Poison Kisses - Lead in Lipstick

[KimberlyS]

This is an interesting report for CDers and all GG's.

http://www.safecosmetics.org/your_health/poisonkiss.cfm

[DonnaT]

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/lipstick.asp

[KimberlyS]

Donna thanks for the link. I do think it is interesting how some of these action groups blow things out of proportion to get attention. They usually have real and legitimate concerns but they often blow they way out of the reality. Going back to this link I found their fully test results. 33 tubes of lipstick is not a good statistical sample and they were probably bias in what they picked.

It is interesting reading some of the real research that is being done on different trace minerals, particles, chemicals, and ingredients in products we use and consume. There is some interesting correlations starting to show up. I have discussed this with my BIL who is a research biologist and some others doing the research. They agree some of the current and future research is looking to show some interesting relationships to how humans have changed due to our daily environments the the past few generations. And relationships to things like cancer and other illnesses.

Good research does not blurt out their results but does more research to check and eliminate other affects of how the research was performed.

Some of the research is scary. Like how we used lead, asbestos, and other things in the past only to find out what they did later. We as people today really are living a huge laboratory experiment.

[Tekla]

Most of the limits on toxins in products are set by the producers, not the consumers. So who knows? After all the big tobacco companies are still trying to say that smoking doesn't harm anyone.

Second, most of the products listed are not American made. Interesting.

[SilverLady(SO)]

Most of the limits on toxins in products are set by the producers, not the consumers.

Not quite so, Tekla . . . the limits of toxins are actually set by the FDA and other government entities and not the producers of those products, and hardly ever the consumers themselves (except as the end result of nation-wide class action lawsuits). I know this for a fact from my paralegal days while doing not only vaccine litigation but products liability and medical malpractice. Before you ask, yes, I worked for both plaintiff and defense law firms, so I do know both sides to the story.

In general, the problem occurs when companies try to bypass our governmental regulations by first outsourcing the production of those products to other countries, and then buying them from yet another company and importing them to the US . . . and that's just the 'tip of the iceberg.'

- SL

[Carol Ann]

One of these fine days we will stop outsourcing and put Americans back to work and have that label that said "Made in America".