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

We took three of the world's

very readily available, very popular products.

And we did an analysis under the Lip Service Alliance.

We looked at what is in these products and the level of

I mean, it's right there on the side.

If you see something that's a plasticizing ingredient on the side, you know that if you test it for microplastics, it's likely going to have microplastics.

And that's what we were finding.

And the thing is that there is no standardized test in the industry for a brand to say, hey, let's go and test my lip product for microplastics.

We're not talking about contamination, right?

Like if you go and you buy a drink and it was made on a line and it had some sort of contamination with microplastics, that's pretty typical.

Microplastics are everywhere.

What we're seeing in these formulas is that they're made from microplastic ingredients.

So if you look at copolymers, you look at polybutane, you look at, you know, and by the way, polybutane

is not technically considered a microplastic, even though it's a plastic.

So polybutane is an ingredient that's used in a lot of lip products.

Now, if I were to tell you what polybutane really is... Tell us.

Well, I just went, I'm going to just see if there's an adjacent industry that uses polybutane.

And if you look at it, it's literally liquid plastic.

Polybutane is liquid.

But it's sticky and it's tacky and it's what we use in gloss.

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