Do you want to look healthy and naturally beautiful while saving money or spend too much for virtually the same products by the big corporations?  Makeup your mind to be gorgeous! Why not…and SAVE!

There is so much of it that it’s hard to tell what we should really pay attention to…which is actually just what the hype is designed to do.  The Affordable Mineral Makeup Company doesn’t have big budget advertising and marketing campaigns, but it wouldn’t matter if they did…they just say it like it is:  they recommend using personal care and makeup products with no unnecessary, harmful or toxic ingredients…only healthy, pure ingredients and none that you don’t need…and that’s exactly what you get with pure mineral makeup from Affordable Mineral Makeup.

It’s easy at any age to be lulled into a trance by the promises of sexy, glamorous, Hollywood looks by using the ‘purest’ or ‘most refined’ makeup products…but read the labels…make sure you know exactly what you are getting for the extra money you are paying for all that marketing and advertising hype.

Now are you making your decisions to buy pure minerals based on the hype of international companies, or are you doing your research and making your own decisions?  Makeup!! Your Mind!

Women have used cosmetics for thousands of years to enhance their looks. In the old testament Jezebel painted her eyelids and probably used minerals since Macy’s was probably not in the neighborhood. Even the book of Esther describes beauty treatments. And even today we call someone a Jezebel if she is overly made up.

If you’ve been reading my posts, you know how strongly I feel about using personal care products without all of the harmful, toxic, unregulated ingredients found in so many of them.  Researching the history of cosmetics and what women once used…weird just doesn’t quite cover it.

Can you imagine what women had to do to get some color on their faces?  Today we just shop on the web and get gorgeous mineral makeup delivered right to our mailboxes. Try doing that with an ox!  We, like in the days of old, have pure pure minerals to offer.  You should check us out. and be gorgeous!  Jezebels, indeed!

Now, I am naturally concerned about this for two reasons…obviously one of them is that my company specializes in irritant-free, chemical free mineral makeup without harmful ingredients like Bismuth Oxychloride…all of which helps reduce and prevent acne and other skin problems.

The other reason…if you’ve been reading our blog, you know that we are on a mission to inform everyone about using safer cosmetics and personal care products like ours. Many other personal care product manufacturers use ingredients that have already been banned for use in personal care products in the European Union. Many of those ingredients are in products you use on your face every day which can contribute to increased skin problems including acne.  And since the category is unregulated and ingredients often untested, there could be harmful ingredients in those products that do even worse things than exacerbate acne.

Please go watch the Story of Cosmetics video and find out more about this very important issue.

There are actually over 5,000 ingredients that are allowed for use in personal care products. Many of these ingredients that are allowed are known to be hazardous to our health and many others remain untested with unknown risks.  Although the EU (European Union) has banned approximately 400 chemicals suspected of causing cancer, most of these chemicals are permitted in products sold in Canada and the United States.

Here is a partial list of known questionable ingredients found in personal care products…please visit often for future articles and more information about safer personal care products.

• Diethanolamine (DEA), triethanolamine (TEA), and monoethanolamine (MEA)
• Dioxins,DMDM hydantoin, diazolidinyl urea and imidazolidinyl urea
• FD&C colors, Phenylenediamine, Lanolin, Lead, Nonylphenols, Parabens, Polyethylene glycol (PEG)

As a special encouragement to use safer products (shameless plug is next) don’t miss the special fall promotion right on the front page of the site when you go to watch the Story of Cosmetics video.

None of these things are bad for us…right? Wait a second…makeup?  How really weird that this word can have so many implications. I love it!   Many cosmetic companies just keep putting chemicals in their products…so there is bad makeup and good makeup.  I want to make (it) up to the whole world by letting you know there are good places to buy good, healthy and safe makeup. For real. Honest. Truly, and I am not making this up! Check out Affordable Mineral Makeup. The company that cares about you.  Really.

So although I have had bouts of madness about things before, my newest madness is getting the word out about the potentially harmful chemicals in makeup and baby products.  And believe me, it is not merely a mineral makeup madness.  It is a major, full blown lunacy…but…it is devoted, intense and desperate.  Everyone needs to watch The Story of Cosmetics video to understand more about this important issue.  Wow, help me get the word out.  Can you?

If there was a contest for the most moronic combination of words, I think this would be the winner.

Moderately hazardous. Hilarious! Well not hilarious… sad, disgraceful, disgusting, vile, horrible…well you get the idea.  I don’t mean to pick on Cosmetics Database.  They provide a very important service, and I applaud them, its just that the terminology really got to me.  But you could tell that, couldn’t you?  I have to go take a nap.   Arlene

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As always, I welcome your comments here or on Affordable Mineral Makeup.  Reading my articles will hopefully give you some idea of how passionate I am about business and health and doing no harm to animals.

It is my intent to continue building on the great business model of Affordable Mineral Makeup and extend the business potential it represents.  For example, we are very excited to have Brett Bizick, our ‘makeup artist to the stars’ working with us to provide his tips and techniques…read more about his background on Affordable Mineral Makeup.

I believe we can all make a difference when we do the things we believe in and are passionate about. This is one of the  reasons I decided to purchase the Affordable Mineral Makeup Company…I am passionate about leveraging the hidden potential of a good business model…and even more so when the products contribute to your natural beauty in healthy ways…and no animals are harmed in the making of the products!

And I’m just as passionate about supporting the efforts to make cosmetics safer for us…it’s one of the reasons I chose to own this company…to provide healthy, natural mineral makeup to women of all ages for a safer and beautiful new you…now please watch The Story of Cosmetics video and join the cause.