There are two classic rumors about lipstick that many girls often hear or pass on to each other as follows:

– Gold can test for lead.

– Using too much lipstick causes dark lips

Plump, rosy or dark lips depend on many different reasons and the amount of lead in lipstick cannot be the only cause.

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In the past few years, when the FDA published a list of lead concentrations in more than 400 tested lipstick samples, it caused a panic among women and a series of new rumors were born:– Expensive lipsticks like Chanel

Let’s decode each rumor with ELLE:

1. Gold absolutely cannot test for lead in lipstick!

It’s very simple. If it could be tested, scientists and experts in the laboratory wouldn’t have to waste time measuring the amount of lead in lipstick.

2. Dark lips are caused by lipstick?

This is completely wrong!

– Do not regularly exfoliate your lips

– If you don’t remove makeup from your lips carefully, there will be excess lipstick left on your lips

– Lack of water and nutrients in the body also causes lips to become peeling and darker than usual

– Smoking also makes lips less fresh.

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3. The price and brand of a lipstick are completely unrelated to the level of lead in the lipstick.

You can see that in the list of lead-containing lipsticks given by the FDA, there are high-end lipsticks that are still ranked high in lead and vice versa, there are popular lipsticks that are very low in lead ranked at the bottom of the list.

Besides, just because a beauty cosmetics brand `unfortunately` has a lipstick line containing a lot of lead does not necessarily mean that all other lipstick lines are like that.

4.  Lipstick color and quality of lipstick are not related to the amount of lead

Many girls mistakenly believe that the longer the lipstick lasts and the darker the color, the higher the lead content.

You should know, the maximum lead limit allowed by the FDA in cosmetics is 20ppm (20 parts per million), while the lipstick with the highest lead on the FDA list is only 7.19ppm, lipstick with about less than 1ppm can be considered.

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