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MissSixty1 8 years
there is something about this man. he is so fcukin sexy!!!!
caligirl1201 8 years
Jude looks like he hired K-Fed to be his new stylist. If the rumor is true I don't care. Jude and Sienna bore me and I wish people would stop taking up magazine pages mentioning them.
PrincessPixie 8 years
where did that comment go? oh well.... orgies are overrated anyway. id rather have a good back scratch.
jennifer76 8 years
Yes, I find it effortless, myself. :)
JennaV 8 years
Thanks j76! Meant to say we are NOT besties, lol! Another thing that is annoying is when people go ape-s*** when you call Baby K-Fudd not cute. Or those people who are like....how can you loathe someone you don't know? Actually, it is very easy to loathe tranny looking skanks like Jessica and Liz H and man hands Paris.
jennifer76 8 years
Right on, JV!!
JennaV 8 years
Please. The whole site is about speculation. Do any of us know ANY of these celebs? I guess we have to stop commenting on peeps since we are besties with them. That is just getting old...
PrincessPixie 8 years
he he he i gotcha Team! (eek! dont moderate me!)
jennifer76 8 years
It's funny to me though that people get incensed that others might have an opinion based on rumor when they of course have a SUPER PASSIONATE opinion based on rumor themselves.
PrincessPixie 8 years
curiouser and curiouser said alice falling down the rabbit hole...... why did that get emailed to me but not put up?
jennifer76 8 years
Oh, Team must've deleted it. Play nice people!!!!
PrincessPixie 8 years
she said this - but i cant find it.... 'Hey, what fun this is. Dream up anything to say about someone (a celebrity of note of course) and make it as nasty as yuo can think of and hope that it catches on and starts a real rumor. What fun! NOT FUN - it's mean and ugly and I' am tired of seeing Jude accused of every stupid sexual perversion anyone can think of. So he made a mistake with the Nanny. We weren't there and we don't know why and this private man will never tell us..And how many of us have been involved in an unscheduled peeping scene in the midst of a lovemaking session as a participant or inadvertantly watched our parents through no fault of anyone. They weren't performing for the child. It happened accidentally. Grow up. But of course he hires secret people for secret orgies. sure and through no fault of his a dumb picture of his genitals makes BIG NEWS and everyone forgets it's always been on view in several movies and on the London stage and Broadway and no one complained.As a matter of fact I sat up f ront in the theatre fot that show INDISCRETIONS, and he has NOTHING to apologize for. Cameras can lie especially with long-distance lenses taken at the wrong angle. This crap like the -other unproven stories about threesomes etc. are just rampant imagination . THe press sems to feel that if they have a void they should fill it with fiction, Don't go the way of all others,. Be sensible use your head. You have a conusmmate actor with great intelligence - half of all that was supposed to happen with Sienna never happened either. Wake up people get real and learn to separate fact from fiction.'
jennifer76 8 years
Pix, did she say something else?
PrincessPixie 8 years
Whoa! slow down turbo! you keep (and rather agressively) saying there have been no other scandals - what about the 4some(s) -the child eating extacy -the wife swapping i heared about? dont get your knickers in a twist. its just a celebrity blog, not Jerry Springer!
PrincessPixie 8 years
whats your proof its not true that outweighs the rumour that it is?
jennifer76 8 years
It's fun?
dolores 8 years
commenting is wonderful if it's about a legitimate item...otherwise what's the point?
jennifer76 8 years
Why do people comment on why people comment? Because we all have an opinion...that's why!! :)
PrincessPixie 8 years
I thought 4somes with Sadie Frost, Kate Moss and some Davinia chick were a scandal. fun, no doubt, but a scandal. plus that his son or daughter ate an extacy tablet at a nightclub.
dolores 8 years
why do people comment on a non event. someone planted this item and everybody's giving opinions on something that has no basis. jude law made one mistake...to err is human to forgive devine. he is a great father and a great actor...leave this gorgeous guy alone. other than the nanny incident he's never been involved in scandal...find another victim.
