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The Fraud Discovery Institute is at it again…..The “institute” has just released a study claiming that the Nu Skin Nu Color Replenishing Lipstick in Amber Spice contained very high levels of lead.

The testing was done by Safecosmetics.org -a non-profit consumer safety organization that aims to protect the public from dangerous lead-filled cosmetics. This is also the same lab that reported just months ago about the high levels of lead in various Herbalife products. And of course, both studies were funded by Barry Minkow, the founder of the FDI and advocate against all MLM companies.

To establish a baseline for what constitutes dangerous lead levels, FDI compared the finding in the Nu Skin lipstick against test results of other lipsticks and found that that Amber spice contain 1.12 ppm of lead, far above what other lipsticks contained.

Stacy Malkan, communications director for Safe Cosmetics.org stated that the lead in the Nu Skin lipstick appears to be almost twice as high as the most lead-contaminated brand tested by SafeCosmetics.org.

“The FDA has no established lead law for lipstick, but I think that it is safe to assume that Nu Skin probably does not want the distinction of being the most lead-contaminated of lipsticks tested by the non-profit organization seeking to protect consumers from dangerous products,” said Barry Minkow, co-founder of the Fraud Discovery Institute.

Minkow would also like to remind everyone that although his primary focus is annoying and attempting to take down Herbalife, he will also continue to try to take down and be a thorn in the side of other MLM companies as well, hence the Lipstick studies of Nu Skin cosmetics. Nu Skin has not released an official comment on the study, but we will keep you posted on any new developments.

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