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Lipstick from Cactus Bugs
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Aug 8, 2022 12:24 AM
DoctorDerk
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Edit: Neat! Most viral! I've upvoted everyone I could. Have a good one!
PenguinNamedWobbles
It's also widely used as red food coloring, so you've probably eaten this before btw. :)
DoctorNinjah
Remember to wet your drys and dry your wets y'all.
tea3agger
Tastes like ass
wherearemytesticles
Is that FDA approved???
YippeeKayakOB
way faster to just smear them on directly
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SomeDetroitGuy
Nope. They are the cochineal bug and the pigment is called carmine.
PetCamperProject
Fun fact:Many pigments are made from insects
ZebraCockSandwich
I'm an artist. I LOVE all the weird ass ways we make colors.
sirlapins
dye used for british redcoats .the host plant was a feral weed in Aussie till 1925 when " beetle " was used to kill it off 1/2
sirlapins
wiki Prickly pears in Australia
LilyBellGiantess
Cochineal has been used as pigment for centuries.
cactuskid1956
Let's do brown from cow shit
ZebraCockSandwich
well we did brown from crushed up mummies so, its not off the table.
Nibbilynobbily
Cool. Yes please.
akyezSleepDog
Grana cochinilla
Laggybear
Reason #2 I don't wear makeup.
b1candy2
Red M&Ms use this
ZebraCockSandwich
BRB gotta go ruin my husbands day
DrBabyDanny
Is this how they made frutopia?
MarkySpaceMagnet
Cactus bugs and sewer grease
rockhydra
I typed a paper for my wife about these buggers. Interesting stuff.
DoctorDerk
Does the paper to have a bibliography too?
rockhydra
I don’t remember. It was 18 years ago
UnagiFerrin
Definitely goes in the category of "who first thought to do this" like eating the things that come out of a chicken's butt
ZebraCockSandwich
depending on where in the world they originate, im gonna guess old natives that wanted red paint and squished a bug and said "yup that works
Fishkeeper
Someone who crushed some bugs accidentally, saw the red, and went "ooh, pigment!"
dmay1210
Well, that was informative . Licking my lips leads to bloodshed.
tdmoth
Does it have more of a Merlot flavour or Bordeaux?
MrHappySmiles
Is it poop? Tell me it’s poop? Lip poop?
SherMattLockSmith
Nah, it's the whole insect.
SnowPeas22
But the insect had poop inside. So, technically....
ZebraCockSandwich
there's probably traces in it, but all the refining would make it harmless.
filthysouls
You’re telling me I could make lipstick off all that moldy looking cactus in my front yard?
Fishkeeper
Depends on how much effort you want to put into it.
SnowPeas22
Those are bugs not mold
ladyzeiraphera
This is why some products with “natural red food colouring” aren’t vegetarian.
DoctorDerk
There should be a label that says, 'No cute animals that you care about were harmed in the making of this product'
ElbowDeepInUserSub
Fun fact: most women do NOT like being called Bug Lips, no matter how red their lips are.
VaultGirl69
I wouldn't mind. Why would we mind? I love bugs.
ElBarbu
Ooh so that's why all my dates never called back
RealRaceRiotsAreAboutGettingBlueshelledInMarioKart
That and their heads are in jars in your bathroom, but sure that works too
Imsickagain
Redder than a woodpeckers ass in pokeberry season!
HandoB4Javert
Krakencrotch
Correct me if I'm wrong, they wear the chin strap like that so it doesn't break their necks when their helmets take a bullet, right?
DemSumBigAssRidges
Probably because the hat is so top heavy that a strap around your throat would just choke you all the time.
Krakencrotch
So, that's a yes, then?
DemSumBigAssRidges
It's a no. They're tall to make the soldiers look more imposing and intimidating.
butteredlemonpoundcake
Perhaps an unpopular opinion: I'd much rather it be made from crushed, dead bugs than artificial dyes. Though, I rarely wear makeup...
zerogenix
me either bro
Clemptor
the "natural" and "clean" vs "chemical" in cosmetics and skincare is pure marketing, same with food
Fishkeeper
Never quite gotten why land bugs are gross to think about eating, but some water bugs are delicacies.
Fishkeeper
(Aside from the "texture of legs" thing. Like, imagine if a grasshopper was lobster-sized. People still wouldn't eat em.)
anthrolover6
Folks eat grasshoppers all the time tho. Pretty sure if they got to the size of lobsters folks would be busting out the melted butter.
Fishkeeper
Clarification: people in the "ew, bugs" parts of the world, who'll eat lobster happily but recoil from cricket flour.
SherMattLockSmith
Cochineal is banned in cosmetics in the USA because repeated use leads to becoming allergic to it over time. Natural != automatically good.
DoctorDerk
Yet it may be in your strawberry ice cream. Funny that
m0problems
Source? As far as I can tell carmine has always been permitted in cosmetics (and food)...
Fishkeeper
/Always/ leads, or /can/ lead? Repeated exposure to anything can result in an allergy.
phoenixaddams
Can. I've used carmine pigment lipstick for years
Corrodias
I'm not sure about "anything". Maybe that depends on how frequent, but I've not yet become allergic to, say, cheese. Or water. Or myself.
shimmerkitten
Mmm cheese
ZebraCockSandwich
It can definitely happen with anything that carries a protein, some things are just more common than others. With cheese, usually its a 1/
ZebraCockSandwich
sensitivity to casein can develop over time, but not really an 'allergy', just causes inflammation if you become sensitive. for me, it was 2
Fishkeeper
If we frequently became allergic to things from eating a bunch of them, we'd die way more often. But you can, at any point, become allergic
Fishkeeper
to just about anything your body can detect. There are some very unfortunate people who have allergies to water, and being allergic to
SomeDetroitGuy
It's called "Carmine" and it's the red color in WAY more than just lipstick.