dolores 8 years
jude is definitely not going to ibizia for a orgy...he is in london taking care of his children. that aside...he is the most beautiful and sexiest guy on this planet..the way that man moves ....it's meltdown
PrincessPixie 8 years
suprisingly for me, i suppose, i am SO against infidelity. i understand mistakes happen, and that all the regret in the world can't make it better, but how more often to men hit on women? and how many of those men try to talk you out of being faithful to your partner? HEAPS. no offense to you Az because you know i love and value you, but MOST men are dirty pigs who will stick it anywhere its warm and then paint the woman as the harlot. im in a situation now where im getting a bad name for having a 'taken' guy ht on me repeatedly - even though i have not responded, and instead rebuffed him in a friendly manner. General consensus, hes a 'good guy', a 'red blooded man' and im a 'tease' and a 'skank'. women need to stand up for each other.
ethiopian_princess 8 years
He has always been effeminate to me. That's why they call them pretty boys. He is literally pretty like a woman. As for the penis, I don't care. I like to look at eyecandy, not take them home or marry them.
JennaV 8 years
For me...he has become more feminine looking. Plus, cannot get the image of his small penis out of my mind. Shrinkage my arse...
ethiopian_princess 8 years
JennaV, cads can still be eye candy. Most eye candy = cads. He's physically attractive and he just needs to accept the fact that monogamy is not his cup of tea.
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I posted this in response to an inquiry and thought maybe to start it as a new thread.
I have a great idea for you and for anyone wanting to do a fundraiser.
There is a company which just launched called 1-800-Pharmacy which spends it's advertising budget in the form a of rebates to its customers. Customers who refer friends get rebates on what their friends order to. Shopping online is cheaper and easier as it is, but if you get a rebate it is even better. This is the incentive to customersshop and save, share and save more. purchaser gets 50% of the wouldbe advertising budget on their own purchases, 40% gets divided among the referring parties and 10% goes to a health charity. more info here:
This is how it works for a fundraiser. Almost every company doing e-commerce has an affiliate program where the company pays individuals to refer business to them in the form of a commission. Every time you click a banner at, somebody is getting paid. 1-800-Pharmacy has a program set up so that organizations wanting to do fundraisers can be set up as an affiliate and get paid to refer customers.
This is an easy fundraiser because the items for sale are the health and beauty products we all buy every month as well as prescriptions so you are not asking people to write another check and spend more money, just shift their shopping for the same items and brands they buy at the brick and mortar grocery/drugstore to an online one (and likely pay less in the process).
Perhaps the best part about the fundraising program 1-800-pharmacy has set up is that it never stops. Every time a referred customer shops the school, boyscout troop, or whoever, gets paid a commission forever. If those customers refer other customers, the school gets a commission on them as well four referrals removed. The customers still get the rebates on their own purchases and those of the people they referred, but the school gets 40% of the wouldbe advertising budget on the direct referrals and 30%, 20%, 10% the generations of referred customers of their referral. The funds raised will have a compounding and multiplying effect as time goes on.
The advertising budget of a particular item is roughly 10% or even higher. This means the school would be getting about 4% commission when the mother of a student buys toothpaste she would have bought anyway.
This advertising money is going to someone and this program just redirects it to the charity.
1-800-Pharmacy just launched, and their online sales won't be available until late spring, but you can set up an account now and read about them at www.1800pharmacy.com/k. You can set up your school and have everything ready before the kids come back in fall.
I hope this all makes sense. We are doing this for a charter school in Phoenix as their fundraiser.
Individuals can follow the link to set up their own accounts, but if you are representing a school or other group planning to do a fundraiser, 1-800-Pharmacy will have support materials for you to help you explain and promote it to your patrons. Use the link to create an account for your school, or charity (name the account after the organization) and it will get directed to the fundraising program. After you create an account, you can call the 1-800-Pharmacy (not hard to figure out the number) and request help with fundraising or contact me for a direct contact at the company (I don't work at 1-800-Pharmacy, but am friends with the CEO).
good luck!
A note for those who are thinking hey, I can refer my kids' school get all those rewards and make a fortune, does not work that way. institutions doing fund raisers are outside of the customer referral program and no rebates are generated to the referring party so the school gets 4 times as much money. Sorry, good idea, but this is for the charities benefit not yours. If you want to make money referring people, just follow the link and set yourself up as a customer or if you are a professional affiliate join their affiliate program.


