Today's lipstick is made of four basic ingredients; fats (oils), waxes, alcohol, and pigments and a few minor additives like preservatives and moisturizers. Just about every Western woman has one, and many are accompanied everywhere by them. In the office, it seems that ladies can't talk about anything else. After spending just 30 seconds with one, women look and feel refreshed and beautiful.

The exact origin of luscious lips is a town called Ur which was located outside of Babylon. The first manufactured lipstick was made by a French cosmetic company, Guerlain in 1884. At this time lipstick for everyday use was still unaccepted in the US. About 5000 years ago, to be exact, ladies would crush semi-precious stones (Yikes!), mix them with a pasty material, and smear them on their lips. Red was the color of choice. The Egyptian women used the purplish-reddish color in iodine and bromine which led to death and disease.

The pigments used can include iron oxides, dyes, pigments and additives. The color pigments contain aluminum and other metals such as lead. It's a fact of life and as a woman ages, her lips get thinner and smaller. It's not the end of the world. If a woman doesn't have the financial ability or inclination to get collagen injections, there are alternative methods to enhance and keep the lips looking desirable.

In the Islamic Age the Arab cosmetologist Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi discovered solid lipstick. But in the Mediaeval Europe the church banded the use of lipstick. One can apply lipstick on the cheeks and very nicely blend. It can be used as face paint. But above all one must put it very nicely on the lips.

The first types of lipstick were make out of crushed precious jewels, fucus-algin, iodine and bromine, and crushed carmine beetles. Depending on how often you use lipstick and how much you like to apply, it's estimated a person may ingest more than 10 kilograms over a lifetime - a significant exposure to some potentially harmful and allergenic ingredients found in that 'simple' stick of colour.

Wash and dry the jar. Then fill half of that jar with vaseline, that multipurpose petroleum jelly that every home should have. Use a clean brush to scoop some lipstick and mix it with the vaseline. For a light hint of color, a little lipstick should do the trick.

Governments in the world do not yet have any regulations for lead in lipstick, but as a reference, FDA does allow level of lead in candy is 0.1 ppm. But some famous brands lipsticks have shown to have up to 6 times that amount.

Ah, the case of the red lipstick the number one rule in finding the right red shade is simply just to try it on. The hand test doesn't work when it comes to red, so pucker up and slap some color on those lips. When wearing a bold, beautiful red lipstick, keep your eye makeup and blush minimal. second way to find that right red lipstick is to find out if you have warm, cool or neutral skin tone. There is a pretty simple test to help determine this.



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