PTNLemay
Is it the bug's dead body or their poop?
ZebraCockSandwich
based on the amount shown when squished, I'm going to assume its their bodily fluid, that'd be a lot of excrement in one bug otherwise.
maststick
I was looking for this comment, the cochineal bug has been used in a lot of things
JayEnfield
Yep. https://igorinternational.com/blog/2006/06/26/good-and-plenty-of-what/
Jabokoe
daRealFuckfaceVonClownstick
It’s the reason why M&Ms in the US aren’t vegan . . .
SherMattLockSmith
It's banned in cosmetics in the USA, but it is in a lot of food products.
phoenixaddams
I've seen a ton of "natural" lipsticks with carmine as the main if not only pigment. It my be banned for use in cosmetics for the eye area?
maststick
Why is it banned in cosmetics but not in food
merv96
Bugs dna is so different from humans that it has a relatively low chance of containing pathogens that harm humans.
SesshouFan22
Because the FDA is run by idiots
aShogunNamedMarcus
Gross. Next thing you're gonna tell me is that vanilla flavor is made from beaver ass juice.
ProphetofEntropy
its probably not. not for a long time now.
VaultGirl69
I thought that was raspberry flavor.
ninjacookiechef
Next you’re going to tell me my beaver ass-juice flavored ice cream is made from nasty beans
charliegrs
Next thing you're going to tell me that 99% of wasabi is just horseradish
435Holly
Wait til you learn about honey, and forest honey especially...
Feldspartacus
Love the username!
pr3viso
Actually, it's from otter ass juice. Common mistake to confuse the two.
unnecessaryredarrows
So, who’s milking the beaver butts?
Redisia
Had to dig for an english article... but red/pink food dye is made from dead bugs https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43786055
ZebraCockSandwich
There was a yellow pigment back in the renaissance period that was super rare and expensive, made from buffalo pee. and lest we forget 1/
ZebraCockSandwich
good ol' "mummy brown" humans will do a lot of weird shit for colors. 2
OsakaDon
Wait, are you saying that my beaver ass juice is made of vanilla? Yuk!
LittlePinkAnimal
Not so much nowadays. Now it might just be rotting pine logs.
JustHereForTheMemes0321
Sort of not really, if you're unlucky https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/castoreum/
itsallaboutthecones
Well that's just disappointing. We need to go back to the good ol' days when you could blatantly lie about the contents of your products!
JustHereForTheMemes0321
Absolutely
DoctorDerk
So, Vanillin which is used in artificial vanilla flavor can be extracted from cow manure.
ZebraCockSandwich
Man I'm gonna go ruin so many people's days with this information.
itsallaboutthecones
Mmmmmmm.... Sweet, sweet beaver ass juice.
orbitn
This is going on your tombstone, you know
itsallaboutthecones
Over my dead body!
orbitn
that's the idea yes
SerenePrincess013
Dude, that's gross! No way!! Next thing you'll come up with is the glitter in cosmetics is made from fish scales!
paeches
I thought that was mica. https://youtu.be/IeR-h9C2fgc
ElviraQueenOfDarkness
Which is ethically worse (major use of child labour) than fish scales.
itsallaboutthecones
That's better than micro plastics, right?
MADchemEE
A thousand times, yes.
SerenePrincess013
Oh, don't be like that. It's not like plastic will end up in our bloodstream; that's silly!
itsallaboutthecones
No, that's what gore tex is for! If it's not in your bloodstream then it just isn't name brand gore tex! The original forever checmical!
QuamvisSintSubAqua
That's a lot of "didn't want to know" stuff.
Schitzoflink
You are not going to believe this...
AnApologeticCanadian
You mean to tell me vanilla beans grow on beavers ass juice!?
jammer909
If it doesn't specify Vanilla Bean in the ingredients, than it is likely a vanilla substitute that came from beaver glands.
PhotoTopher
It’s not juice from a beaver’s ass, but from their hemorrhoids.
smegginhell
That's wayyyy better then /s
Weissgrossmutter
No, it's not vanilla, it's raspberry.
Tier7Gaming
It's vanilla, raspberry, and strawberry.
Weissgrossmutter
Ugh, didn't know that. good then that i buy vanilla pods and make my ovwn extract,
AHopelesslyRomanticBOOB
Wait what
SnowPeas22
Beaver glands smell like vanilla. Is then promptly used in some places as "natural flavors" in some foods.
always1haveparis
It's only used (very rarely) in perfumes. Real vanilla is FAR cheaper and easier to acquire
Homicidalgerbil
Geez. How expensive is beaver ass then.
NotAnInternetBreaker
That depends on the Beaver.
Isorikk
Are vanilla beans not from a plant ?
DrGrue
Vanilla beans, yes. Artificial vanilla flavor, no
KaptainObveeus
Artificial means produced in a lab. When you see 'natural flavor' that means extracted from nature
KaptainObveeus
So if you see "natural vanilla flavor" that's not real vanilla butt rather the juices.
ElviraQueenOfDarkness
It comes from bacteria! Also ethicaly artificial vanilla (vanilin) is better for the enviroment.