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In a telemanipulation system for manipulating objects located in a workspace at a remote worksite by an operator from an operator's station, such as in a remote surgical system, the remote worksite having a manipulator with an end effector for manipulating an object at the workspace, such as a body cavity, a controller including a hand control at the control operator's station for remote control of the manipulator, an image capture device, such as a camera, and image output device for reproducing a viewable real-time image, the improvement wherein a position sensor associated with the image capture device senses position relative to the end effector and a processor transforms the viewable real-time image into a perspective image with correlated manipulation of the end effector by the hand controller such that the operator can manipulate the end effector and the manipulator as if viewing the workspace in true presence. Image transformation according to the invention includes translation, rotation and perspective correction.
1. A method comprising:
positioning a surgical end effector within an internal surgical site in a patient body, the surgical end effector operatively associated with a hand controller via a processor so that the processor effects movement of the end effector in response to movement of the hand controller;
capturing an image of the surgical end effector within the internal surgical site with an endoscope;
displaying the image of the end effector so that the end effector defines a displayed position relative to the hand controller;
moving the endoscope within the internal surgical site;
statically realigning the displayed position of the image of the end effector with the hand controller, allowing the operator to view the end effectors as if emerging from the hand controller.
2. The telesurgical method of
3. The telesurgical method of
4. The telesurgical method of
5. A surgical robotic system comprising:
a slave manipulator movable with respect to a surgical site in an actual workspace;
a camera system for capturing an image of the slave manipulator and the surgical site;
a display for displaying a processed image to an operator in an apparent workspace;
a master controller movable with respect to the displayed processed image in the apparent workspace;
a processor for performing a transformation on the captured image to generate a processed image; wherein;
the orientation of the slave manipulator relative to the surgical site in the displayed processed image defines a first vector;
the orientation of the master controller relative to the displayed processed image of the surgical site in the apparent workspace defines a second vector; and
the transformation on the captured image to generate a processed image aligns the first vector with the second vector.
6. The system of
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This application is a continuation of, and claims the benefit of priority from, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/813,506 filed Mar. 21, 2001, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,574,355 issued on Jun. 3, 2003; which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/174,051 filed Oct. 15, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,259,806 issued on Jul. 7, 2001; which is a continuation application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/783,644, filed Jan. 14, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No 5,859,934 issued on Jan. 12, 1999, which is a continuation application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/239,086 filed May 5, 1994, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,631,973 issued on May 20, 1997, the full disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference. This application is also a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/709,930 filed Sep. 9, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,963,792 issued on Nov. 8, 2005; which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/823,932 filed Jan. 21, 1992, now abandoned, the full disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
This invention was made with Government support under Grant No. 5-R01-GM44902-02 awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The Government has certain rights in the invention.
This invention relates to telemanipulation using telepresence, and more particularly to applications of telemanipulation to laparoscopic surgery.
A telemanipulation system allows an operator to manipulate objects located in a workspace from a remote control operator's station. For example, in a laparoscopic abdominal surgery procedure, the patient's abdomen is insufflated with gas, and cannulas are passed through small incisions to provide entry ports for laparoscopic surgical instruments. Laparoscopic surgical instruments include an image capture means for viewing the surgical field and working tools, such as forceps or scissors. The working tools are similar to those used in open surgery, except that the working end of each tool is separated from its handle by an extension tube. The surgeon performs surgery by sliding the instruments through the cannulas and manipulating them inside the abdomen while referencing a displayed image of the interior of the abdomen. Surgery by telepresence, that is, from a remote location by means of remote control of the surgical instruments, is a next step. A surgeon is ideally able to perform surgery through telepresence, which, unlike other techniques of remote manipulation, gives the surgeon the feeling that he is in direct control of the instruments, even though he only has remote control of the instruments and view via the displayed image.
The effectiveness of telepresence derives in great measure from the illusion that the remote manipulators are perceived by the operator of the system to be emerging from the hand control devices located at the remote operator's station. If the image capture means, such as a camera or laparoscope, are placed in a position with respect to the manipulators that differs significantly from the anthropomorphic relationship of the eyes and hands, the manipulators will appear to be located away from the operator's hand controls. This will cause the manipulators to move in an awkward manner relative to the viewing position, inhibiting the operator's ability to control them with dexterity and rapidity. However, it is often unavoidable in applications such as laparoscopic surgery to move the laparoscope in order to obtain the best possible image of the abdominal cavity.
