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They start with wax.

To this wax they add products to moisturize your lips. In the really old days they used a product called "spermaceti," which is a fat sperm whales store in a chamber in their heads. Since you can't harvest sperm whales anymore, they use jojoba, shea butter, lanolin or other things.

Then they add color. Today it's mostly synthetic color, but in they also use a red called carmine, which is made by boiling bugs called cochineal.

Finally, they mold it into the shape of a lipstick then put it in a lipstick tube for use.

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