Abstract: A pencil, in particular for cosmetic purposes, is made by casting a stick composition into a tubular body, which forms the shaft of the pencil and is preferably seamless, in such a way that a ready-to-use exposed stick point is formed during casting.The shaft may be of wood or plastics. In the case of a wooden shaft, a solid wooden rod of twice the shaft length may be bored out and otherwise worked and then separated along a central plane transverse to the axis of the rod to form a pair of shafts into which the stick composition can subsequently be cast.