by Warren Matthews of Xtend-Life

Although I have not studied the published data to see if my anecdotal ‘evidence’ is correct it has seemed to me from personal experience over many years that more Women than Men appear to suffer from Alzheimer’s. Maybe I am right, may be I’m not! Whether I am or not really doesn’t really matter in so far as the subject of this item is concerned!

What is more important is to bring to my female readers some food for thought about something that they may not have thought of but which I ponder on from time to time.

Here it is! Reflect on how much lipstick you ‘eat’ over the period of a lifetime?

Many lipsticks have nasty things in them including lead and aluminum. It is well known that aluminum contributes to Alzheimer’s so ‘eating’ the aluminum and lead in lipsticks will not be doing your brain any favors.

Lead is present in about 2/3rd’s of the top branded lipsticks. Interestingly, the big name ones seem to be the worse! For example, Revlon, L’Oreal, Christian Dior and so on! Concentrations of lead can be as high as 0.65ppm.

Now think about how many lipsticks you use in a year? Then multiply this by the number of years you have been using the lipsticks and imagine them in a single pile? What happened to them? Well, you ate them! Hmmm…not a nice thought eh? Add to that the other chemicals in them and you have to wonder what it may have done to your nervous system over the years.

Now, I am not raising this to try and frighten you, but rather to increase your awareness and perhaps be a bit more selective about what brands you buy in future.

A survey has been carried out to determine the amount of lead in lipsticks. Some don’t have any, but others have a lot. You may find the results surprising. You can see how the various lipsticks fared. Check it out and see where your favorite lipstick is listed. You can see it by clicking here: http://cosmeticsdatabase.com/browse.php?category=lipstick&&showmore=products&start=820 Jump to the ones that got a score of 9…