Ethan Lockwood browsed around Luminance Vault, examining various cosmetics with growing concern.
His inspection revealed this world's beauty products had a serious flaw—women's cosmetics were routinely toxic. Take rouge for example; its main ingredient was cinnabar, essentially powdered mercury sulfide.
Long-term use would inevitably lead to mercury poisoning.
Mercury poisoning damages the nervous system and liver.
He also discovered the foundation powder women used here—white lead powder. Just hearing the name made it clear this contained lead.
These were the only two products he could confidently identify as harmful. The myriad other cosmetics likely contained similar dangers, but he lacked the expertise to judge.
In his original world, he'd been a humanities student, not a scienti
