FDA works hard to limit consumers’ exposure to lead in all FDA-regulated products, including cosmetics. The following information provides some background on what the law says about the safety...

Venetian ceruse or Venetian white, [2] also known as blanc de céruse de Venise[3] and Spirits of Saturn, [4] was a 16th-century cosmetic used as a skin whitener. It was in great demand and considered the best available at the time, supposedly containing the best quality white lead sourced from Venice, the global merchant capital at the time.

2022年2月27日 · A comparison of bare skin with makeup made with white lead and with titanium dioxide replacing the lead carbonate. Modern recipes that use a titanium replacement look whiter and more opaque...

2022年11月3日 · Queen Elizabeth I contracted smallpox in 1562 at 29, leaving her skin covered in pockmarks. As a result, she lathered her face in a thick layer of white, lead-based makeup called Venetian ceruse, which according to a 1688 recipe, included a mixture of water, vinegar and lead.

Women have used lead-based cosmetics for millennia in accordance with the beauty standards of the day. Clockwise from top left: Queen Puabi of Sumer (c. 2500–2300 BCE); Queen Nefertiti of Egypt (c. 1370–1330 BCE); a Chinese woman (middle sixth century CE); late 19th-century American advertisement for Laird’s Bloom of Youth; Queen ...

In December 2016, FDA issued draft guidance to industry on lead as an impurity in cosmetic lip products, such as lipsticks, and other cosmetics, such as eye shadows, blushes, compact powders,...

2016年9月22日 · In ancient Egypt, people wore lead makeup on their eyes. Learn about poisonous ingredients in ancient makeup and see what lipstick is made of today. The video below explains that modern...

2022年7月29日 · Throughout history lead has been a key ingredient in cosmetics, which seems shocking given what we now know about the risks posed by high levels of lead to the human body. Queen Elizabeth I’s famously pale complexion was achieved with Venetian Ceruse, a white lead-based make-up which is thought to be a possible cause of her death.

2013年12月17日 · Lead has a long and alarming history as a makeup ingredient (and indeed, still plagues us today). According to Rance, it’s been used in cosmetics since antiquity. In the eighteenth century, women mixed it with vinegar to make ceruse, which helped them achieve that extremely pale look popular at the time.

2022年2月27日 · The increased diffuse reflectance from the white lead makeup gives the skin a “softer” appearance, blurring blemishes — another effect produced by modern cosmetics. The recipes we re-create in our lab create a soft-focus look that blurs wrinkles and blemishes, or the look of a youthful, dewy complexion.