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by bellker from Bloggers Town California

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Ok ladies, cross dressers and other folks who wear lipstick, makeup and the like. Ever wonder why lipstick taste nasty and is hard to get out of your man's white shirt?

Do you really know what’s in the products you put on your lips, your face or kiss off your woman’s lips and neck…   

READ ON....

Lips with various shades of lipstick applied.

This issue is all over the news these days and the radio.

The Romans and ancient Egyptians used cosmetics containing mercury.

Women of Roman Britain used a foundation made from animal fat, starch and tin oxide.

Lipstick is known to have been used around 5000 years ago in ancient Babylon, when semi-precious jewels were crushed and applied to the lips and occasionally around the eyes.

Ancient Egyptians extracted purplish-red dye from fucus-algin, 0.01% iodine, and some bromine mannite, which resulted in serious illness.

Cleopatra had her lipstick made from crushed carmine beetles, which gave a deep red pigment, and ants for a base.

WHAT INGREDIENTS ARE IN MAKEUP NOW-A-DAYS?

Red colour of modern lipstick comes from synthetically derived pure iron oxide (a component of rust). Synthetic colours are listed in the ingredients as a code and may contain up to 10 parts per million of lead / 3 parts per million of arsenic.

Castor oil and its derivatives called "non-comedogenic".

Cerebrosides (cells from the nervous systems of cattle or swine) were used in some high-end skin-care products to increase moisture retention and to create a smooth skin surface. YUCK!

Strong red colours for eye products have been produced using the dye carmine, made from carminic acid extracted from the crushed bodies of the cochineal insect.  BUGS, I HATE BUGS!

Pearlescence, also sometimes spelled as "pearl essence", is a shine or gloss effect. It is a shimmery substance found on fish scales, usually obtained from herring and one of many by-products of commercial fish processing. YUCK!

Some controversy over the presence of these ingredients are looming. Especially since makeup worn on the lips is not just absorbed through the skin, but also swallowed with drinking, eating, kissing, etc.

The product is really cheap to make, yet the mark up is more than 30%, hence a tub of lipstick may cost a manufacting company 10 cents to make it in bulk. By the time it's packaged and in the store to sell to you, the costs is any where from $5.00 - 30.00 dollars a tube depending on if a designer or celebrity's name is on the package.

And think you are kissing crushed bugs or fish scales, lead.. Ah man..... owwweeee 

What’s your thoughts….

Let’s blog…

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LATINAWOMAN read my blog view my photos
Nov 14, 2007 | 9:50 AM

Good Wednesday morning bellker ! These days it seems as though everything is bad for you . I chose to wear lipstick . I wear it every day . I don't smoke , I eat a pretty healthy diet , damn there has to be something I can enjoy . I like the way I look and feel with a brownish tone to my lips . My boyfriend would rather I didn't wear it , but who cares .

_Bella_ read my blog view my photos
Nov 14, 2007 | 11:02 AM

Hi...I read your post to Rick Dickert about flying while you sleep...I also read your blogs on ghosts etc., A dark shadow lived in my house as a child and it was evil. But that was then.....anyway, I was interested in your dreams...also as a child I flew out of my body all the time...out the window and into the night I loved it, I would go everywhere...I miss it. What was that?

LATINAWOMAN read my blog view my photos
Nov 14, 2007 | 12:00 PM

So back to lipstick . I have found that the cheaper or less expensive lipsticks stay longer and actually stain the lips , I go cheap ! If I'm at the river I use plain ol Chap-stick , I think I'm addicted to keeping my lips moist . Kissable.....

sharyan read my blog
Nov 14, 2007 | 5:53 PM

I don't wear lipstick but I do wear lip gloss. I wonder if lip gloss is just as bad as lipstick. Is make up a want or a need? Is wearing make up worth the health risk? In my opinion make up is a want. Woman want to enhance there natural beauty. LOL! I guess it is worth the health risk because we continue to wear it. LOL! I don't know anyone that became ill from wearing make up. Until it effects us personally we will continue to shine our kisser with color...

sharyan read my blog
Nov 14, 2007 | 6:02 PM

Ah! Bellker we are just eating a little protein. Fish and bugs are protein.....Umm! Lead.... well, now that is scary.

Mochalatte read my blog view my photos
Nov 14, 2007 | 6:08 PM

It's good au-naturale..In fact I prefer it. Thanks for the info..

tedtug read my blog
Nov 14, 2007 | 9:41 PM

Lol bellker, haven't you noticed all the samples at Macy's, Nordstrom's, etc just waiting for anybody to pick them up and use them? What's worse is that this particular investigation didn't point out that human feces has also been found in make-up at all the malls. This is why we're having e-coli outbreaks even in our food, and MRSA, It's all from contamination due to human feces.

nosy4 read my blog
Nov 15, 2007 | 8:05 AM

Thank You for the info,I will pass it on.

