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

But I think we need to do better than that.

That's why the Lip Service Alliance exists.

We need to look at this as soon as possible, create that lip model where we're testing on the right type of skin tissue in the lab so we know how everything is being absorbed and what's happening.

We're not we should be testing it on dermal models, which is what some people do.

It's not legally required, but some people do.

And that's another thing, by the way, when we look at ingestion rates.

So that first paper that I told you that we were working on on the regulatory framework, this is in peer review right now.

You look at all of these global frameworks, US, UK, EU, and you say, is ingestion acknowledged at the regulatory level for lip products?

So we know we put them on, we flavor them like food, we're eating them.

Does the regulation acknowledge

We will acknowledge that you eat 0.05 grams of this a day, right?

Most regulatory frameworks don't even acknowledge ingestion.

So think about that before you buy a product.

That product was not screened for ingestion.

And that is what is happening throughout the day, especially as you apply it over and over and over again.

That's the blind spot.

Then you have the second level of the blind spot, which is it's lip vermilion.

It's not regular skin.

So what's going through this into our bloodstreams?

Well, I started crying when I saw a clip, because you can go onto TikTok now, and you can see young girls doing taste tests

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