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Colors add to the experience, making using the products fun and exciting. They can also have a profound effect on our feelings and emotions.

Thanks to archaeological excavations, we know that using color to change our own appearance probably started thousands of years ago, during the Paleolithic. Proof of body painting with iron and manganese oxides, ochre and coal has been found, each color symbolizing something, depending on each culture.

Since then and for centuries, pigments were used in cosmetics and hair dyes, made out of minerals, plants or animals. Some colors were extremely rare, fading really fast or nonexistent as a pigment, this is why synthetic colors developed really fast since the 18th century, in order to obtain the full spectrum.

Today, synthetic colors are regulated and approved for safe use by different governing bodies around the world. After having checked their safety, a few of these are used by Lush to achieve a full cruelty-free pallet of color.

In the United States, colors for cosmetics must be specially pre-approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration. Each color is designated by the letters D&C (meaning suitable for drug and cosmetics), followed by a color and number designation.