Lead In Our Lipstick and Other Great Stuff
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
We’ve all heard the rumors that the average woman eats something like 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime, something which has never swayed anyone I know from buying their favorite shade. But this is just that, a rumor. Snopes.com managed to bust this legend by calculating exactly how may tubes of lipstick a person would have to go through to ingest 6 lbs of the stuff, and it was a staggering 454 to 1,512 tubes a year, and that each tube would have to be consumed in it’s entirety. No lipstick blotting, no lipstick kisses, no coffee cup smudges. So, okay, we don’t eat nearly as much lipstick as we’ve thought, but does that mean it’s still safe for us to use? (more…)
