Next time your daughter or wife leaves their lipstick or skin care products laying around, pick it up and read the ingredients. As you make your way through the list of what makes up the product, you may see "Zea Mays" - corn's scientific name. Hair products, bath products and hair dyes all contain corn in some way. Corn starch, oil, meal, powder, germ, extract, kernel and acid are all some of the corn-based materials used by the cosmetics industry to help beautify the world.