80 to 90% of the lip products you're buying doesn't matter whether it's in a drugstore or whether

it's in a very prestige outfit 80 to 90% of them are made with micropastics what are the

terms that mean plasticizers on the ingredients list polymer copolymer is a plastic synthetic wax

lip products are classed as cosmetic and And when you say cosmetic, that means

topical. If we're looking at them as topical products, but we are flavoring them like food,

we're reapplying them way more today than we were 30 years ago. Some people are reapplying

up to 40 times a day. You're one of the first that I'm telling this about publicly.

This is nerve-wracking because this is a multi-multi-billion dollar industry, and it's just me.

And I need help from people like yourself who are unafraid to stand up and go, hey, wait a second, this is wrong.

Thank you. You've spent your whole life eating your lip products.

Every lip gloss, every lipstick, every flavored balm, every vanilla frosted lip mask marketed

to teenage girls at Sephora.

The beauty industry regulates these products almost exactly the same way it regulates body lotion.

But the skin on our lips is completely different, and we're ingesting it.

Today's guest says one of the biggest blind spots in modern beauty is hiding in plain sight.

Products designed for the mouth are being treated like they never enter the body at all.

Laura D. Girolamo is a beauty attorney and beauty industry insider turned whistleblower.

She helped pioneer clean beauty before clean beauty was even a thing.

She advised giants like Sephora on emerging trends and invented one of the first premium

healthy deodorants long before wellness beauty became mainstream.

She is also the founder of Yom Beauty, a completely clean lip mask with food grade ingredients and zero plastic.

If you listen to my bombshell interview this year with Jason Karp on the inside baseball of the food industry as well as plastic, you are going to love this episode.

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