Is Your Lipstick Causing Early Menopause?

Saturday, January 31, 2015 - 12:40 in Health & Medicine

by Ian Musgrave, Senior lecturer in Pharmacology at University of AdelaideI was going to avoid blogging on this topic, but seeing as the story made the Australian with the headline “Chemicals in lipstick and cleaning products linked to early menopause”, I feel I have to weigh in a bit to avoid undue panic and the inevitable dangers of people hurling their lipsticks out the window at great speed. Also, there are issues of science communication and “the dose makes the poison” read more

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