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.

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.

Do they know that the makeup they buy is loaded with chemicals and toxins?  No, they don’t.  So we need to tell them.   Maybe the years and years of using these toxic makeups  have contributed to our suffering breast cancer and other not so pleasant ailments.  We need to be asking teens, no begging them, to stop putting toxins into their bodies.  How do we get the word out?  How do we protect them?  It is astonishingly vile that cosmetic companies actually use harmful ingredients.  It is so beyond the boundaries of doing the right thing.

Get your teenager to start using chemical free makeup.  Start right here…have them watch The Story of Cosmetics…it’s an important message that everyone should see.   Affordable Mineral Makeup is putting together a place on our site just for teenagers.  We will have an educated teen spokesperson to help spread the word to teenagers.  Enough of letting these big cosmetics companies sweet talk us while offering a poisoned apple. Enough. Enough. Enough.

Arlene

The first thing I found out was that I was wrong.  And not just wrong, but wildly wrong and completely ignorant about being put in harm’s way by an industry that is self regulating and that absolutely, positively uses toxins in their products. With friends like these…

Do you know that the existing law, on the books since 1938, states that the FDA cannot even call for product recalls even in cases where products were found to contain illegal levels of toxins. I think you should read this last sentence again. All I can say is “you’ve got to be kidding me!”

Not that I don’t think this is horrendous, but worse yet, some of this toxic stuff is in baby products. Really. Learn more about safer cosmetics right here:  watch the just-released video The Story of Cosmetics right now on Affordable Mineral Makeup.

So now, Congress has in front of it a bill to insure that personal care products are free of harmful ingredients. Geez…wonder if it will pass.

Sure I am trying to get my company up to the next level of success, but truth be told, Affordable Mineral Makeup is free of toxins, chemicals and we do not use anything that is tested on animals.  It is the biggest no-brainer since we started using our brains. Stop, stop, stop using cosmetics that are loaded with toxins.  How dare any company care so little about the health and well being of us?  Check out your cosmetics at www.safecosmetics.org and stop helping these companies continue to harm us so they can make a buck.  We can do it.  Let’s.