Yummy Rainbow Lip Balm Lab

Mix up a rainbow of mouth-wateringly delicious lip balms and lip glosses. Experiment with a vibrant spectrum of colors and flavors to create your own personalized lip products. This cosmetics laboratory includes a special workstation and all the ingredients, containers, and tools you need to make up to six lip balms in clear plastic jars and two lip glosses in glass rollerball-applicator bottles. The ingredients include cosmetics-grade red, blue, and yellow dyes, which can be combined into a rainbow of colors; lip-smacking strawberry, banana, and grape flavors; shimmering fluid for the lip gloss; as well as the base oils and waxes for the balms and glosses. Decorate your workstation, jars, and bottles with the included stickers to complete your creations. Explore the biology of skin and lips and the chemistry of lip balms and glosses while learning simple lab techniques. Learn how to care for your skin and lips so they are healthy and radiant with this quick introduction to basic dermatology. A full-color manual guides you through the process of making lip balms and glosses, and provides detailed information about the science behind these products. Thoroughly tested to the highest standards for cosmetic and toy safety.

About Thames & Kosmos: Thames & Kosmos was founded in 2001 by a science museum director and her son, who saw the great need and demand for better science education materials — resources for parents and their children that are more engaging, more effective, more relevant, and more fun.