Is it harmful to eat lipstick?

Lipstick comes in many colors and can be said to be the most important cosmetic for women when they put on makeup. In fact, lipstick contains chemicals. Due to long-term makeup, many women will ingest some lipstick. So, will ingesting lipstick be harmful to the human body? In fact, ingesting a small amount into the mouth will not harm the body. Today's lipsticks are strictly regulated and will not cause any harm to the body. Let's learn about it together.

Generally speaking, the amount of lipstick applied on the lips that is ingested is very small, so even if the lipstick may contain some inedible ingredients, it is far from the amount that will endanger health. Therefore, don't panic too much after "eating" lipstick. Generally, lipstick needs to undergo quality and hygiene testing. The ingredients used are basically safe, and the content of some heavy metals will be far lower than the prescribed standards.

Although lipstick generally does not harm your health after being "eaten", it does not mean that "eating" lipstick will be fine. Therefore, it is recommended that you remove your lip makeup before eating, so as to effectively avoid the embarrassment of eating all the lipstick while eating. In addition, we need to remind everyone that many girls will directly use tissues to remove lip makeup before meals, but this will actually damage the lips. The safer and more correct method is to drop water onto cotton first, then gently wipe your lips, and then rinse with clean water after the lipstick is completely removed. This can protect your lips and remove makeup quickly.

Some friends think that since it won’t have much impact after the lipstick is eaten, and removing makeup is too troublesome, they just don’t remove it. In fact, removing lipstick is not only to prevent the ingestion of some chemical components in the lipstick, but also to avoid ingesting some fine dust and particles. Because the main component of lipstick is oil, and oil has strong adsorption capacity, dust, bacteria and other tiny particles in the air can easily adsorb on lipstick and be eaten along with the lipstick. Therefore, it is best to remove lipstick before meals.