Whats in your makeup products?

What is really in your makeup, do you really know what you are putting on your skin and where it comes from? Now a days people don’t read the labels as much as we used too, as we think all the ingredients would have been approved and checked; so there is no need for us to read the labels as we think it is safe, more than likely they all are but some ingredients are weirder than you might think and would still have been approved.

Let’s start off with lipstick, main ingredients are wax, alcohol, oil, and pigment. We all love a lush red lip stick, the red dye used is actually crushed parasitic beetles, and these are perfectly safe for our lips so no need to panic. The reason the beetles are red is because the beetles love to eat red berries that’s why there perfect for colouring lipstick. Another weird thing is sheep grease, ‘(New York-based dermatologist Dr. Marina Peredo. "Applied directly to the skin, it can reduce roughness and cracking and continued use shows overall increased skin smoothness.")’

Next is perfumes, Perfumes are made from plants and plant extracts along with other ingredients but worse of all is whale vomit.. ‘ambergris, a musky compound that’s regurgitated by whales.’ It is used in the more fancier and expensive perfumes. The whales used for cosmetics are usually found in the major oceans, the question is are the whales killed just so we can have perfume? Other expensive and fancy perfumes have other repulsive ingredients which can be seen on this website: http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/11/lady-gaga-and-perfume-ingredients

We put moisturizers on thinking it will soften our skin and will help our skin improve, more than none of the time this is correct, but the ingredients to make that happen will shock you. One ingredient is snail slime, Oil from a shark's liver and lamb fat. Oil from sharks liver are used because ‘Squalene is a fat naturally found in our skin, which serves to protect and hydrate our skin barrier’ and the lamb fat is used because “It has soothing and hydrating properties, making it an ideal ingredient for skin care products,” says Zeichner. However none of these ingredients are bad for our skin, but are these animals dyeing or being tortured for us to wear makeup? Snails are very plenty full and live all over the world in many different conditions and climates; also will not extinct anytime soon, but is that a good reason to use them for our material needs? I will be discussing animal abuse for cosmetic reasons in the next blog.





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http://www.today.com/style/weird-gross-beauty-product-ingredients-bird-poop-snail-slime-1D79939563 http://makeup.lovetoknow.com/How_Are_Cosmetics_Made
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/6-weird-ingredients-in-your-makeup.html?page=2
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