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aperture
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http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/ProductandIngredientSafety/ProductInformation/ucm137224.htm#expanalyses%20

Mine has 0.92 ppm of lead. Yummy [dizzy]

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aperture

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Keebler
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Thanks for sharing that link.

I had to stop wearing it years ago, it just hurt my lips. Now, I just have to be sure my lip balm is gluten-free (who would've thought?).

Eye make-up can be worse. Spray tanning is just a time bomb waiting to happen, too.

Best to check everything we put on or breathe in:
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http://www.ewg.org/

Environmental Working Group

www.rachelsfriends.org

Rachel's Friends
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Keebler
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Even if you find "lead-free lipstick" consider the hydrogenated oils and other chemicals & dyes that its made with. They can cause heart disease.

If you would not put it on a salad, don't put it on your lips. Because we do, literally, eat lipstick.

Even lipstick should not contain things in this group:
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http://flash.lymenet.org/scripts/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=029690;p=0

Excitotoxins; MSG; Aspartame; & "Natural" Flavors
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Lymetoo
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The long lasting color (and looks like the RED ones) are the worst.

Gluten is a bigger issue to me.

The FDA doesn't do SQUAT about what's in cosmetics.

[ 02-15-2012, 07:36 PM: Message edited by: Lymetoo ]

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Marz
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Thanks for posting the link. I saw a partial list in the newpaper and wondered about mine.

I've started using olive oil as a skin cream. Since skin creams are just a bunch of chemicals I've always wondered why they didn't have to list ingredients like on food labels.

I can't give up my lipstick totally though.

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aperture
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I never saw the Environmental Working Group database, that Keebler listed, before. Thanks for posting that!

Now I'm thinking, since I have the HLA dreaded genotype that makes it difficult to detox, it can't help that I'm layering on the make-up, lotions, conditioners, etc, etc, etc wihout ever thinking about what was in them.

Scary.

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Lymetoo
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Burt's Bees has some natural lip color. But I still use my Cover Girl. [bonk]

(not the ones listed above though)

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just don
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I am 100% sure mine is Gluten and Lead free!!!

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kam
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LOL JD

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Lymetoo
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Good for you, Don!! Good job!!

[Razz]

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map1131
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Brian Williams story the other night said "lipstick is not being consumed so the exposure is slight" (something to that effect).

If you're touching or exposing any part of the body or the lips to toxic stuff it is consumed.....through our largest organ, the skin.
That's our toxic world today.

I'm not a lip stick person, I was never comfortable with it on my lips. Make-up drives me nuts on my face and eyes and my face lets me know it's toxic. So rarely do I use it.

I remember when I wouldn't be caught without it.
Those days are gone....

Pam

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Keebler
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Pam,

Thanks for bringing that false assumption to our attention ["lipstick is not being consumed so the exposure is slight"]

I can't believe any seasoned report could be so short sighted, as usually he really thinks things through.

YEARS AGO, there was detail about how much lipstick winds up sort of "coating" the inside of women's blood vessels, triggering terrible damage.

It's even been linked to heart disease (but not by the mainstream, of course).

Not just from being absorbed through the lips, it is literally swallowed. It becomes food, to all intents and purposes. It does not just disappear.
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Lymetoo
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Absolutely. We swallow tons of it. Mainstream reporters are LAME. They follow the party line, so to speak.

Hi PAM!! [hi]

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jackie51
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Brian Williams seems so robotic to me. A real stick in the mud.

I can't stand the feeling of makeup or lipstick, so no worries here. I just cannot give up my deodorant though. Tried the natural stuff, bleck.

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Keebler
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You should see Brian Williams when he is not presenting the news. He's very animated and funny on talk shows as a guest.

His job does not exactly let that aspect shine - most news of the day in our world is not very funny.
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Lymetoo
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The only "make up" I wear is lipstick and mascara. The mascara is now in danger since I have Sjogren's. My eyes are really bad right now.

No deodorant here! Haven't used it in years. I smell like a fresh flower. [Cool]

I'm sure Brian Williams is a nice guy. I just hate the news coming from ABC, NBC and CBS. Robotic and all the same &%$#.

Boy, this thread is about everything!! [Big Grin]

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