THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS

OF LIPSTICK
Hannah Lapeyrolerie

ORIGINAL MATERIALS
Europe- Beeswax and red stains from plants
Mesopotamia- Crushed gems
Sumerians, Egyptians, Syrians, Babylonians, Persians,
and Greeks- Mercuric sulfide

OLD PROCESS
Europe- mix the plant stains and mix them with

beeswax

Mesopotamia- crush gems into fine powder and would

add small amounts of water

Mercuric sulfide is a chemical that would be put into

bottles or containers and given to women

NEW MATERIALS
Oil, alcohol, pigment, wax (beeswax, candelilla,

camanba), antioxidants, fragrance, and moisturizer.

MANUFACTURING
Melting/mixing- 1)melt all the ingredients separately (waxes, oils,

solvents), 2)add all the ingredients with pigment, 3) make sure that the
mixture does not have any bubbles still remaining, 4) pour the mixture into
a tube shaped mold and cooled completely, 5) then the tubes are put
under rollers to make the lipstick smooth

Molding- 6) the mixture is then removes from the tubes and re-heated to

make sure there are no bubbles 7) the liquid is then poured into the final
mold and put into a cooling until 8) if for some reason there is still traces of
air, the stick will be thrown away

Labeling and packaging 9) the mold is then taken off and capped 10)

once it is capped it is packaged and sent to stores

HOW IT HAS CHANGED

Before molds, lipstick was just in small bags or small

plastic containers.

The manufacturing process was a maximum of two

steps: crushing and mixing.

Lipstick used to be more powdery after because it

didnt go through the rolling process

SOCIAL IMPACT
1920s- symbolized womens independence
1930s- teenage girls thought it represented womanhood, but parents thought that it

represented rebellion

1940s- shameful to wear lipstick because it wasnt a natural look

1950s- started making non-smear lipstick
1960s- all girls wore lipstick
1970s- lipstick companies started making more unusual colors like light blue and lime

green.

1980s- the beginning of mood lipstick

1990s- the beginning of more neutral looking lipsticks
2000s- bright colors and neon colors

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
The process of making lipstick is not harmful to the
environment and all of the organic lipsticks are not
harmful to the user. The only negative impact that
lipstick has is when some dangerous chemicals are used
(example: mercuric sulfide).

ECONOMIC IMPACT
Lipstick makes up about 10% of the cosmetic industry
This means that per year America earns $4 billion in
lipstick, $6 billion in Asia, Europe, and Australia, and $1
billion in Africa

SOURCES
http://www.lipstickhistory.com/making-lipstick/
http://madehow.com/Volume-1/Lipstick.html
http://chemistscorner.com/a-cosmetic-market-overview-f
or-cosmetic-chemists/