I've recently gotten into natural, non-toxic make-up -henceforth makeup for ease and convenience. In my quest for truly non-toxic products, I found natural means different ingredients to different people. Others are concerned about being cruelty-free - a worthy goal - but without caring much about the safety of beauty products for general health. Others are the opposite. Ideally, all beauty products would be cruelty-free and non-toxic, but until Monsanto gives up its hold on US agriculture and Trump's hair looks great, we have to settle for sleuthing each and every product we encounter.
I also learned natural doesn't mean products are going to be good for skin or not toxic for you. There are plenty of toxic, natural ingredients in nature - poisonwood oils anyone?
As a result of my research, I came across multiple brands I had never heard of. I also saw some familiar ones. Origins is not as non-toxic as I'd thought previously. This is a brand I'd been using for years, albeit sporadically as just recently, at the ripe old age of 39, I started using makeup regularly again. Why, you ask? Why the sudden interest in makeup when I wasn't interested since my first makeup experiences in early adolescence? (With the nasty smells and icky applications of the early nineties, that past interest died a quiet death.)
It all started when I received Origins trial skincare sets for my birthday. So exciting! I'd mentioned I loved Checks & Balances frothy face wash and I was only too glad to start using it again. It's the best face wash I've ever used. It leaves my skin feeling clean, refreshed, not dry, and a little goes a looong way. I bet that trial size is going to last me six months.
My Origins gift also includes Andrew Weil skincare products, which smell fine with essential oils, but stings my skin. After washing my face every day, I felt so clean and moisturized. There was this ball coming up soon and alas, my Origins makeup was too old. Off to get new makeup. The subject of my budget-conscious (hastily made) natural make-up choices is best left for another post.
This post is about the natural, non-toxic brands I was exposed to and I either ordered (first three) or I'm ordering samples from in the near future (the rest):
- Honeybee Gardens (ordered samples, currently using several lipstick colors, including Burlesque, and the mineral pressed foundation)
- Red Apple Lipstick (several sample shades, including Back To The Fuchsia, plus the Rallye Lip Balm)
- Pure Anada (ordered several liquid foundations and two lipstick colors, including Sienna)
- Physicians Formula (bought at my local drugstore)
- Alima Pure
- Pacifica
- Silk Naturals
- Zosimos Botanicals
- Living Nature
- Zuzu Luxe
- Ecco Bella
- Lotus
