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Take The Clean Makeup Makeover Challenge (So You Can Finally Ditch The Toxic Ingredients Lurking In Your Makeup Bag)

Most women have the following products in their makeup bags: primer and foundation, blush, bronzer, concealer, powder, blotting papers, brow filler, lipstick, lip gloss, lip balm, eyeshadow, eyeliner, and mascara. You might be surprised to learn what kinds of toxins and harmful ingredients are present in the cosmetic you use every day. Since you’re going to use those products, anyway, so why not use the cleanest, most organic versions of those products.

Some of the dangerous chemicals commonly found in makeup, cosmetics, and skin care products include:

  • Lead – a neurotoxin
  • Retinyl Palmitate – a known carcinogen
  • Butylated Hydroxyanisole – a preservative disrupting hormone
  • Nitrosamines MEA And TEA – may cause cancer
  • Parabens – suspected endocrine disrupters
  • Dibutyl Phthalate – reproductive toxicant
  • DMDM Hydantoin – a known carcinogen
  • Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons - may cause cancer
  • Siloxane – reproductive toxicant
  • Sodium Laureth Sulfate – may cause cancer
  • Triclosan - endocrine disrupter

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. You don’t have to contaminate your body in order to beautify it. Check out the following beauty brands. They all feature chemical-free, all-natural beauty products, cosmetics, skin and hair care products whose ingredients responsibly source their ingredients and responsibly pamper your skin.

 

Primers & Foundations

Annmarie Gianni's Minerals Multi-Purpose Foundation

These products provide you with the coverage you want without chemicals and harsh ingredients. Their products are naturally beautiful, clean, and non-toxic. The all-natural ingredients look natural on your skin, while also covering up imperfections and evening out skin tone. Their mineral powders work together with your moisturizer, facial oil or serum to make a custom liquid foundation. It’s made with only four simple, safe ingredients: zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, iron oxide, and mica.

100% Pure: Healthy Skin Foundation with Super Fruits SPF 20

Your face will luxuriate in the rich, creamy, lightweight texture and full coverage of this fruit dyed makeup. It artfully conceals imperfections and leaves you with perfect looking skin. The cream to matte powder finish creates a velvety soft feel. The formula is packed with the antioxidant power of super fruits, vitamins and other nutrients that nourish your skin. These amazing foundations get their color from fruit and vegetable pigments rather than from synthetic dyes.

Vapour Atmosphere Soft Focus Foundation

Vapour manufactures all their beauty products according to their company ethos. That means each product is guaranteed for purity and contains the purest organic, natural ingredients. They take pride in their products for being 100% natural, 70% organic, and having 30% mineral pigment and essential oils. They’ve even earned the USDA organic seal and guarantee that their foundation delivers an airbrushed look with no toxic chemicals, parabens, preservatives, nanoparticles, irradiation, fillers or animal testing.

Alima Pure Satin Matte Foundation

Simple ingredients like mica, iron oxides, zinc oxides, and titanium dioxide make an amazing combination in this smooth, satiny foundation. When applied, this foundation creates even layers of smooth, comfortable coverage. Even skin tone and complete coverage can be yours with this silky foundation. Available in 45 shades, it gives you honeyed texture while providing protection from harmful UV rays.

RMS Beauty – "Un" Cover-up

This one does double duty as either a concealer or foundation. Either way, it reveals healthier skin instead of just covering it up. The lightweight, hydrating formula minimizes pores and rejuvenates skin. It’s flawless coverage without hard-to-pronounce ingredients. The company prides itself on using only all-natural, organic ingredients like, coconut oil, shea butter, beeswax, propolis extract, and cocoa butter.

Beauty Counter Tint Skin Complexion Coverage

This lightweight, creamy foundation seamlessly, effortlessly blends with your complexion to produce an even skin tone. Its natural moisturizing agents reduce fine lines and wrinkles. You can even adjust the coverage level to create the customized look you want and need. Beauty Counter’s Tint Skin Complexion Coverage uses only safe ingredients like, water, glycerin, sweet almond oil, and vanilla fruit.

