Skin contact with dust and dirt containing lead occurs every day. Some cosmetics and hair dyes contain lead compounds. However, not much lead can get into your body through your skin. Leaded gasoline contains a lead compound that may be quickly absorbed. In the home, you or your children may be exposed to lead if you take some types of home remedy medicines that contain lead comounds.
Lead compounds are in some non-Western cosmetics, such as surma and kohl.
Some types of hair colorants and dyes contain lead acetate. Read the labels on hair coloring products, use them with caution, and keep them away from children. People who are exposed at work are usually exposed by breathing in air that contains lead particles. Exposure to lead occurs in many jobs. Construction workers and people who work at municipal waste incinerators, pottery and ceramics industries, radiator repair shops, and other industries that use lead solder may also be exposed.