Is it true that a woman eats up to 4 kg of lipstick for life?

The belief is widespread that up to 4 kg of this decorative cosmetics falls in the female body, and a little less in the male. We decided to check if this is really so.

Information that a woman eats For his own life Big quantity labial Lipsticks, Can find like in Media, and on various forums. Especially often this "part of the diet" of a woman Discuss on sites About cosmetics and makeup. Moreover, the named volumes vary - from 4 to 15 kg for life. For men usually numbers Less - "just" up to 3 kg. Although there are also paradoxical numbers: for example, Lookatme resource claimsthat a woman eats 4-6 kg, and a man - twice as much.

Lipstick is one of the oldest cosmetic products. In the excavations of the Sumerian city of the UR in the burials of wealthy citizens archaeologists discovered The prototype of modern lipstick is the sash of shells filled with a coloring substance. Presumably, lip coloring popularized Puabi - The ruler who lived about 4500 years ago (according to other sources, priestess) of this city. Her lipstick included white lead and chopped red stones, and later recipes included a wine precipitate, dyes obtained from mollusks and plants, antimony, cinnabar and ocher. Initially, both women and men used lipstick, and the painted lips were considered a demonstration of high status. After the tradition of the tradition of painting lips into Egypt, the lipstick palette became wider-they began to actively use orange, purple and blue-black shades. In medieval Europe, discreet colors are becoming popular - pink and lilac. Thanks to the English Queen Elizabeth I, in the second half of the 16th century, a lip pencil appeared. A real fondant revolution It happenedWhen Maurice Levy came up with a lipstick in a metal tube in 1915, making the application as convenient as possible. Now in the market represented A huge range of lip cosmetics, in addition to lipsticks, are liquid shine, varnishes, tints, flamers, shimmers and fins.

For further calculations, we will use the minimum amount of supposedly eaten lipstick indicated in popular sources - 4 kg for women and 3 kg for a man, as well as all calculations in relation to modern Russian realities. The factor from the American Snopes project, having studied the brands of lipstick popular in the world market, They came To the conclusion that the average tube contains 3 g of lipstick itself and is enough for about 410 application. To eat 4 kg of lipstick for the life, a woman needs to use at least 1333 tubes for life. Suppose that the girl begins to use decorative cosmetics at 17 (many Training institutions In Russia, contrary to legislation, forbid minors to wear makeup) and is painted all their lives (the expected life expectancy for women in the Russian Federation in 2022 Compiled 77.8 years). In total, this conditional Russian woman has 60.8 years for the active use of cosmetics. In order to eat 4 kg of lipstick during this time, every year a woman should buy at least 22 tubes. At the same time, absolutely all of the applied lipstick should be lipped from the lips and swallowed, but not left on the dishes, cutlery or lips of the partner and not washed off with a remedy for removing makeup. If you make an amendment and for this, then you will have to buy much more than 22 tubes annually.

Since each tube is about 410 lipsticks, 1333 tubes per life are approximately 546,500 application. In order to eat 4 kg of lipsticks for the life of a conditional Russian woman, you need to paint your lips about 9,000 times, and on average 24.5 times (that is, almost every hour, if you start an alarm clock for applying makeup at night, or every 40 minutes, if eight hours are given sleep). You need to paint with such intensity without missing a single day, even when a woman is sick, on vacation or stayed at home on her weekend. Moreover, not a single milligrams of applied cosmetics should get past the stomach. 

Even if a woman begins to paint even at school age (for example, at 14 years old), lives for a long time (for example, up to 84 years) and all this time she regularly paints lips, the use of 4 kg of lipstick seems to be a rather difficult task, even if he purposefully strives to achieve it. Over the course of her 70-year “career”, such a woman should buy at least 19 tubes of lipstick annually, paint lips at least 21 times a day and eat all the lipsticks used in this way. 

Now let's deal with a conditional Russian who accidentally eats lipstick from his partnership lips. Suppose that until the age of 17 he kisses exclusively with his non -painted peers - then the first “tasting” of lipstick occurs in the same way as in women, at 17 years old. Expected duration life Men in the Russian Federation in 2022 amounted to 67.6 years. In order to use 3 kg of lipstick in 50.6 years, it is necessary to eat about 59.3 g in a year, or almost 20 full tubes. Suppose, with a kiss with a newly -made woman, absolutely all of the lipstick falls into the stomach. In this case, in order to ensure the “daily consumption” of such volumes, it is necessary to kiss about 22.5 times a day, that is, if you lay eight hours for sleep, then at the remaining time you need to kiss your freshly painted affiliate program every 43 minutes and eat absolutely all of the lipstick. 

But so that both the man and the woman provide the declared amount of lipstick in her “diet” (3 kg and 4 kg, respectively), will have to master the foundations of time management. Suppose 17-year-old Russian teenagers created a couple, lived together all their lives, kissed regularly, and the woman after the death of the partner rushed to paint her lips. In this case, during a life together, the heroine of this love story needs to be lipstick daily 52 times in 16 hours of wakefulness (that is, every 18.5 minutes), of which about 30 times to eat cosmetics itself, and another 22 times - allow to do this to your partner. Such a routine, although in general, is completed, it looks extremely absurd and also does not take into account that part of the lipstick will nevertheless absorb into the skin of the lips, and part will remain on other objects and will not fall into the stomach.

Scientists have no exact data on how much lipstick of a man and woman is really unintentionally eaten in their lives. Moreover, it would be extremely difficult to calculate this, since some modern women abandon this element of decorative cosmetics, while others use it only from case to case. In general, about 7 mg of lipstick goes to one application, but there is usually no one in the stomach, and Remains On a coffee cup, wine glass or disk to remove makeup.

Do not be afraid and screaming headings about Dangerous substances in lipsticks, because there are no serious evidence of their toxicity. For example, parabens used in the cosmetic industry for conservation were indeed discovered In cancer, however, they could not determine whether they caused the oncological process or just accumulated there, scientists have not yet been able to. Legs, although attended in cosmetic products of some brands, Contained In a negligible amount, unable to harm a person. In addition, in lipsticks They found it Manganese, titanium and aluminum, however, in this case, scientists found it difficult to evaluate whether the content of these metals in the discovered quantities can negatively affect health.

Thus, in theory for life, a woman can eat 4 kg of lipstick, and a man - 3 kg, but will have to carefully monitor her daily routine and either paint her lips several tens of times a day and eat the applied cosmetics or follow that the affiliate program has made up and kiss it, completely sending all the lipstick from the lips to the stomach. In fact, by chance we eat significantly less cosmetics, since we update makeup is usually much less often, moreover, a significant part of the lipstick does not fall into the stomach, but remains on the dishes or washed off when removing makeup. Moreover, even because of this small amount, you should not worry, because modern cosmetics are not a shell with lead paste of the time of the Sumerian beauties and normally does not contain dangerous substances for health.

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