RedOrbit Staff & Wire Reports
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently tested the top 400 lipsticks and found that all of them contain trace amounts of lead.
Among the top 10 contaminated brands five are Maybelline and L’Oreal, owned by L’Oreal USA, two Cover Girl, two NARS lipsticks, and one from Stargazer, according to the FDA’s data.
The lipstick with the highest concentration of lead was Maybelline’s Color Sensational “Pink Petal” with a concentration of 7.19 parts per million. But the average concentration out of the 400 lipsticks tested was 1.11 parts per million, well below the proposed limit of 10 parts per million.
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics raised concerns to the FDA urging them to set limits to the amount of lead allowable in cosmetic products. In 2007 the campaign tested 33 lipsticks and found two-thirds of them contained lead and one-third surpassed the FDA’s lead limit for candy, according to TheSpec.com.
But the FDA finds no comparison to candy and lipstick saying, “It is not scientifically valid to equate the risk to consumers presented by lead levels in candy, a product intended for ingestion, with that associated with lead levels in lipstick, a product intended for topical use and ingested in much smaller quantities than candy.”
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