Laura DiGirolamo

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · What They Put In Lip Gloss Is Banned From Food | Laura DiGirolamo, ESQ · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

So the first thing we did was create this group of experts, create two papers, one on the regulatory frameworks around the world, quantifying the blind spot.

We're regulating them like foot cream, as you say.

It's got to change.

And.

measuring that up against real world data.

How many lip products are we using a day?

I mean, there's this Kylie Jenner video that came out and everybody's like, oh my God, layering four and five lip products in one application.

We're not talking about putting on a lip balm now twice a day, which is what these studies from 30 years ago are flagging.

We're looking at really high usage rates of lip products and exposure rates now that have exponentially gone up.

So the first was create that legal paper.

The second was to look at lip biology.

which is different than skin biology.

Now, you know, in pharma, the way you look at lip and mouth tissue is very different than the way you look at regular skin tissue.

They look at this as a drug delivery system that bypasses your digestive system, right?

So if you take a testosterone pill, they clock that around a 30% absorption rate in the stomach.

And if you put it in your oral mucosa, it's 80%.

So the pharma industry knows that this is like a sponge.

And yet in the cosmetic world, even if there's an absorption test that you have to do, which most don't require it, they look at dermal skin.

which is 15 to 20 cells deep alone on the top layer.

This is three to five.

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