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

I went to bed that night and I woke up at five o'clock in the morning like a lightning bolt had hit me.

And it was like, wait a second.

If lip products are cosmetics, that means they're topicals.

And if they're topicals and we're putting it on our mouths, what's being regulated and what's not being regulated?

So we're treating...

I personally think right now until we, so there's a gap of data in terms of what we're putting in lip products, how much we're ingesting and what the effects are of that on our health.

So, for example, it's well-documented, petrolatum, which is the thing that petroleum jelly is made from, right?

Petrolatum, mineral oil.

It is proven that it bioaccumulates in the body when you ingest it.

What does that mean?

It means that if you're putting petroleum jelly on your lips because it's a great occlusive and it locks in moisture, it is proven that that bioaccumulates when it's swallowed.

And that's an oil byproduct.

Yes.

So what does that do to the body?

It bioaccumulates and then who knows.

It basically accumulates in your organs, in your spleen.

I won't use that term, but yep, yep, pretty much.

So what they did in Europe, this was amazing.

In 2013, the Chemical Association, who is meant to be advising on the safety of these chemicals, they said, hey, wait a second, actually.

If you're going to use petroleum, petrolatum or mineral oil, we need to make a food grade version of that so that it doesn't bioaccumulate.

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