Lead in Lipstick

Not sure if you saw this article about lead in lipstick or not, so I thought I would pass it along....You can read the entire article by clicking here.

Lipsticks Contain Lead
ATLANTA (Reuters) -- Lipsticks tested by a U.S. consumer rights group found that more than half contained lead and some popular brands including Cover Girl, L'Oreal and Christina Dior had more lead than others, the group said.

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 percent 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 & Drug Administration's 0.1 ppm limit for lead in candy -- a standard established to protect children from ingesting lead, the group said.

"Lead builds up in the body over time and lead-containing lipstick applied several times a day, every day, can add up to significant exposure levels. The latest studies show there is no safe level of lead exposure," said Dr. Mark Mitchell, president of the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice.


If you want to see how your own lipsticks fare, check out the Skin Deep website.