Lipstick & Lead

I read once that the average women consumes between 5 and 10 pounds of lipstick in a lifetime. The lipstick has to go somewhere when it eventually "comes off". In October of 2007, the campaign for safe cosmetics tested 33 popular brands of lipsticks at an independent lab for lead content. The results? 61 percent of lipsticks contained lead, with levels ranging up to 0.65 parts per million.(http://www.safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=223)

Then last year, The Food and Drug Administration released a follow-up study that found lipstick lead levels ranging from 0.009 to 3.06 ppm. All the leading brands are to blame: Cover Girl, L'Oreal, The Body Shop, Maybelline and Revlon. There is no safe level of lead exposure. The FDA has yet to respond to protect consumers. Be careful ladies!