Powder

W3LL PEOPLE Bio Brightener Invisible Powder

This silky, translucent powder is ultrafine and designed to give you invisible coverage that blurs fine lines and diminishes imperfections. Its translucency means it works with all skin tones to create a natural, flawless coverage with a youthful glow. It’s perfect alone or as a foundation setter.  This luxurious powder leaves no trace behind, absorbs excess oil, is hypoallergenic, chemical and cruelty free, EWG verified and has simple, natural ingredients including, mica, silica, pearl powder, aloe leaf, and is USDA-certified organic.

Concealers

Juice Beauty Phyto-Pigments Perfecting Concealer

Formulated from a blend of fruit stem cells, organic coconut oil, organic plant waxes, and rose phyto-pigment, this wonderful concealer gives you the crease-free coverage you want without the chemicals you don’t want. Banish dark circles under the eyes and other skin imperfections while visibly reducing fine lines and wrinkles with Juice Beauty’s Phyto-Pigments Perfecting Concealer.

Tarte Maracuja Creaseless Concealer

If you’re looking for a concealer that combines full coverage with creamy smoothness, this one will deliver. It won’t crease or flake, and is made of all-natural, beneficial ingredients. Maracuja Creaseless Concealer is made from maracuja, Vitamins C and E, and soothing mineral pigments. It’s well-known for its ability to diminish flaws, conceal dark circles, and smooth out skin tones and undertones. These pure ingredients offer complete concealing without harmful contents.

100% Pure Fruit Pigmented Brightening Concealer

This concealer provides all the coverage you need to reduce dark circles and eliminate other blemishes. It’s made from caffeine-rich green tea, green coffee and powerful, anti-aging vitamins, antioxidants and skin nourishing rosehip oil. Even the pigment ingredients are clean, pure, and all-natural because they get their pigments from fruits and vegetables. This concealer contains no harsh, synthetic chemicals, and no artificial fragrances or any other toxins. When they say 100% pure, they mean it.

Vapour Organic Beauty Illusionist Concealer

This concealer also brightens, evens out skin tone, and corrects other facial blemishes. It does all that in a lightweight, breathable concealer with light reflecting minerals. Vapour Organic Beauty’s Illusionist Concealer contains chemical-free, all-natural ingredients like sunflower seed oil, beeswax, castor seed oil, silica, and mica. It provides all the coverage you need without feeling heavy or greasy.

W3LL People Bio-Correct Multi-Action Concealer

This power-packed concealer provides superior coverage that banishes skin imperfections. Its ultra-light, texture blends easily into skin and sets like a dream without a crease in sight. It has a hidden bonus, too, because it depuffs while it conceals. W3LL People’s Bio-Correct Multi-Action Concealer is made from healthy, certified organic ingredients like arabica coffee seed oil, pumpkin seed oil, ginseng root extract, algae extract and iron oxides.

Bronzers

Thrive Causemetics Sun Chaser Blur and Sculpt Bronzing Powder

Lightweight enough to feel like it’s not even there, this bronzer provides seamless, easy-to-blend coverage that’s infused with Vitamin B5. That means it hydrates while it smooths and creates a shimmering, radiant effect. This bronzing powder is also streak-free and is made to hydrate and smooth your skin. Its vegan and cruelty free, complements a wide range of complexions, and is made with ingredients like zinc stearate, tin oxide, water, and iron oxides.

Pacifica SUNDREAMS LOTUS INFUSED BRONZER DUO

Beautiful skin is yours with this highlighting bronzer that gives your skin a sun-kissed, healthy glow. It’s long lasting and won’t smear or wear off. Pacifica Sundreams Lotus Infused Bronzer Duo gets its pretty glow from all-natural ingredients like coconut, lotus, mica, coconut fruit juice, capryloyl glycerin, titanium dioxide, and iron oxide. Many of its ingredients are also eco-certified and good for your skin.

Blushes

Glossier Cloud Paint

Are you looking for a blush made from collagen, mica, an blurring powdered pigments that gives you superior coverage? Those all-natural ingredients combine to create a sheer, seamless blush that highlights your cheekbones and makes them pop. These easy cover blushes are designed to be pillowy-soft. Their gel-cream formula is so sheer that it’s almost impossible to apply too much. You’ll also love the wide range of flattering colors that hydrate your cheeks for a fresh-faced look.

