4 Cosmetic Ingredients That Will Blow Your Mind

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Your makeup bag is hiding some wild secrets — here are four you never knew about.

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Your tinted moisturizer with sun protection barely shields you through a single lunch outside. Retinol tells your skin cells to act younger, and your face actually listens after a few weeks. Most red lipsticks get their rich color from crushed beetles, and you have worn it for years. One tiny drop of this stuff can hold about a thousand times its own weight in water for your skin.