I started wearing makeup in my early teens. I was hooked immediately. I loved the way it looked and all the ways it could be applied to achieve different effects. Makeup fascinated me so much it was a major reason I became a cosmetologist.
At the time I wasn’t concerned about the makeup’s ingredients; just the outcome of the application. It wasn’t until much later that I started reading the ingredients and realized that the makeup was all chemicals.
Some of those chemicals were found to be potential carcinogens. So I thought the best thing to do was to make the switch to all natural, nontoxic mineral makeup.
After about a year of wearing this ‘natural mineral’ makeup, I had a severe reaction to it. That is how I found that all natural, nontoxic mineral makeup isn’t all that good for your skin or body, either. A large percentage of what goes on your skin ends up inside your body.
Bismuth oxychloride, an ingredient found in most mineral makeup, is a byproduct of smelting metals like lead, tin, copper, and silver. Bismuth oxychloride can cause skin irritations and hives. You have to wonder how good this is for you.
So I set out to make my own natural, nontoxic makeup.
