lipstick made with natural carmine -

Carmine is one of the very few pigments considered safe enough for use in eye cosmetics.[28] A significant proportion of the insoluble carmine pigment produced is used in the cosmetics industry for hair- and skin-care products, lipsticks, face powders, rouges, and blushes.[26] A bright red dye and the stain carmine used in microbiology is often made from the carmine extract, too.[12] The pharmaceutical industry uses cochineal to colour pills and ointments.[17]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal

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The Cochineal Insect and Carmine - A Nightmare that Legitmises Organic Beauty Products

Carmine is present in almost all red coloured lipsticks that aren’t made using natural organic ingredients and natural organic processes. Scarlet in colour, it is the ingredient that gives dark shaded lipsticks that deep, soulful hue, to which many women and men are so attracted; it gives the deep set red that many of us, for various Freudian and pseudo-Freudian reasons - including the colour similarities with other desires and closely connected parts of the human body - has been worshipped almost in fetish for centuries, though certainly exploding in the last century....

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