Red lips and pinky is always yearning to many women. For the practical way, give lipstick lip color hue can be adjusted. Lipstick ladies and indeed are inseparable. But ... a recent study reported that some lipsticks contain lead. Indirectly, lead is a metal which has the potential to damage the brain health, reported by Newsmaxhealth.
Small amounts of lead to influence IQ and mental health
In an analysis conducted Underwriters Laboratories, more than 22 brands of lipstick traces of notable Americans have lead. Although the levels of lead were found still in secure categories based on the standard the Food and Drug Administration-FDA (food and drug Security Agency of the United States), a unit of consumer protection requested that no supervision is to limit the use of toxic substances in cosmetics. According to Dr. Sean Palfrey, Medical Director of the Boston Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, the slightest amount of lead, potentially endangering the IQ and mental health.
In February, the FDA issued a report 400 lipsticks on the market that have positive traces of lead. The highest number of Maybelline products in there and L ' Oréal. These findings made the protector of the consumer asks the competent authority not to rule out a public health risk due to lead in cosmetics, especially lipstick.
The long debate about lipstick
This triggered a long debate. There are authorities who say that wearing lipstick is applied only on the outside of the body, its potential for absorption of the ingested lead is very small and very slightly, so that the levels of lead in lipstick is not considered dangerous. Meanwhile Dr. Halyna Breslawec from Personal Care Products Council says, "If you are serious with your health and society, should you no longer wear lipstick,"
Surely it is difficult to eliminate the habit of women for not wearing lipstick. But the results of this research could be a reference to our increasingly careful selecting cosmetics. Do not let the desire for beautiful thus endanger health.
