Re: I looked at the lipstick one....

http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.1650/pub_detail.asp


Origin of the Scare: The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics (an environmentalist group) published a report this year entitled The Poison Kiss . They purchased more than 30 lipsticks in four cities and sent them to a lab for lead testing. More than half came back with detectable levels of lead. The group sent out a press release, which said that one-third of the tested lipsticks exceeded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 0.1 ppm limit for lead in candy – a standard established to protect children from directly ingesting lead.(1) There was no standard for lipstick, so they used the lead limit for candy instead.

~ummm.... I fail to see how I am to be comforted by the fact that there is no lead standard for lipstick....and the fact that they used the candy standard does not turn The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics into a fear-mongerer, in my mind... and, I think that we women eat a lot of lipstick, too...