Oct 20, 2017 club meeting: Special dots in a lipstick
For all of you who wear lipstick for makeup, this may not be the brightest news to listen to as the post will talk about what lipstick consists of. See those colorful spots on the lipstick smudge? Well it turns out . . . those are different types of metals! The FDA released a study in 2009 which showed lead in every lipstick sample that was tested! The metals include lead (as stated above), beryllium, thallium, and more! According to the University of California, women put on lipstick from two to fourteen times a day, meaning a significant amount of possible lipstick ingestion! Perhaps in the future, lipsticks should be created with less harmful substances that would also substitute the large amount of metals found in lipstick. For example, Cleopatra of ancient Egypt was said to create lipstick by crushing bugs to obtain the red color!
You know, seeing this doesn't make my fear of arthropods go away at all. It looks cool tho, but this would seriously scare the living **** out of me (not to mention Halloween's coming up soon).
ReplyDeleteThanks! Would like to guess what this is? :) (Hint: It will turn into an unexpected arthropod).
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ReplyDeleteLarvae mosquito
ReplyDeleteYou're actually right it seems. Good job!!
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