Thus, a technique is needed for providing to the operator the sense of direct hand control of the remote manipulator, even in the presence of a substantially displaced imaging device, such that the operator feels as if he is viewing the workspace in true presence.
According to the invention, in a telemanipulation system for manipulating objects located in a workspace at a remote worksite by an operator at an operator's station, such as in a remote surgical system, the remote worksite having a manipulator or pair of manipulators each with an end effector for manipulating an object at the workspace, such as a body cavity, a controller including a hand control at the control operator's station for remote control of the manipulators, an image capture means, such as a camera, for capturing in real-time an image of the workspace, and image producing means for reproducing a viewable image with sufficient feedback to give the appearance to the control operator of real-time control over the object at the workspace, the improvement wherein means are provided for sensing position of the image capture means relative to the end effector and means are provided for transforming the viewable real-time image into a perspective image with correlated manipulation of the end effector by the hand control means such that the operator can manipulate the end effector and the manipulator as if viewing the workspace in substantially true presence. By true presence, it is meant that the presentation of an image is a true perspective image simulating the viewpoint of an operator. Image transformation according to the invention includes rotation, translation and perspective correction.
The invention will be better understood by reference to the following detailed description in connection with the accompanying drawings.
The image captured at worksite 16 is transmitted through a number of stages which present to operator 14 a real-time image of the object in the workspace 30. In particular, sensor means 21, including optical image capture means 19, provides a view of the manipulators 32, 34 through a camera lens 28, passing such image information via path 13 to an image processor 23. In addition, image sensor position information (camera position) may be passed on path 63 to coordinate transformer 43. (For a fixed camera, the camera position information can be preset). Further, mechanical position sensing means 59, 61 sense the position of manipulators 32, 34 mechanically, passing on the position information to coordinate transformer 43 via path 157.
The image processor 23 includes a rotation and translation means 25, a perspective correction means 29 and a calibration means 27. The rotator is for rotating the image and the translator is for shifting the rotated image. The perspective corrector 29 is primarily for magnifying the image and may include some tilt correction. The calibrator 27 may have various functions, depending upon the type of image input. It is in particular used to calibrate the image to a known reference coordinate system to enable an operator to coordinate motions of the hand controls and the manipulators. After the image has undergone transformation through one or more of these function blocks, the pixel data is passed on path 15 to an imager 31 which drives a video display 20, which in this embodiment is a monoscopic device, and data about the image is passed on to the coordinate transformer 43, whereby any processed image data potentially affecting control of the manipulators (e.g., magnification, rotation, translation) is made available for the control of the manipulators. The details of the processes which may be affected are explained hereinbelow, particularly with respect to calibration.
The coordinate transformer 43 is the principal processor of position information. Camera position information, manipulator position information, and hand control position information are received and processed therein. In particular, the positions of hand controls 24, 26 are sensed by position sensors 51, 51 and passed via path 47 to coordinate transformer 43. After transformation and processing in coordinate transformer 43, control information is applied to position-following servo 45, which drives and controls manipulators 32, 34 with end effectors 39, 41. The operation of each of these blocks will be described in further detail.
In operation, the camera lens 28 captures the image of the object in the actual workspace 30 in a specific orientation on image capture means 19. The video display 20 displays this image so that the operator 14 can view the object as it is manipulated. The operator 14 may then grasp hand control means 24, 26 located in the apparent workspace 22 to carry out the desired manipulations. The hand control means 24, 26 at remote station 12 under instruction of the position-following servo 45 control the manipulators 32, 34 at worksite station 16, which actually manipulate the object in workspace 30. The actual workspace 30 is thus effectively projected back to the remote operator 14 to create the illusion that he is reaching and looking directly into it and controlling the object located in workspace 30. Properly projected, this results in natural and spontaneous control motions by the operator 14, even if he is located in an another room or another extremely remote location.
The problems addressed by the present invention arise from the situation where the camera lens 28 is not placed at the same position in the real workspace 30 relative to the manipulators 32, 34 as the eyes of the control operator viewing the projected image in the �apparent� workspace 22 relative to the hand control means 24, 26. A solution is provided by the present invention.
The telemanipulation system according to the present invention can also be adapted to accommodate stereoscopic viewing.
