Friday 12th May 2023
Difficulty: Easy
Lipstick I (Quiz #175)
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The use of lip colouring can be traced back to the Sumerian region (modern-day Iraq and Kuwait), around 5000 BCE.
1. In 2007, a study by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics that found that 61% of lipsticks contained what, with levels up to 0.65 parts per million (ppm)?
2. What phenomenon is known as "the lipstick effect"?
3. An oft-repeated "fact" is that over her lifetime, the average woman will ingest 4 - 9lbs (or 1.8 - 4kg) of lipstick. Roughly how many actual lipsticks would, say, 7lb be equivalent to?
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