Editorial: Lead in our lipstick? Mercury in mascara? That's got to stop
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Jan 14, 2020
3 minutes
Last year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it had found asbestos contamination in eye shadow, face powder and glitter products sold at Claire's and Justice, two retailers popular with teens and young women. Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that can be found in talc. But if asbestos is inhaled, it can lodge in the lungs and do permanent damage, including causing malignant mesothelioma and other forms of cancer. Needless
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