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What is lipstick made of?

Lipstick takes 8 things directly, among them castor beans, titanium dioxide, iron ore, pigment, honeycomb and paraffin wax. Trace them back and you pass 22 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.

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What goes straight in

From the ground: 13 raw materials

Made along the way: 17 things

Metals 2

Chemicals and fuels 15