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Lead in lipstick…. how to detect it (innovation inside !)
Here is a link (sorry it’s in French but there are pictures !) : http://www.hellocoton.fr/to/I3H8#http://unchewing-gumsouslabasket.blogspot.com/2013/12/du-plomb-dans-mes-rouges-levres.html
She explains how to detect lead in lipstick.
She says that you just have to rub you lipstick on a aluminium foil and wait 2 minutes.
Then wipe it with some coton whool.
-> if there is black marks on your coton, then your lipstick contains lead.That scares me… (not the lead, just the people believing that…)
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It’s brown, It steams, it comes out of Cowes, It isn’t the Isle of Wight ferry and is the same in any language
There are at least 10 of these going around, and the usual rate of return is every 6 months at least
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Wow, that’s amazing.
Sadly, I was at a kids science fair (as a judge) and one of the kids did a “lead in lipstick” display. She demonstrated a similar technique for detecting lead in lipstick.sigh. -
Hi Perry, How to find out which ingredients in Lipstick causing Lead?
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Generally it is the pigments which have heavy metals as impurities.
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Thankyou so much Milliachemist
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Lab analysis or XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence) is required for credible results.
XRF detectors for paint could probably be used for a lipstick film also. They have gotten much smaller and remarkably cheaper in the past few years - $5,000 - $8,000 should buy a decent one.Some companies may even rent one for a month or two, if you don’t need it permanently.
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