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!
I thought it was a dragonfly :/ How'd you catch the mosquito?
ReplyDeleteOh I didn't! Mosquitoes lay their eggs in ponds and rivers so I was able to look at the larvae by catching some that were in a puddle! The larvae eventually grew to mosquitoes so I was able to view them as well.
DeleteHmm...so it was an arthropod. Not as annoying as a spider, but still not my favorite animal to be around.
ReplyDeleteIt's alright! I'm sure many people will agree with you... especially after they wake up with red welts all over their body!
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