LATINAWOMAN read my blog view my photos
Nov 15, 2007 | 11:51 AM

tedbug you are lying ! Funny though and gross !

samo714 read my blog view my photos
Nov 15, 2007 | 12:31 PM

wow, we give women the world, and they give up lead poisoning and curshed bugs. hmm does it seem fair???

i think girls should stop wearing make up. i think girls look better without it. stop using it as a crutch. be happy with who you are.

bellker read my blog view my photos
Nov 15, 2007 | 3:35 PM

Latina, better not let your honey know about this blog, he may not kiss you after that...

bellker read my blog view my photos
Nov 15, 2007 | 3:36 PM

Hey Bella

I wonder what the folks on Ricks blog was going to say about my flying around and about outside my body...

I would love to talk to your more about dreams..

So where shall we start... go for it...

bellker read my blog view my photos
Nov 15, 2007 | 3:37 PM

Chapstick is good..

bellker read my blog view my photos
Nov 15, 2007 | 3:38 PM

It's men's faught right... if the men did not want BEAUTIFUL women then women wouldn't care how they looked and would not wear face paint... Right? or is it Right?

bellker read my blog view my photos
Nov 15, 2007 | 3:40 PM

owwwww, Ted, nah I didn't know that... abouthe human faces being in the make up... Wow....

You're welcome Nosy... any time...

hey Samo, I think that make up has been around for so long that the youngins can't wait to get to age where they can also wear makeup... It is a female coming of age thing, I think... don't you.

tedtug read my blog
Nov 15, 2007 | 8:17 PM

EXCUSE ME Latinawoman, I AM NOT LYING.

Where do you suppose e-coli outbreaks come from? they come from the bacteria in human feces. Where do you think this 'super bug' Marsa, or medically named MRSA comes from? From the same bacteria found in human poop. Bottom line, people don't wash their hands properly.

Think about it, a shopper goes to the mall, uses the public restrooms, doesn't wash their hands properly, or at all, and then they go use the make up. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out.

Why do you think sicknesses are so rampant and widespread? Colds are passed from one to another by not washing hands properly or sneezing into the air.

bellker read my blog view my photos
Nov 16, 2007 | 2:21 PM

ouch... e-coil... see, ted, seriously, I didn't know that....

This is too deep.

Learn something new every day, and here I was thinking I was teaching somebody something... ha, jokes on me...

tedtug read my blog
Nov 16, 2007 | 2:31 PM

Well Bellker, it makes total sense.

Take a look at all those pre-made salads from certain companies like Dole. They've been recalled because of e-coli found within the veggies. You have these farmers who are out in the fields all day long, every now and then when nature calls they just have to go where they're at. It's all food contamination. People think that e-coli and MRSA are viruses. They're not, they're BACTERIA from within humans. It's only spread through contamination by uncleanliness. That's why MRSA is commonly found within hospitals. You have whole lot of sick people, janitors, housekeepers who are unclean.
Why do you think it's becoming more common in salons where people are getting infections on their nails and fingers and toes. Because the tools used are not properly cleaned. Right then and there you're spreading fungus and feces and more and more bacteria.

tedtug read my blog
Nov 16, 2007 | 2:38 PM

wait a minute bellker, I just read one of your replies; men are at fault? No honey, I don't think so.

Ok, relationships are 1st based on physical attration, so it's natural that women want to look pretty and presentable. But you cannot certainly blame MEN for other people's uncleanliness. When you go to the any bathroom (public, private, at work, at your friends house) do you not wash your hands? How long do you wash your hands? Do you use soap?
Some of those questions may sound absurd, because after all it's just common sense to be clean, but the fact is most people are pigs and they just wet their hands for 5 seconds.
The other day I went with a couple of friends to a Carl's Jr in my neighborhood. We all observed how the housekeeper was going around emptying trash cans, cleaning tables, and mopping the floor WITHOUT USING GLOVES. Then she went, and I guess because they were short on staff (I really don't know), she actually went to the kitchen and started preparing food!! WITHOUT WASHING HER HANDS!!! Immediately we walked out, as I was walking out the manager asked why we were leaving. Can you imagine that?!!

bellker read my blog view my photos
Nov 16, 2007 | 2:40 PM

You're right about the Dole salads and veggies... I know because of this I stopped buying salads... Oh my word!!!

Now tht you mention it, I do remember the news about the uncleanliness of that it was spreading. I remember them emphasizing washing of the hands often too.

And the fingers and toes, Dayummmmmmm... you know for a while there I use to encouage my family and friends to take their own implements to the salon and use them to get thier toes and nails done.... I don't remember why other than remembering that people had infection so bad under their nails that it turned black and blue... Jezzzz Loussseeee

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