Myth Debunked: The red colour in your lipstick comes from squashed ladybirds!

As humans developed, the initial sources of dyes used in colour, like the famous reddish purple – Tyrian purple – and blue indigo dyes of Phoenicia – came from the harvesting and destruction of thousands upon thousands of sea snails.In the Middle Ages, cochineal, a dye made by combining parts of a scale insect growing...