Green Skin

Girls, this one is for you.

Cosmetics.

Now, I must admit, I don’t own many natural cosmetics, mainly because of that darn price tag. But I’m easing my way into it, one piece at a time. But I’ve found a very useful website called cosmeticdatabase.org. You can type in the brand name of your cosmetic and see where their products rate on a hazard scale of 1 to 10. Genius! Make use of it! I was hoping they might have something like a ‘Top 10’ list, but I don’t see anything like that. But as long as you know what brand or product you are researching, you should find some answers. I’m seeing Estée Lauder and L’Oréal products with some pretty high hazard ratings here… Revlon, Avon, CoverGirl. Yeah, all the big ones are getting pretty red scores. What are some safer ones? Jane Iredale has low scores, as does Burt’s Bees. I’m not seeing many 0’s or 1’s in these scores though. A company called Miessence has scores all in the green! (Green good, yellow OK, red bad) as does Organic Essance, although these products seem to be mostly moisturizers and exfoliants. Avalon has good scores (green or yellow) on all but about 20 of their products (out of 388) and Jason cosmetics have decent ratings on all but a few products. I could be here all day. Go type in your make-up and see how you’re doing!