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Friday, October 12, 2007

One more reason to use Revlon!

Unsafe lead levels have been found in lipstick - the reapplication and ingestion of which happens multiple times a day for regular lipstick wearers. According to a story on Yahoo News:

"One-third of the lipsticks tested contained an amount of lead that exceeded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's 0.1 ppm limit for lead in candy -- a standard established to protect children from ingesting lead, the group said. Thirty-nine percent of the lipsticks tested had no discernible lead, it said.

The coalition said that some less expensive brands it had tested, such as Revlon, had no detectable levels of lead, while the more expensive Dior Addict brand had higher levels than some other brands."

So YAY Revlon - cruelty AND lead free!