Choose Natural Makeup For Your
Beautiful New Look

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Natural makeup is not usually found advertised in the most popular women's magazines. We can easily find ads for makeup from the major brands and they are hard to resist. Big companies can afford to do advertising using beautiful celebrities or models, all air brushed and beautiful, in clever and appealing ads carefully designed to convince us their makeup works best.

And it's working. We're buying it. It's easy to get caught up in the ads, they do make their makeup sound good. Unfortunately we do not see very many advertisements like this for natural makeup. These are mostly smaller companies with smaller budgets. But that doesn't mean they aren't good. I've included a few companies below for you to check out.

Whatever our idea of beauty is, we hope this new makeup will help us get there. The cosmetic industry is growing and making money.

But what most of us are not paying enough attention to in our quest for beauty is the ingredients that go in to this makeup and very often the animal testing that is involved.

Problems With Conventional Makeup

Animal Testing

Some very popular brands of cosmetics use animal testing for their products. That mascara or eye liner you use to make your eyes stand out may have been used in an animals eyes to test for safety. This and worse are tests are performed everyday.

Now of course we want our products tested for safety but there are other ways to do this. Natural makeup companies use them all the time and so do many other cosmetic companies but some companies have resisted change. I think you would be surprised which companies continue to use animal testing.

If you care about animals and want to end this type of testing, learn more about this through Caring Consumer or check out my page on animal testing. These poor animals live horrible and sometimes painful lives often for the sake of our beauty.

Do we really want that?

Questionable Ingredients

Have you read the label on the back of any of your makeup products lately? Many brands of makeup use synthetic and sometimes toxic chemicals for their ingredients.

My big concern with the use of chemicals even the safer ones is the almost constant exposure our skin gets to them everyday in combinations that no one knows how they will affect us. It just makes sense to me to keep chemical exposure to a minimum and to take control of areas that I can do something about.

An experiment

If you really haven't read the labels on makeup, try this. Go to the Skin Deep website. (See the link below.) Here you will find makeup from companies large and small and you can easily find out information about their ingredients and often if they do animal testing.

Look at the ingredients for one of the safe brands. These are probably brands not as well known to many of us. Now go to the end of the list and look at the unsafe makeup, their scores are listed in red. Are there brands here you recognize or use? Look at the ingredients.

If you have makeup you'd like to check do a search for it. Is it there? Where does it fall on the list? Are the ingredients ones you feel safe using on your skin? Do they do animal testing?

This link for Skin Deep will take you to their opening page, click through to the database for makeup foundations. Check it out. I'll wait right here.

Are you thinking it's time to try natural makeup.

Have you tried mineral makeup yet?. It is some of the safest makeup around and now it can even be found in liquid form. I am a convert having been a long time cream foundation fan. Read more about mineral makeup.

Choices in natural makeup.

The best natural makeup companies are more concerned with providing safe, natural, ethical products and animal testing has no place in their philosophy.

Gabriel Cosmetics

This is a skin care and cosmetic company that has been working on their botanical formulations since 1991. They use 100% natural ingredients (no animal ingredients).

Healthy ingredients in cosmetics that provide smooth coverage and beauty. They offer two lines of natural makeup, Gabriel Color and ZuZu Luxe their luxury
spa line.

All Natural Cosmetics

They carries several different lines of natural makeup. They make shopping easy because they do the checking for us. The products they carry have to meet their standards.

No animal testing.
No synthetic chemicals.
No pesticide or herbicide residues.
No artificial colors.
No artificial preservatives.

Plenty of samples available so we can try it before paying for the full size plus experimenting is always fun.

Dr. Hauschka

This company believes that "You don’t have to sacrifice your healthy skin to look your very best." they are committed to being environmentally sound, using fair trade practices, no animal testing and giving back to the world. All that in skin and beauty products that are created with a unique and holistic approach to skin care.

After a visit to their site you may come away with new ideas to skin care.

After looking at the above sites and do you feel like natural makeup is too expensive? Then make sure to check out Burt's Bees.

Burt's Bees

Here you will find natural cosmetics that are reasonably priced. Sheer natural looking coverage is available with their tinted moisturizer and for a more finished look try Vanishing Facial Powder.

Burt's Bees has had a commitment to provide natural skin care that's as good for us as it is for the environment and I hope that continues. With a buyout by AEA Investors, new products and promotions have been seen and this has put Burt's Bees in local stores making them more well known and more easily obtainable than most natural skin care companies.

I have mixed feelings when this type of thing happens but I'm hoping they remain true to their original ideas.

The next time you are wanting to try a new look or maybe improve on what your are already using consider using natural makeup products first.