In operation, camera lens 28 is at the 0� lateral position with respect to the centerline axis 52, such that the camera lens 28 is between left manipulator 32 and right manipulator 34. The face of the camera lens 28 is raised at for example a 45� angle with respect to the plane containing centerline axis 52 and baseline 53. This camera position and orientation is a close approximation to the actual eye position with respect to the manipulators 32 and 34 and represents a base or reference position. The image captured by the camera lens 28 appears as if the operator were looking at the centerpoint 50 while standing over the manipulators 32 and 34 with a 45� angle view into the workspace. Both left manipulator 32 and right manipulator 34 appear in the bottom of the displayed image (proximal to the operator's hand controls), evoking a strong sense of telepresence, which means that the operator senses direct control of manipulators 32 and 34, allowing control with dexterity and rapidity, particularly where there is tactile feedback from the manipulators 32, 34 to the hand control means 24, 26.
In a telemanipulation application in which positioning of elements is difficult due to obstructions, it is often necessary to move the camera lens 28 to different positions result in a different view of the object at the centerpoint 50. Referring to
It should be understood that camera lens 28 and image capture means 19 enjoy a full range of rotation about vertical axis U, and that the angles relative to reference planes and the like of the manipulators and the camera are dictated by the constraints of the operating environment. Additionally, camera lens 28 may be positioned at different angles relative to the plane formed by centerline axis 52 and baseline 53. For example,
If the image is purely monoscopic as depicted in
Rotation means 25 effects static realignment of the manipulators by rotating the real-time image pixel-by-pixel by an angle approximately equal to −θ, according to known methods. After this operation is complete, the left manipulator 32 and right manipulator 34 appear in the bottom of the displayed image (lower half of the projected screen). The camera lens 28 remains stationary, and the displayed image is rotated through image manipulation. Note that if hand control means 24, 26 at the operator's station are positioned above the viewpoint of the control operator, the rotation of the displayed image will correct the displayed image to the point where the manipulators appear in the top of the displayed image (upper half of the projected screen). In either case, the transformation of the displayed image allows the operator to view the manipulators as if emerging from the operator's hand controls. The remapping of the image is effected before actual control can be effected.
In addition to effecting static realignment through digital image transformation, transformation means 25 may effect dynamic synchronization of apparent manipulator tip positions with hand control positions by performing the following coordinate transformation on the video image data. The actual position of the manipulator tips in the workspace 30 can be transformed to an apparent position in the displayed image so that the manipulators will appear to move as though rigidly connected to the operator's hand controls. The altering of the apparent position of the manipulator tips improves the dexterity of the operator in handling the object in the workspace 30. Because the end point of the end effector of the manipulator is known, the point (a,b,c) can be related to the angular position and length of the manipulator, and the point (p,q,r) can be related to the same parameters relative to the hand control using well-known trigonometric relationships between vectors and their endpoints. Thus:
Another method of achieving static reorientation of manipulator positions is to rotate the image capture means about its visual axis. Referring again to the monoscopic system depicted in
To preserve the stereoscopic effect, in the case of stereoscopic imaging, as depicted in
There is a limitation on the amount of visually acceptable rotation of the stereoscopic image capture means 19, 35 and the elevation of the image capture means 19, 35 relative to the plane of the manipulators 32, 34. The elevation cannot be so great as to make it impossible to change the relative view angle of each of the two manipulators relative to one another. Clearly, if angle Φ equals 90� elevation (where the viewing axis 54 lies in the reference plane formed by lines 52 and 53), no useful change in the relative view angle will be achieved by rotating the image. At other angles of elevation, the limitation depends on the separation angle of the manipulators 32, 34 and secondarily on the separation of the stereoscopic lenses 28, 36.
In addition to achieving static reorientation of manipulator positions by rotation of the camera lens 28, the system can effect a dynamic realignment by performing a coordinate transformation through translation means 25. The actual position of the manipulator tips in the workspace 30 can be transformed to an apparent position in the displayed image so that the manipulators will appear to move as though rigidly connected to the operator's hand controls. The altering of the apparent position of the manipulator tips improves the dexterity of the operator in handling the object in the workspace 30.
