What colour lead are you wearing?

First there's the China crap to worry about... now this?
It just amazes me how mindless people can be sometimes. No, seriously, don't get offended just listen for a minute. Makeup...

You just put it on your face and body, some of you every day others once in a while. Either way, how many times since you've started wearing makeup have you asked yourself what's that eye shadow made of? How does my skin cream get that golden glitter? What makes the red in my lipstick? What's inside my perfume, my body scrub, my exfoliating cream, my shave gel, my foundation, etc...

I was like that myself until I was made to see things from a different perspective.

Read this article from the Seattle Time about the FDA's discovery of lead in over 30 major lipstick brands.

The list of names shocked me, Burt's Bees??? WTF? They're supposed to be health and environment conscious. So what's lead doing in my Burt's Bees Lip Shimmer?

First we find out the active ingredient in deodorant is aluminum, then our cats and dogs are dying because the wheat gluten in their cat food is fermented using melamine (yes, the stuff your countertops are made of!), now lead is the main bulking agent in most red lipsticks! Geez people. Doesn't anybody give a s#@% anymore? How far will the motto "What they don't know won't hurt them" takes us? Obviously what we don't know IS HURTING US.

Look at how many kids have deadly food allergies now compared to when I was a kid (and that wasn't too long ago BTW :-)) Look at the mysterious increase in childhood fibromyalgia, MS, Lupus, and autism. Coincidence? Are you really sure about that?

Just think for a minute here, since the early 1900's we've invented new conveniences like plastic and rubber and began sanitizing the hell out of everything using powerful chemicals like chlorine and ammonia. Almost everything is petroleum based inclusing American's oldest most trusted moisturizer and the US Army's moisturizer of choice...Vaseline!

Didn't anybody care to ask if this would pose health risks decades later? What would happen to the human body if exposed to microscopic levels of toxins on a daily basis over 5 decades? I guess we're starting to find out now. Look at us, obese and can't lose it, lethargic, foggy headed, tired, guilt ridden, depressed drones with information overload...that's what we've become my friends.

Since you can't stop the world because you want to get off. You can at least educate yourself so you can start to exercise your "choose" muscle instead of continuing to use your "follow" muscle.