100% Pure Fruit Pigmented Punk Princess Palette

Antioxidant-rich, vitamin-packed color makes this vegan blush a makeup must-have. Your cheeks will pop with beautiful, sheer, dramatic colors. It contains healthy ingredients like, avocado butter, cocoa seed butter, rosehip seed oil, Goji berry extract, and beneficial mica. This gorgeous, hydrating blush will leave your cheeks subtly highlighted and radiantly glowing.

Blotting Paper

LiveFresh Natural Oil Absorbing Blotting Sheets

Blot excess oil without ruining your makeup with these absorbent blotting sheets. It won’t smudge your makeup, but it will leave you with a refreshing look and feel. Each sheet is carefully infused with powerful, green tea antioxidants that soothe and freshen your skin. It’s eco-friendly, natural abaca leaf fibers are woven into a fine linen texture your skin will appreciate. Reduce shine and soothe your face at the end of the day with these oil absorbing blotting sheets.

Lipstick, Lip Gloss, and Lip Balm

Axiology Organic Lipsticks

Vibrant colors and creamy, matte-based formulas make these lipsticks, lip-worthy. The formula is nourishing and all-natural so your lips stay sot and delectably kissable. Ingredients include organic castor oil, mica, candelilla wax, organic avocado butter, and sweet orange oil. They keep their rich color for hours and provide a smooth, long-lasting finish you’ll fall in love with.

100% Pure Lip Glazes

Fruit pigments and chemical-free ingredients like avocado butter, cocoa seed butter, and a plethora of fruit extracts and pigments give this lip glaze its sheer, stay-put, gorgeous color. The ingredients are 100% pure and give your lips pouty, sheer coverage that lasts for hours. It’s all-natural and completely vegan so you get the sheer coverage you want without the harsh chemicals you don’t want.

Beauty Counter Lip Sheer

Each individual shade is color-tested to ensure great coverage and long-lasting staying power. There isn’t a synthetic fragrance or harsh chemical in any of the ingredients. Beauty Counter keeps its promise to provide you with superior makeup made with safe ingredients and better beauty with elements like jojoba esters, castor seed oil, vanilla fruit extract, iron oxides, and carnauba wax.

RMS Beauty Lip2check

Certified organic ingredients combine with over twenty years of makeup experience to create hydrating, mineral rich color that creates plump lips and a beautiful smile. The nourishing organic ingredients include, coconut oil, castor seed oil, beeswax, shea butter, and rosemary extract. Responsible sourcing and smooth application make this lipstick a breeze to apply and a dream to wear.

Jane Iredale Puremoist Lipstick

Precise application and a variety of colorful shades mean this lipstick provides the outstanding coverage you want with none of the harsh chemical formulations you want to avoid. Moringa butter, coffee seed extract, and Vitamins A and C give this soothing lipstick its antioxidant power. Orange peel wax, and sunflower seed oils protect, hydrate, and condition lips with long-wearing, luxurious, colors.

Tata Harper Volumizing Lip & Cheek Tint

A subtle pop of color and full, plump, lips and cheeks are yours when you choose this two-in-one lip and cheek tint that moisturizes, reduces fine lines, and creates volume right where you want it. Your lips and cheeks will look younger, your skin and lips will feel pampered and conditioned, and you’ll love the pure ingredients like coconut fruit extract, mica, Spanish lavender extract, olive oil and jojoba esters.

Brow Fillers

Jane Iredale PureBrow Brow Gel

You’ll love the way this brow gel and filler tames and conditions your eye brows. You’ll get a smooth, natural look and feel from all-natural ingredients like algae extract, beeswax, panthenol, wheat protein, chromium oxide greens, honeysuckle flower extract, and jojoba seed oil.

 

Beautycounter Color Define Brow Pencil

With Brow Pencils designed to create brows that look thick and natural, this brow pencil is perfect for filling in gaps and imperfections, and evening out color. Hydrogenated fish oil and vegetable oils, rosemary leaf extract, sunflower seed oil, and mica help this brow pencil glide on smoothly for even, unnoticeable coverage right where you need it.

Glossier Boy Brow

This brow pencil takes everything into account from full, undetectable coverage to ease of use. It’s creamy, wax-based formula is made from beeswax and carnauba wax, natural fats like lecithin, and collagen-based conditioners. It even comes in four shades, so it’s easy to find the perfect match you need.

