Can You Make the Switch to Clean Beauty? I’m Guilty of Being Quite Dirty!
I remember the second year I started Musings of a Muse the beauty world seemed obsessed with green beauty and parabens. Everyone was trying to avoid anything and everything that had parabens in it. This was the year Cargo Beauty launched their Plant Collection of makeup and also, the year that Physicians Formula introduced their Organic Collection.
The past two months it seems like the beauty world is getting back into green, organic-friendly products but it’s no longer “green”, it’s now all about clean beauty. This means brands are turning to product releases that don’t include toxins and irritating ingredients that can be absorbed into your blood stream. Did you know the delicate skin around the lid of your eye is one of the thinnest on your body? That means anything you put around that area is easily absorbed. This is why you should never use eye cream on your eyelids. Imagine the chemicals and dyes we use daily when applying our eyeshadow, lipstick, and even our foundation which is being absorbed into our blood steam. The idea is scary but actually going clean with beauty isn’t always an easy task. I’d liken it to quitting smoking or going on a diet. It’s not easy just to give up certain beauty products you know and love even though you know they aren’t good for you!
And when you’re presented with endless bad options it’s a little more difficult to go with a cleaner one that have fewer options. Sadly, that’s a fact in the beauty world. There are literally hundreds of eyeshadow options out there but how many are actually clean? Likewise for lipstick, foundations, concealers, etc…! I think going clean with your beauty would be a hell of a lot easier if we had more options available to us but the market as is is pretty scarce.
If you are going clean, rejoice, because there are a lot of options popping up daily that will help you along the way to using cleaner, healthier options on your face, lips, eyes, and body!
Here’s a few to start!
A lot of people have fallen in love with Josie Maran’s skincare and makeup but what they might not realize is that her entire line is “clean” and organic with botanical ingredients! Even her packaging is recyclable and biodegradable packaging! She’s a true pioneer in the clean beauty world not to mention her she makes you realize that going clean doesn’t mean forsaking good makeup and skincare!
One of her latest launches, the Vibrancy Argan Oil Fresh Face Paint Palette is a creamy quad of shades that contain argan oil and fruit extracts and are formulated without parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, or triclocarban. The shades can be used on your cheeks, face, or eye!
Thankfully enough one of my very favorite cleansing balms is also clean! Farmacy Green Clean Makeup Meltaway Cleansing Balm with Echinacea GreenEnvy (TRY it! You’ll love it!) is a soft cleansing balm that easily removes makeup and features sunflower oil to keep skin hydrated and smooth. It leaves all the good ingriendets in and removes all the toxic ones like parabens, formaldehydes, and formaldehyde-releasing agents as well as phthalates, and mineral oil.
Deodorant is always challenging for me as I described in my recent post about Kopari Beauty Coconut Deodorant! It’s a damn dilemma getting a natural deo that actually keeps me smelling fresh and clean but this one did the trick! I was left smelling like yummy coconut all day (By the way, I have a coupon code available for 25% off using MUSE25 on koparibeauty.com on first individual purchases or subscription ones!)
Who said concealer can’t be clean? RMS Un Cover-Up Concealer can act like a concealer or a foundation thanks to it super pigmented formula! Plus it contains zero parabens, mineral oil, formaldehydes and other icky stuff!
Skin feeling less than smooth? REN Clean Skincare Ready Steady Glow Daily AHA Tonic is a daily toner that acts to exfoliate skin and restore your glow naturally. This exfoliating formula is vega, free of gluten, and used sourced board and recycling for its packaging as well as natural inks.
It’s called Clean but did you know that Clean Fragrances are actually clean beauty? All of Clean’s fragrances are cruelty free, vegan, gluten free, phthalate free, non-toxic, and comes in Eco-conscious packaging.
Do you find it difficult staying away from beauty products you know are bad for you?
Have you made any attempts to go “clean” with your makeup and skincare?
Do share some of your clean beauty picks!