DIY Make-up Kit
I switched to minral make-up a few years back because it was less expensive, longer lasting, and looked more natural on my pale skin. I’ve bounced back among a few brands of the last few years and recently I’ve been using Physician’s Formula and purchasing it at Target. It looks great and it’s pretty cheap, but here’s the real issue. When you look at the ingredients listed they are: ACTIVE INGREDIENTS: TITANIUM DIOXIDE, ZINC OXIDE. INACTIVE INGREDIENTS: BORON NITRIDE, ZINC STEARATE, LAUROYL LYSINE, RETINYL PALMITATE, TOCOPHERYL ACETATE, METHYLPARABEN, PROPYLPARABEN, MAY CONTAIN: MICA, IRON OXIDES
A few of these ingredients have some pretty scary warnings. You can learn more about individual ingredients here at Skin Deep. Their “About Us” page provides lots of information including information about the campaign for safe cosmetics, “Skin Deep helps fuel the nationwide Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a coalition of public health, educational, religious, labor, womens, environmental and consumer groups working to protect the health of consumers and workers by requiring the health and beauty industry to phase out the use of dangerous chemicals and replace them with safer alternatives. Through the Campaign, as of May 2007 over 500 companies have joined the effort by signing the Compact for Safe Cosmetics. Environmental Working Group is a founding partner of the Campaign”
So…back to where we were… I have heard that parabens aren’t good for you, so when I saw this ingredient listed I decided to look it up and I found that it doesn’t look good… Methylparaben. On a danger rating scale of 1-10, methylparaben is an 8; yikes! Thus began my campaign to make my own make-up for less money and with known safer ingredients. This is good for my wallet because it’s cheaper. It’s good for the environment because I can buy in bulk (less shipping) and I can reuse my own containers so less plastic to have created and recycled; I always prefer to just reuse. It’s good for me because I know exactly what’s in it and I can make it match my skin tone exactly. Sounds good right? Well, I was shopping for my annual soap and bath fizzy ingredients at Bramble Berry and voila! They happen to make a DIY mineral make-up kit! The kit contains:
Mineral Makeup Foundation Kit contains:
Sericite, Dry Flo, Kaolin clay, Titanium Dioxide, Honeyed Beige mica, Soft Beige Mica, Cappuccino Mica, Luster Black Mica, Brown Oxide, Ultramarine Pink Oxide, Ultramarine Blue, Brick Red Oxide, Black Oxide, 3 empty containers as well as a luxuriously soft kabuki style brush.
No parabens in site and the kaolin clay helps absorb oil, which is perfect for my oily, sensitive and acne-prone skin. Woot! So, I’m putting in my order today so that I can get to work on Christmas projects and start making my own make-up. They also have a kit for making your own lipstick and if I like making my own foundation I’ll try that next.
Wish me luck…