Mascara

Pacifica Aquarian Gaze

This mascara comes with a specially designed brush that provides complete coverage, and the longest lashes you’ve ever had. It separates and lifts each lash with its nourishing formula. You’ll get unbelievable length and volume from this coconut oil, kelp extract and Vitamin B-based formulation. It also hydrates as it lengthens with good-for-you, all-natural ingredients like carnauba wax, coconut oil, and iron oxides.

Physician’s Formula Organic Wear

Only the purest ingredients go into this lash-defining mascara. You’ll get up to five times the coverage of other mascaras with no chemical additives or preservatives. The fruit water, iron oxide, soybean oil, aloe leaf extract, and rice extracts combine to create a smudge-free, flake-free, dye-free mascara that makes your lashes look full and feel soft to the touch.

100% Pure Fruit Pigmented Ultra Lengthening Mascara

Pure fruit pigments like blackberry, raspberry, and black current extract together with cacao seed butter, and pearl powder give this lengthening mascara its natural look and feel. While it lengthens and separates, it also conditions for healthy lashes. Colored with black tea, berry and cocoa pigments, the color lasts forever and your lashes get the pampering they deserve.

Ecco Bella FlowerColor Mascara

Create alluring, attention-grabbing lashes with full, voluminous fringe and natural looking lashes that don’t spike or clump together. You get all the power of flower color in this all-natural mascara that’s made from pure, flower-based ingredients and pigments. No stinging alcohol and no shellac are included in the vegan, gluten-free, fragrance-free, paraben-free formula. Just complete, smudge-free color you’ll love.

 

Eyeliner

Jane Iredale Eye Pencil

These beautiful eye pencils are famous for their smooth gliding formula that promises not to pull and tug on the delicate skin around your eyes. Their long-lasting color comes from their mineral base. Conditioning oils like jojoba, macadamia seed, mango, and meadowfoam combine with iron and titanium oxide to create the smooth, easy glide they’re famous for.

W3LL PEOPLE Hypnotist Eyeliner Black

If you want hypnotic eyes, this long-lasting formula is just what you need. Ideal for sensitive eyes, the non-toxic formulation glides on smoothly and defines evenly and precisely. Its beneficial ingredients provide excellent coverage and include chemical-free elements like vegetable oil, jojoba seed oil, mica, and iron and titanium oxides.

Juice Beauty Phyto-Pigments Precision Eye Pencil

This eye-pencil formula is derived from plants and enhanced with shea butter. It’s easy to control, versatile, cruelty free, vegan, and long lasting. It’s also rich in antioxidants and easy to blend due to its soft, flexible tip. That makes it easy to create fine lines and thicker, more dramatic lines for glamorous looks. It contains no petroleum, artificial dyes, or synthetic fragrances, and is never tested on animals.

Pacifica Smolder Eye Lining Gel

Without feeling waxy or tacky, this eye lining gel gives you a smooth, creamy finish. It’s smudge-free and stays put until you take it off.  The rich gel formula covers like a dream and makes your eyes look huge and luminous. It’s made from natural ingredients like tin oxide, mica, coconut water, coconut oil, water-based emollients, and iron oxides.

Eyeshadow

100% Pure Fruit Pigmented Eye Shadow

Available in the purest neutral shades, this shadow is shimmering, easy coverage in one smooth swipe. There’s not a chemical in sight because this creamy eye shadow is 100% natural, 100% vegan and 100% gluten free. It’s made from mica and fruit extracts that give it its shine and sparkle.

W3ll People Eyeshadow

Deep, rich, organic pigments make this eyeshadow long-lasting and impressive. It looks and feels natural because it’s made from all-natural ingredients like mica, iron oxide and titanium oxide. Go from day to night with this smooth, easy-to-apply formula that feels as good as it looks.

Why A Well-Organize, Toxic-Free Makeup Bag Matters

Organization and smart choices are the keys to maintaining a clean, pure makeup bag. But your makeup bag has to do more than hold the foundations and colors that flatter your skin type and highlight your best features. It also needs to hold the cleanest, purest products you can find to make your skin feel good while it looks good.