Comments on: Is Lancome Lipstick Loaded With Lead? http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/10/04/is-lancome-lipstick-loaded-with-lead/ Cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions! We are a group of cosmetic scientists who understand what the chemicals used in cosmetics really do, how products are tested, and what all the advertising means. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Sarah http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/10/04/is-lancome-lipstick-loaded-with-lead/comment-page-1/#comment-66588 Sarah Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:00:59 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/10/04/is-lancome-lipstick-loaded-with-lead/#comment-66588 I'll even be the guinea pig. Name me all lipstick brands you've been told have lead content, and as long as they haven't been pulled from the market for *genuinely* unsafe levels, I'll volunteer to use one of them each day and check back here once a year or so to let you know if I have any symptoms of toxicity. I’ll even be the guinea pig. Name me all lipstick brands you’ve been told have lead content, and as long as they haven’t been pulled from the market for *genuinely* unsafe levels, I’ll volunteer to use one of them each day and check back here once a year or so to let you know if I have any symptoms of toxicity.

]]> By: Sarah http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/10/04/is-lancome-lipstick-loaded-with-lead/comment-page-1/#comment-66587 Sarah Sat, 26 Feb 2011 05:56:00 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/10/04/is-lancome-lipstick-loaded-with-lead/#comment-66587 Char, Did you know that there are acceptable limits for lead in drinking water? Yep, all the water we drink has a bit of lead in it. The amount of exposure we'd get from the concentrations that have been found in lipstick is even lower than what you'd get from perfectly safe drinking water. If you go searching for lead, you will find it. Laboratory tests for lead are extremely sensitive, can detect minute amounts. It's out there. It's not only from pollution, but naturally occurring in the earth's crust. http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/AssessingRisk/upload/Natural-Occur-Inorg-at-AF-Bases.pdf You get more lead exposure walking down a city street than using lipstick. When you make your own cosmetics, there's probably lead in them, because lead is everywhere. There's no conspiracy here, except that of the people who went looking for tiny traces lead in lipstick in an effort to scare consumers. Wake up people! Trace amounts are not the same as toxic amounts! That is why we can eat table salt! Char,

Did you know that there are acceptable limits for lead in drinking water? Yep, all the water we drink has a bit of lead in it. The amount of exposure we’d get from the concentrations that have been found in lipstick is even lower than what you’d get from perfectly safe drinking water. If you go searching for lead, you will find it. Laboratory tests for lead are extremely sensitive, can detect minute amounts. It’s out there. It’s not only from pollution, but naturally occurring in the earth’s crust. http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/AssessingRisk/upload/Natural-Occur-Inorg-at-AF-Bases.pdf You get more lead exposure walking down a city street than using lipstick. When you make your own cosmetics, there’s probably lead in them, because lead is everywhere. There’s no conspiracy here, except that of the people who went looking for tiny traces lead in lipstick in an effort to scare consumers. Wake up people! Trace amounts are not the same as toxic amounts! That is why we can eat table salt!

]]> By: Char http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/10/04/is-lancome-lipstick-loaded-with-lead/comment-page-1/#comment-66579 Char Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:55:41 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/10/04/is-lancome-lipstick-loaded-with-lead/#comment-66579 Wow, this is mind blowing to think that it would EVER be okay to put lead in lipstick or in any topically applied skin care product. Oh, that’s right…I forgot, were women the disposable second class citizens here. Wake up people! Find out the facts for yourself and not from someone who is obviously funded by the cosmetic companies. I manufacture my own bath and body products and laundry detergent for me and my family after my kids kept getting rashes and asthma attacks from synthetic fragrances and other garbage that the FDA says is “okay” to poison ourselves with. Our motto is “if it’s on your skin, it’s in your skin.” And yes, there definitely is something to the rubbing a gold ring on the lipstick/lip liner as well as consealers sticks and foundations thing! None of my products turn black on my skin and I find great relief in that. My family and I are aware of the FDA’s inability to keep up with contaminates in cosmetics. Do the research and find out the truth. By the way, lead in candy isn’t okay either!! Wow, this is mind blowing to think that it would EVER be okay to put lead in lipstick or in any topically applied skin care product. Oh, that’s right…I forgot, were women the disposable second class citizens here. Wake up people! Find out the facts for yourself and not from someone who is obviously funded by the cosmetic companies. I manufacture my own bath and body products and laundry detergent for me and my family after my kids kept getting rashes and asthma attacks from synthetic fragrances and other garbage that the FDA says is “okay” to poison ourselves with. Our motto is “if it’s on your skin, it’s in your skin.” And yes, there definitely is something to the rubbing a gold ring on the lipstick/lip liner as well as consealers sticks and foundations thing! None of my products turn black on my skin and I find great relief in that. My family and I are aware of the FDA’s inability to keep up with contaminates in cosmetics. Do the research and find out the truth. By the way, lead in candy isn’t okay either!!

]]> By: Marjorie http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/10/04/is-lancome-lipstick-loaded-with-lead/comment-page-1/#comment-60332 Marjorie Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:30:06 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/10/04/is-lancome-lipstick-loaded-with-lead/#comment-60332 The small amounts of lead that the majority of cosmetics companies use in their lipsticks and lip liners claim to not be harmful, but I did this trick with a Stila brand lipstick and an Arbonne brand lipstick on the same area with the same pure gold ring (both red) - the Stila lipstick showed the dark grey streak whereas the Arbonne showed none. How can you explain that if you say that rubbing the right surface will show a dark grey streak regardless of lead content?? The small amounts of lead that the majority of cosmetics companies use in their lipsticks and lip liners claim to not be harmful, but I did this trick with a Stila brand lipstick and an Arbonne brand lipstick on the same area with the same pure gold ring (both red) – the Stila lipstick showed the dark grey streak whereas the Arbonne showed none. How can you explain that if you say that rubbing the right surface will show a dark grey streak regardless of lead content??

]]> By: L http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/10/04/is-lancome-lipstick-loaded-with-lead/comment-page-1/#comment-58892 L Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:23:00 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/10/04/is-lancome-lipstick-loaded-with-lead/#comment-58892 See, funny thing about this, it's just been found out that, GUESS WHAT, there IS no SAFE amount of lead. Hmm imagine that. It's like saying, small traces of rat poison won't hurt you. Besides this fact, if you're going to wear lipstick everyday, then that "small" amount adds up even more. So regardless of how "safe" that small amount may seem, cosmetic companies lie all the time. So YES, lead is POISONOUS, lead is DANGEROUS, and IT CAN HARM YOU. My advice? DON'T USE LIPSTICK WITH LEAD IN IT. Simple. See, funny thing about this, it’s just been found out that, GUESS WHAT, there IS no SAFE amount of lead. Hmm imagine that. It’s like saying, small traces of rat poison won’t hurt you.
Besides this fact, if you’re going to wear lipstick everyday, then that “small” amount adds up even more. So regardless of how “safe” that small amount may seem, cosmetic companies lie all the time.
So YES, lead is POISONOUS, lead is DANGEROUS, and IT CAN HARM YOU. My advice? DON’T USE LIPSTICK WITH LEAD IN IT. Simple.

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