Re: who invented the first manufactured lipstick and when.

Coloring lips is an old thing. Ancient Egyptian women (2500-2300 B.C) were the first to paint their lips red. They used charcoal to line their eyes and red dyes made from crushed earth to paint their lips.

There might have been earlier cultures, since cosmetics and painting of faces is as old as human history. But the Egyptians keept records and even recipies and it was the Egyptian women who distinctivly used colored make-up to enhance their facial features.

The first lipcolor on grease base (and the color came of a snail the purpur snail) was used by french nobility during the reign of Louis the 14th.

The first mechanical lipstick was manufactured in 1920. you find the entire history of the lipstick in Jessica Pallingtons Book "Lipstick." You'll also find useful information about lipsticks and cosmetics in "10,000 years of Fashion" by Francois Leon Lois Borcher.