What are the dangers of fake lipstick?

The darker the lipstick color, the higher the heavy metal content

The so-called fake lipstick refers to inferior quality lipstick. For some unscrupulous merchants, they often pass off inferior products as good ones. Such lipsticks often contain excessive amounts of heavy metals, especially lead metal. If such lipsticks are used frequently, some heavy metals will enter the stomach and blood. In the long run, it is easy to cause the occurrence of some diseases, and even induce tumors, which is particularly harmful to the health of the body.

Beware of the 7 major hazards of lipstick to women's health

1. The main ingredients of lipstick are lanolin, wax and dyes. Due to the complex composition of lanolin, it is easy to cause allergic reactions, such as chapped and peeling lip mucosa, and sometimes itchy or slight pain in the lips.

2. The lanolin in lipstick has strong adsorption capacity and can adsorb dust, bacteria, viruses and some heavy metal ions in the air onto the lip mucosa. When people drink water or eat food, they can bring lipstick and the harmful substances on it into their mouths and enter the body directly.

3. The coal tar dyes used in all lipsticks are terrible carcinogens, and the amount of this substance contained in lipsticks has far exceeded the amount allowed in food. After putting on lipstick, it is inevitable that the lipstick will be licked off and enter the human body unintentionally while talking, drinking tea or eating.

4. According to relevant foreign data, among young female cancer patients, 18.2% of the causes are related to lipstick. Lipstick contains high amounts of heavy metals such as lead and cadmium. Lead is cumulative. Long-term inhalation by the human body may lead to chronic lead poisoning, causing anemia, abdominal pain, acute renal failure, and brain neuropathy.

5. Preservatives and antioxidants BHA. These substances have been proven to be quasi-carcinogens. For example, preservatives (parabens) can cause breast tumors.

6. Artificial pigments in lipstick may turn into mutagens and cause cancer under ultraviolet light.

7. Sweet-smelling lipsticks contain saccharin, which has been proven to cause cancer if consumed in excess.

The darker the lipstick color, the higher the heavy metal content

Studies have found that lipsticks loved by women all over the world contain a variety of trace toxic metals, among which aluminum has the highest content.

A study published in Environmental Health Perspectives by Professor Celine Hammond of the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of California said that they analyzed 24 lip glosses and 8 brands of lipstick and found that in addition to the well-known aluminum, they also contained eight heavy metals: cadmium, cobalt, aluminum, titanium, manganese, chromium, copper and nickel. Aluminum, chromium and manganese have the highest content among all the metals detected.