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> the average US woman will consume (eat) 4lbs of lipstick in her lifetime That is an astonishing amount of lipstick. Do you have a citation for this number?
by markrages 6y ago
> the average US woman will consume (eat) 4lbs of lipstick in her lifetime
That is an astonishing amount of lipstick. Do you have a citation for this number?
- jaquers 6y agohttps://www.futurederm.com/beauty-myth-busting-do-women-actually-eat-7-pounds-of-lipstick-in-their-lifetimes/ https://www.futurederm.com/beauty-myth-busting-do-women-actu... :shrug:
- GranPC 6y agoIt doesn't seem to be true. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/smax-factor/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/smax-factor/
- aksss 6y agoNot the greatest, but a quick one: https://www.futurederm.com/beauty-myth-busting-do-women-actually-eat-7-pounds-of-lipstick-in-their-lifetimes/ https://www.futurederm.com/beauty-myth-busting-do-women-actu... This article talks about how it's not 7lbs, it's only 3.7 pounds of exposure (risk of ingestion and absorption) based on estimates and shows their math. I'm guilty of forwarding a tenuous idea by repeating the 4 pound statement and not explaining the assumptions, but hell, even if it's 1 pound it's still a hell of a lot more than I ever assumed, though keep in mind it's over a lifetime (seven-eight decades). Point was simply that exposure == some fractional consumption. Smoking a cigar certainly is not healthier for your lungs than abstinence even if you don't deliberately inhale.
- markrages 6y agoThat's an upper bound number, relying on some dubious assumptions. Some women don't wear lipstick at all, so by the mean value theorem the average must be less than that number.
- recursive 6y ago> hell, even if it's 1 pound it's still a hell of a lot more than I ever assumed Hell, even if we get a 1% conversion rate, we'll be rich!
- markrages 6y agoI think that the two meanings of consumption, "to use up" and "to eat", are pretty freely conflated in this calculation.