Report: Asbestos Found in Claire's Kids' Makeup

"I physically sank." That was Kristi Warner's response to news that a makeup kit used by her 6-year-old daughter tested positive for asbestos, a finding that has prompted retailer Claire's to pull at least nine products from shelves. 

As a lawyer at a Rhode Island law firm specializing in asbestos litigation, Warner says she has previously come across "contaminated" cosmetics and decided to check out her own daughter's makeup, purchased from a Claire's store in Providence, per WJAR and USA Today. "You just assume that a children's product would be safe," says Warner. Instead, a North Carolina lab found the product tested positive for tremolite asbestos, as did all 17 makeup products Warner later purchased from Claire's stores in nine states, per WJAR.

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