What are the ingredients in lipstick?

I am doing a report for school and I am wondering what the ingredients for lipstick.What are the ingredients in lipstick?
Depends on the brand but can be: wax, oil, petroleum, water, fish scales are used for shine and color sometimes.What are the ingredients in lipstick?
Mary Kay Lipstick Ingredients: Castor Oil, Oleyl Oleate, Candelilla Wax, Beeswax, Ozokerite, Diisostearyl Dimer Dilinoleate, Silica, Methyl Glucose Sesquistearate, Carnauba wax, Lanolin, Isodecyl Neopentanoate, Butyl Stearate, Apricot Kernel Oil, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Tocopherol, Soybean Oil, Fragrence, and may contain Mica, Titanium Dioxide, Iron oxides, Red 6 Lake, Red 7 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Red 27 Lake, Red 6, Blue 1 lake, Red 33 Lake, Aluminum Hydroxide, Red 30 Lake, Carmine, Red 28 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake, Bismuth Oxychloride, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Palmitic Acid, Tin Oxide, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Butylparaben.





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Acid is what turns your lips red, but it is bright orange until it reacts with your lips, burning the color into place. A different dye is added to make the lipstick appear red in the tube. (Which means that the color in the tube has little to nothing to do with the color that ends up on your lips.)





To spread the acid: castor oil, soap, wax.





To keep it from going rancid: food preservatives.





To make it glisten: ammonia-soaked fish scales.





If this is for a school project, you should ALWAYS list your source- random people on the internet don't count.





You might also see if you can find a more recent source- 1986 is mighty old for a reference.





Trust me- I'm a children's librarian.





Good luck!





-K
dont know
Wax, Iron, Artificial colors ect.
Well it depends on the brand why don't you just go too a drug store or sephora and read the ingrediants?





Well I know lipstick contains fish scales....





Lip stick contains....





The major elements of lipstick are wax, oil, alcohol, and pigment. Wax comes in three kinds, either beeswax, camauba wax or candelilla wax. Camauba is the more expensive wax so expect the lipstick which has this to be more costly than the others. Wax is used to form the lipstick mixture into the usual shape of the product





More common oils used for lipstick ingredients are mineral oil, caster oil, lanolin, or vegetable oil. The oil is added to the wax. The wax and oil generally makes up about 60 percent of the total weight of the lipstick. This is just an approximation since some manufacturers may give or take some percentage depending on the type of lipstick to be made.





Other key lipstick ingredients are fragrance and pigment. These are also added to the lipstick once the wax and oils are melted. The alcohol is used as a solvent for the wax and the oil while fragrance is for the scent of the lipstick. It does not even amount to more than 1 percent of the lipstick weight.





The pigment or dye is the key ingredient to any lipstick. This is the determining factor of the color of the lipstick. Various kinds of colors and tones are used to manufacture a lipstick tube. The more popular pinks and reds and nudes all need different kinds of lipstick ingredients to make them the color that the designer wants. Most pigments are derived from plants while others are chemical mixes.





Preservatives and antioxidants are also included in the lipstick ingredients because these prevent the lipstick from turning rancid. The ingredients above are the more common lipstick ingredients that one may find. Other manufacturers may add some other ingredient to make the lipstick more smooth or make it shimmer or more glossy. It is up to the laboratory to find which ingredients may make the lipstick into these. Other designers also require their lipstick to be made from all natural ingredients.





hope I helped! have fun with your report =-)
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