Adding a touch of lipstick to your outfit will add some color to your face and can even accentuate your smile. However, that glamour comes with a price. The average woman will ingest about 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime. That’s a whole lot of unnatural ingredients to process in your body! To help you understand a bit more in what lipstick is made out of, here are some of the harmful ingredients you will come across in the product.

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Non-Toxic Beauty: Do You Know What’s In Your Lipstick?

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