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....
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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