Come back down to earth

Ditch the chemicals and turn to the increasing number of lipsticks made with natural products.

OF ALL beauty products, lipstick is the one we should care the most about. Not what colour it is, or what the texture is like, but what’s in it. After all, it’s estimated that the average woman eats about four lipsticks in a lifetime.

And yet most of us slather on lipsticks without giving them a second thought, despite their abundance of colourants, acetate, parabens, wax, oils and, in the US, pig fat. That’s not to mention the fragrance that goes with most lipsticks — that strange, artificial, synthetic scent.