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

Because it's like, it's...

I hope that it's a titanium dioxide-free red lipstick, but they're hard to find.

They're plastic?

Lip...

Sticks could be made with more natural ingredients like beeswax that you can get better lipstick products.

But to make an opacity, to make a color on lip that really pops, you have to use titanium dioxide right now.

But I mean, obviously, I'm working with Yom Beauty on food grade alternatives that are also cosmetic grade, but food grade alternatives.

So.

The innovation is catching up, but the majority of lipsticks will be using titanium dioxide.

You know, when you look at the back of a box and it says plus minus titanium dioxide on the ingredient means it could or could not contain depending on whether or not it's a color.

So let's say you go out and you look at one of these very high end luxury brands that does a range of lip glosses.

They have a clear one.

and then they have eight colored ones and on the back it'll say plus minus titanium dioxide that's because the clear one doesn't have it oh wow but the other eight that have color in it will have it in order to create the color on lip so it's an it's an ingredient that's widely used by the cosmetic industry to create a white tone that makes the color pop

For example, I would look at anything that has the word copolymer and then dive deeper into where that copolymer comes from.

So polymer, copolymer.

is a plastic.

So you should look at that and say, hmm, an interesting one, which we are just now starting.

So again, I did two things once I discovered the blind spot.

The first is to create the nonprofit.

The nonprofit is to close this gap and create consumer awareness with the experts that can help us change as quickly as possible, right?

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