http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/lipstick.asp
This article states that women swallow approximately 6 pounds of lipstick in their lifetime. This is untrue. However, you would have to use 454 to 1,512 tubs of lipstick (see calculations in article). The problem with this claim is that it is to falsifiable. There are many contributing factors to weight gain and to determine it's source to be a single thing is impossible. Not to mention weight varies greatly simply throughout the day. A lifetime is also a very long time to monitor someone's lipstick application amounts as well as their weight. Therefore, you cannot test this hypothesis with experimentation. This also seems to be an extraordinary claim. Someone using that much lipstick in their lifetime seems like an absurdly large usage amount. I do not see how anyone can believe this statement.
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This article states that women swallow approximately 6 pounds of lipstick in their lifetime. This is untrue. You would have to use 454 to 1,512 tubes of lipstick (see calculations in article). The problem with this claim is that it is not able to be falsified through experimental means. There are many contributing factors to weight gain and to determine its source to be a single thing is impossible. A lifetime is also a very long time to monitor someone's lipstick application amounts as well as their weight, and their diet would also need to be monitored to make sure that was not the reason for the weight gain. It also makes you wonder, who’s to say that the lipstick wearing women even swallows all the lipstick she applies. Can’t the lipstick be transferred from her lips to things such as food, glasses, napkins etc.? It is absolutely impossible to measure the amount of lipstick ingested each day. Therefore, you cannot test this hypothesis with experimentation. This also seems to be an extraordinary claim-seeing as a tube of lipstick simply contains 3 grams. Someone using that much lipstick in their lifetime seems like an absurdly large usage amount. I do not see how anyone can believe this statement. This is all neglecting the fact that many women no longer use lipstick, and therefore don’t even gain the 3 grams contained in a single tube of lipstick.