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#Bare escentuals flawless definition mascara review skin#

Preservatives and pH adjusters prevent (or at least limit) the growth of microbes.Some waxes, fatty acids, and surfactants act as emulsifiers to mix water and water-soluble ingredients with non-water soluble ingredients.Fats like oils and butters provide moisturizing benefits other ingredients with humectant/emollient/“skin-conditioning” properties include glycerin, silicone and some plant extracts.Waxes, gums, polymers, fibers and starches stabilize and thicken the formula some form a film on the lashes and provide “volumizing” benefits fibers “lengthen” lashes.

Pigments provide color (iron oxides, ultramarines, titanium dioxide, mica, etc.).

Solvents or diluents are the unifying base for the formula (water, isododecane, alcohols, glycerin, propylene glycol, etc.).

I’m no cosmetic chemist, but my basic understanding of mascara formulas is that they usually include the following: And some ingredients that are known to be toxic are permitted for use under certain “restrictions.” Cosmetics can contain ingredients– including natural ones– that have little or no safety data to back them up. They often have super long lists of ingredients, many of which are synthetic, impossible to pronounce, and problematic. Honestly, cosmetics are my least favorite things to research. Mascara ingredients range from familiar and harmless things, like water, to head-scratching ones like fragrance/parfum, which I was surprised to find in most mascara formulas. You’ll even find one Good Stuff pick that you can buy at the drugstore!Īnd, as always, I have lists of Sneaky Stuff and Bad Stuff, including some of your beloved favorites (sorry!).

#Bare escentuals flawless definition mascara review skin#

Because we’re talking mascara-and not some product that you smear all over your skin or put in your mouth-I think that using Okay Stuff truly is okay in this case. I finally am able to recommend several mascaras that I consider to be Good Stuff or Okay Stuff. We are finally done with our research for this new Safe Product Guide, and thank you all so much for your suggestions–you guys put a bunch of brands on my radar that turned out to be Good Stuff. I guess I’m not alone, because many readers and clients have asked me to recommend the best non-toxic mascara. I don’t often wear makeup, but with just a couple of swoops of a mascara wand, I look and feel refreshed and more put together. It’s also a very slender brush and I like mine to have a little meat on them, you know? Like they hit the gym six days a week.Mascara is kind of magical, especially if you’re like me and are hashtag-blessed with stubby, pale, stick-straight eyelashes.

Typically, these wands actually hurt my eyelashes (they have feelings, too!), and I prefer the softer, fiber brushes that feel like they glide over my lashes.

The first thing I noticed about this particular mascara was the tapered plastic wand - which, if I’m being perfectly honest, I usually hate. It was great while it lasted, I would think to myself as I browsed the aisles at Sephora, but that was a different time in my life. Don’t get me wrong, I have loved each and every one of them. Double the length! A curl that went on for miles! A faux-lash finish! But, like with most flings, I get restless. Each of them gave me something the others couldn’t. Even a few fiber lash mascaras have been in the mix. I’ve had hot, steamy love affairs with every tube from Diorshow to Benefit They’re Real! to Marc Jacobs Velvet Noir. When BareMinerals Flawless Definition Mascara landed on my desk, I felt like I had been set up on a blind date I never asked for.