Referring again to
In operation of a monoscopic telemanipulation system, camera lens 28 and image capture means 19 are rotated about visual axis 54 as described above. The coordinates (a,b,c) in a reference orthogonal Cartesian coordinate system of the three-dimensional workspace 30 define the actual position of the tip of a manipulator, such as left manipulator 32. The following matrix equation relates the desired apparent position (p,q,r in orthogonal Cartesian space) of the manipulator tip in the displayed image in video display 20 to the actual position (a,b,c) of the manipulator tip in the workspace 30:
In the case of stereoscopic imaging, the stereo image capture means 19, 35 is rotated relative to a reference axis 59 parallel to an axis in the plane formed by manipulators 32, 34 intersecting at the centerpoint 50, where the axis is normal to a line bisecting the manipulators and passing through the centerpoint 50, as shown in
In order to ensure that the movements of the manipulators 32, 24 in workspace 30 properly track the movements of the hand controls 24, 26 in the operator's apparent workspace 22 even without complete knowledge of all angles and positions, the operator can establish a calibration reference for manipulators 32, 34 as they are viewed in the displayed image in video display 20 in connection with the position-following servo. Referring to
The system then locks the manipulator 32 into place, opens the control loop by decoupling it from the hand control 24 and instructs the operator 14 to release the hand control 24. The system adjusts the extension L (
The operator then moves the hand control about its pivot point to an angular orientation (ψ, Ω) at which the operator senses that the image of the manipulator appears to emerge from the operator's hand control. Similar to the process described above, the system computes transformations which ensure that there will be no reactive motion by either master or slave when the control loop is closed. The system calculates angular offsets σ1=ψ−ψ′ and σ2=Ω−Ω′ and transforming the apparent position of the master or the slave prior to closing the control loop. The system now records the positions in three-dimensional space of the hand control master (ψ1, Ω1, L1) and the manipulator slave (ψ′1, Ω′1, L′1).
The operator repeats the elements of this process with the remaining reference points of the superimposed graphic element 62. The system may then derive and install the following linearized equation relating incremental changes in the position of the hand control masters 24, 26 to incremental changes in the position of the manipulator slaves 32, 34, using the data sets to determine the coefficients of the equations relating the positions:
In an alternative embodiment, calibration of the manipulators is achieved through virtual movement with the assistance of the system. Referring to
In actual practice, it is preferable for the surgeon, rather than the system, to initiate the calibration process if the invention is being used in laparoscopic surgery. During surgery, the calibration process is being carried out within a patient's abdomen, where there is little room to maneuver. Hence, automatic movements of the manipulator, however small, may be considered less desirable than operator-controlled movements.
Another method for evoking a sense of telepresence in a telemanipulation system involves the use of a specific coordinate transformation to compensate for other changes in the displayed image, such as a lateral shift or a scale change. The camera may undergo a lateral or angular displacement, causing the displayed image to shift. In addition, the camera may be capable of magnifying the object in the workspace, which causes a scale change and a displacement of the apparent pivot point of the manipulator.
α′=arctan [(u′−m)/(v′−n)] and
The above relationships can be extended to include transformations in three dimensions in order to compensate for displacement of the manipulators when the camera lens 28 is rotated about its own visual axis 54, as in the embodiment described with respect to
The invention has now been explained with reference to specific embodiments. Other embodiments will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reference to the present description. For example, the invention can be extended to articulated manipulators with multiple points of rotation and translation or with pivot points at locations not physically attached to the manipulators. It is therefore not intended that this invention be limited, except as indicated by the appended claims.
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Is it safe? Even though Crayola does not publish a detailed and specific ingredient list, they do formulate their crayons so that toddlers can eat a whole box of the stuff without suffering anything more serious than a stomach ache. Crayons consist mainly of paraffin wax and non-toxic pigments. Wax is a major component in any lipstick or chapstick, and crayons' pre-mixed pigments will give you more choices, at less cost than either food coloring (I've tried that too) or the powders and gels cosmetic suppliers will sell you.
This recipe works surprisingly well. The colors last longer, and stick to your lips better than regular commercial lipstick. No need to worry about evidence left on shirt collars, or on cigarette butts carelessly left in ashtrays... although sometimes, depending on the specific crayon color, the pigments might need a little extra smacking of the lips to disperse evenly.
