Wearing lipstick? Careful, more than half the brands on the market were recently found to contain lead.This according to a new report from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, highlighted in a post on our partner site, Green Daily. The study actually found lead in 61% of the lipsticks they tested, and in one third of those cases, the products contained more lead than what the FDA allows in candy, which, seeing as lipstick gets ingested, is pretty gross.
Because the FDA doesn’t have a set limit for lead in lipstick, there’s no incentive for companies to keep it out of their products, much less tell you if it’s in there in the first place. Subsequently, it’s hard for consumers to tell what’s safe and what’s not since popular brand names like Cover Girl, L’Oreal and Christian Dior were implicated.
The good news is that you can see the full report, including the amount of lead the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics found in each lipstick on the organization’s website.
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