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Nine. Pounds.
All grossness aside, this fact wouldn’t be so alarming if it weren’t for another: In 2007, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a division of the EWG, found two-third of lipsticks contained lead, a known neurotoxin that has been linked to brain damage and miscarriages, among other horrors.
Nine. Pounds. Containing. Lead.
That’s enough to make me sit up, take notice, and dump the contents of my makeup bags into the trash (fearful all the time that I should be disposing of the stuff as hazardous waste).
But the news has gotten better: This year, Canada banned lead in lipstick. In August of 2008, a single vote in the State Assembly barred a similar ban in California. With a new introduction of the bill on deck for 2009, the geniuses at Teens Turning Green launched a clever “Lips Against Lead” petition, in which people are encouraged to apply lead-free lipstick and kiss an organic cotton petition, that will then be sent to the Assembly when the teens show up to shame them into passing it.
Last week, Sarah Jane Morris (“Brothers and Sisters”), Katie Gill (“Drillbit Taylor”), Kristen Renton (“Days of Our Lives”), Carolyn Hennesy (“General Hospital”) and eco-lifestyle expert and author Anna Getty slicked up with organic, paraben-free Terra Firma Longevity Lip Stain in gorgeous, berry-red Rosalie to “sign” the petition at my second-annual EcoStiletto Green Girl’s Night Out at Intuition for Dress for Success.
That's me with Sarah, after doing my part and kissing the petition. After which I re-applied, licked my lips, and breathed easy.
Have you looked at the ingredients in your lipstick lately? Check your brand at www.cosmeticdatabase.com, then tell me what you think!