If you're using a chapstick tube (or a lipstick tube of a similar size) and you're making this as a gift, you can download a pop-up, pop art lip balm holder I designed. The template comes in two versions, one with text and the other with an empty speech bubble in case you want to add your own.
You can substitute one type of oil or butter with another, but you can't omit it -- if you did all you would have left is a crayon! And that won't spread on your lips. By the way, butters are oils too -- they're just solid at room temperature.
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can i use crazy art
can i use oil pastels?
I wouldn't.
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Ingredients are listed in step 2
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So I was wanting to try the crayon lipstick using kokum butter, beeswax pastilles, coconut oil, and crayola crayons. Would these ingredients work just as well?
does it matter what brand of oil you use
Can i sell crayola crayons or do i have to get permission from crayola
Not sure if I understand your question... If you want to sell crayons, presumably you'd be buying them wholesale from Crayola and then selling them. The act of buying them wholesale implies that you have permission to resell the crayons... If you want to make lipstick with crayons and then sell that lipstick while advertising that they contain crayola crayons, then yes, I would contact Crayola to get their permission. You'd be using their name and brand to advertise your product. But I would guess they would NOT grant you permission for various brand protection and liability reasons. It's one thing to make your own DYI products for yourself, quite another to sell it.
I found another way. What you do is get Vaseline, get your favorite colored pencil, shave off the color with scissors into a container, mix some Vaseline with it and you got some lipstick.
Did it really work? I can't imagine the pigment from shaved pencils would mix properly with vaseline. Maybe it you grind it really fine, but even then I imagine it would just disperse, not actually dissolve. Also, I know that crayons have wax and pigments, but I'm not sure what's in the colored leads of pencils -- and I wouldn't want to put anything on my lips unless I felt reasonably sure it's safe.
If you want safe then do NOT use any type of vaseline. It is a by-product of petroleum and is HIGHLY, HIGHLYY toxic to the body, especially when people use it on babies. If anyone tells you otherwise then just research it and you'll see. A safer, all natural route is a spoonful of coconut oil per crayon. it works perfectly and makes the lipstick not only moisturizing but makes it go on very smoothly.
I just heard about this from My friend...she uses coconut oil and other essencial oils which aren't needed to make it but she likes them...also says if you add a drop of cinnimon oil...it plumps the lips if you need plumping ...she has amazing lips..that are plump enough without it...seen in the pic.
Yes, you can absolutely use different carrier oils -- personally I'd be cautious with essential oils, they can be very potent and since they're on your lips, they will make it into your body... Not all of them are safe to ingest. Depending on the EO in question and the quantity that may be a problem. It is possible that cinnamon oil makes your lips swell, but to me that would be a proof that too much is being used! A tiny bit for the flavor might be pleasant, but if your lips get noticeably swollen (or "plump") then it's an allergic reaction, and not a very good thing!
Sorry it is good that you have the words but it will be better if you put it with the pictures to see what you are making<3
There are lots of pictures in this instructable! If they're not loading and you can't see them, maybe you should contact Instructables, they might be able to help you troubleshoot.
help! I made my crayon lipstick today but it's not spreading very easily........
"even a heavy lipstick user will only be ingesting a tiny fraction of the stuff a toddler will consume whole"
I find this very unlikely, considering a person that has been wearing lipstick everyday since the average age of 15 will consume roughly 3lbs of lipstick over the course of a life-time. Though girls are doing it younger these days, so 10 years of age is probably more accurate of an average for arguments sake.. The average life-span for women these days is around 86 years.. (of course there will be people who live longer or shorter life-spans)
On average a person would consume 0.06 grams of lipstick per day, so, 0.06 grams x 365 days per year = 21.9 grams per year of lipstick
aggregate exposure. Then,
21.9 grams per year x 76 years of daily lipstick wear = 1664.4 grams or
roughly 1.7 kilograms in a lifetime. For those familiar with pounds
over kilograms, that amounts to about 3.7 pounds in a lifetime.
If anyone's toddler ever consumes nearly 4lbs of crayons (which is about 200 crayons), I call that parental failure.. lol.
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Thank you my friend and I were making this and loved the results so pretty!!!!!!!
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Someone told me that crayola crayons contain a very high amount of lead! Is that true?


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Turn leftover whole-wheat tortillas into crispy crackers—perfect for impromptu guests!
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- 4 whole-wheat flour tortillas
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