Considering the important difference in lead content betweenlipsticks and lip glosses, the possible influence of the price on leadlevel was also evaluated for both lip product types separately. For lip glosses (Table 5), the one-tailed Student’s t-test did not show any statistically significant difference among the various price categories, but it has to be remembered that only 4% of all the lip glosses analysed (3 out of 74) contained more than 1 mg/kg of lead.On the contrary, in the case of lipsticks (Table 5), which presented 31% of items containing more than 1 mg/kg of lead (46 out of 149),the samples belonging to price category III statistically showed the highest quality (lower lead content), followed by products in price categories I and II.