Is Your Lipstick Poisoning You with Lead?

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has just released a report on the safety of lipsticks sold in stores in 2007.  This report found that 61% of the top selling brands of lipstick sold were found to have some level of lead.  The amounts ranged from 0.03 to 0.65 ppm (parts per million).  The FDA has no limit on lead levels in lipsticks but recently designated that candy should have no more than 0.10 ppm of lead due to possible lead toxicity in children leading to learning and language disabilities.  Over 1/3 of the lipsticks tested in the study went over the FDA level set for an ingestible food. The most contaminated brands were L'Oreal, Cover Girl and Christian Dior.  It seems that price had no impact on the results of the testing, drugstore brands and more expensive brands both had the same likelihood of having high lead levels in the lipsticks. 

Lead is a documented neurotoxin and accumulated amounts in women who then become pregnant can easily transfer through the placenta and affect the developing brain of the fetus.  Lead is not easily excreted by the body and thus accumulates in your organs such as liver, kidneys, brain and joints.  Many of my patients are astounded at the amounts of lead they excrete in a urine heavy metal challenge test and ask me where they might have gotten this heavy metal.  Lipstick can be one of the answers, in addition to water, paint dust, pollution, children's toys etc.  Some known effects of lead include:

• the nervous system leading to things like anxiety and depression
• the articular system leading to arthritis
• the muscles leading to fibromyalgia
• the blood vessels leading to hypertension (high blood pressure)
• the brain leading to memory loss and focusing problems
   

Find out if your cosmetics are safe

The Environmental Working Group developed a cosmetic database which tests and rates common cosmetics and household products for safety.  This database is very useful for you to research your commonly used cosmetics, lotions, perfumes etc. to ascertain your exposure level and to learn more about what you may be inadvertently putting into your body.

For the full report published by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, you can download and read a copy of "A Poison Kiss" from their website.

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NEW PRODUCT TESTS FIND LEAD IN LIPSTICK

Top brands L’Oreal, Cover Girl and Christian Dior test positive for lead

Boston – Toys made in China aren’t the only products laced with dangerous heavy metals: lipstick manufactured in the United States and used daily by millions of American women also contains surprisingly high levels of lead, according to new product tests released today by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. The lead tests were conducted by an independent laboratory over the month of September on red lipsticks bought in Boston, Hartford, Conn., San Francisco and Minneapolis. Top findings include:

More than half of 33 brand-name lipsticks tested (61 percent) contained detectable levels of lead, with levels ranging from 0.03 to 0.65 parts per million (ppm). None of these lipsticks listed lead as an ingredient.

One-third of the tested lipsticks exceeded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 0.1 ppm limit for lead in candy – a standard established to protect children from directly ingesting lead. Lipstick products, like candy, are directly ingested into the body. Nevertheless, the FDA has not set a limit for lead in lipstick, which fits with the disturbing absence of FDA regulatory oversight and enforcement capacity for the $50 billion personal care products industry.

The good news is that the tests show it is possible to make lipstick without lead: 39 percent of lipsticks tested had no detectable levels of lead, and cost doesn’t seem to be a factor. Some less expensive brands such as Revlon ($7.49) had no detectable levels of lead, while the more expensive Dior Addict brand ($24.50) had higher levels than some other brands.

Among the top brands testing positive for lead were:
-L’Oreal Colour Riche “True Red” – 0.65 ppm
-L’Oreal Colour Riche “Classic Wine” – 0.58 ppm
-Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor “Maximum Red” – 0.56 ppm
-Dior Addict “Positive Red” – 0.21 ppm

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First, kids dying from lead in toys. Now, they find high levels of lead in lipsticks. What's next - lead in food? Are women going to start dying now too from using lipstick too much?

Freaky!

I have read a detailed report about it at:
http://www.myproductalert.com/lead-in-lipsticks.html