Something to consider next time you go shopping for lipstick... This comes from someone who works in the breast cancer unit at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto. If there is a female you care anything about, share this with her. I did. Recently a lipstick brand called "Red Earth" decreased their prices from $67 to $9.90. It contained lead. Lead is a chemical which causes cancer.

The lipstick Brands that contain lead are:

1. CHRISTIAN DIOR

2. LANCOME

3. CLINIQUE

4. Y.S.L

5. ESTEE LAUDER

6. SHISEIDO

7. RED EARTH (Lip Gloss)

8. CHANEL (Lip Conditioner)

9. MARKET AMERICA-MOTNES LIPSTICK.

The higher the lead content, the greater the chance of causing cancer. After doing a test on lipsticks, it was found that the Y.S.L. lipstick contained the most amount of lead. Watch out for those lipsticks which are supposed to stay on longer. If your lipstick stays on longer, it is because of the higher content of lead.

Here is the test you can do yourself:

1. Put some lipstick on your hand.

2. Use a Gold ring to scratch on the lipstick.

3. If the lipstick colour changes to black, then you know the lipstick contains lead.

Be Smart everyone! When u buy a product, quality is very important.

Please send this information to all your girlfriends, wives and female family members. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre Dioxin Carcinogens cause cancer, especially breast cancer!   

You do know what an urban legend is right? Hey did you know if you forward this email from Bill Gates he will send you 1 billion dollars???? Your going to have all the girls on this site tossing out there lipstick.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_lead_in_lipstick.htm

Thank you to share na ka...Really good to know and such a shame for the big brand that their stuff so expensive didn't try to stop this.I think i need to do the test for MAC lipsticks now as the only brand i use hehe...

Netlore Archive: Email hoax claims that popular brands of lipstick contain 'cancer-causing' lead but that consumers can test for its presence by scratching a specimen with a 24K gold ring

Comments: False. Despite the fact that this message has circulated continuously since May 2003, no reliable data has surfaced anywhere to support its claims. A search of medical journal articles internationally and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's online database yielded nothing -- no research, no warnings, no references of any kind - suggesting that hazardous amounts of lead can be found in any name-brand lipstick.

Reporter Tessa C. Mauricio of the Manila Times researched this rumor in June 2003 and found it to be baseless as well. As part of her investigation, she handed a list of the raw ingredients found in common lipstick brands to a chemist, who told her that lead wasn't present in any of them. The "gold ring test" is bogus too, Mauricio's source said, and wouldn't be capable of detecting the presence of lead in the products even if they did contain it.

thanks for wonderful inf. is revlon hv it?

boy this gives a new meaning of the kiss of death...