All tagged clean beauty

Mascara

Conventional mascaras can contain toxic ingredients like carbon black or black 2. For a long time, natural mascaras couldn’t compete with their conventional counterparts. Avoid waterproof mascaras as these are more likley to contain PFAs.

Paris Laundry

Paris Laundry is an clean beauty store (online and brick & mortar in Savannah) that has high standards, supports cancer research, and incorporates environmentally conscious practices.

Best Clean Beauty & Personal Care Products At Whole Foods

Shopping for personal care and beauty products while picking up groceries can be so convenient, that its tempting to just grab whatever you see. The personal care and beauty items in Whole Foods must meet certain requirements determined by Whole Foods. The requirements include a ban on over 100 ingredients like parabens, phthalates, formaldehyde donors, oxybenzone and EDTA. Additionally, organic claims must be backed up by a third-party certification. There are ingredients that are not Whole Foods banned list, but can still be harmful and should be avoided like fragrance, phenoxyethanol, and polysorbate 20.

Non-Toxic Makeup With SPF 40

Ilia Super Serum Skin Tint comes in a dropper and it’s thin, spreadable consistency allows for a feathery fingertip application. Skin tint uses the safest available sunscreen ingredient, non-nano zinc oxide. This natural and non-toxic makeup has a truly unique serum formula and beautiful medium coverage.

The Highlight

Unlike many highlighters, Living Luminizer is sheer without glitter, making it wearable for day or night. Living Luminizer is perfect for achieving a dewy complexion. Apply to cheekbones, brow bone, eyelids, cupid’s bow, and center of the lips or anywhere you want the light to reflect.

Eyeshadow

Swift Shadows are pressed, not heated, and therefore retain minerals that are good for the skin. Formulated without talc, typically the first ingredient found in eyeshadow, and the appearance is never chalky. Buriti oil and jojoba oil keep lids form drying out.

Body Butter

Oy-l Body Butter is a super hydrating, rich body lotion that is perfect for legs and body post shower.

 Oy-l avoids commonly used harmful ingredients and sticks to a purposeful formula.

Eyeliner

Non toxic eyeliner is high on the priority list since it often gets into your eyes. Finding a natural liquid eyeliner with enough pigment and staying power is a challenge. Many eyeliners get their deep black pigment from unsafe ingredients like carbon black or D&C Black #2. Carbon black is color made from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. It is toxic, possibly carcinogenic, and the FDA has even found carbon black unsafe for cosmetics used around the eyes. Instead of using harmful dyes, Expressionist uses natural iron oxides as a colorant.

Makeup Brush Wash

Cleaning makeup brushes is one of the most overlooked but important steps in skincare and should be done at least monthly. I know, one more thing to do, but your makeup will go on better and skin will be cleaner and clearer. It takes three minutes and is so worth it. I clean my brushes at night before bed, and they are dry and ready to use by morning.