick don’t have any neurons left for lead to dull anyway!
should be a lot of dead people from all the kissing over the years shouldn’t there????? My dad mixed paints and they had lead in them and he lived to be 90 years old. Fear tactics...always fear tactics. :)
Surely lipstick components are far more likely to be ingested by the user, being customarily applied on the edges of the oral orifice, than is the lead contained in Boy Scout badges. I doubt that any Boy Scouts lick or eat their badges or insignia. Yet there were “news” reports of a massive “recall” of Boy Scout paraphernalia said to contain traces of the fearsome lead.
Go figure!!
>US Food and Drug Administration’s 0.1 ppm limit for lead in candy...
The worst they found was only 6.5 times the candy limit. How many people ingest more lipstick than 1/6 the amount of candy that is typically eaten?
To give you an abstract idea of just how much lead is present, to ingest 1 single gram of lead from lipstick you would need to actually eat one and a half tons of it.
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