Posted by Arlene Sherman, President on October 8, 2010
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Swollowing Ox blood to improve your complexion? Burnt matches used to darken eyelids? Not so bad when you consider this next one…using the urine of young boys to fade freckles? And how about this? Queen Victoria hated makeup and associated it with prostitutes and felt it was vulgar for upper class society. She did however say that it was alright to use if you were an actor. Well golly gee and thanks Victoria.
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!
Posted by Guest Author on September 27, 2010
I read the most disturbing news report recently on CNN.com. In a new study conducted in Europe, the findings indicate a link between mental health problems and teens with problem acne. Nearly everyone has had some type of complexion or skin problem at some point in their life, but did you know that severe problems can be devastating psychologically…and peer pressure in our world can make it ten times worse….particularly as teens when you are really forming your self-image and self-esteem.
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.
Posted by Arlene Sherman, President on September 14, 2010
In our ongoing efforts to promote awareness of potentially harmful ingredients in cosmetics and mineral makeup without Bismuth Oxychloride or other unhealthy chemicals, we invite you to watch the ‘Story of Cosmetics’ video by visiting the Affordable Mineral Makeup website. This video will enlighten anyone who uses shampoo, soap, lotions, oil…typically any personal care product used by men, women…and children. You’ll be surprised how many are in an unregulated category of products in which the FDA has no oversight for the potentially harmful ingredients found in many personal care products.
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.
Posted by Arlene Sherman, President on September 3, 2010
I am confused…we makeup after a fight, right? This is a good thing…
If we get rained out we do a makeup game, right? This is a good thing…
If we’re absent we have a makeup test, right? This could be a good thing…
Don’t we makeup our bed? This might be a good thing…
Don’t we make up stories? Uhhh…maybe a good thing…
And don’t we apply makeup?
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.
Posted by Arlene Sherman, President on August 7, 2010
You know, I’m fairly new to the cosmetic industry, having bought the Affordable Mineral Makeup Company just 6 weeks ago. I didn’t know a whole heck of a lot about the industry. I just bought my cosmetics like millions of other women, just like you, thinking the products were OK’d by good old Uncle Sam.
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.
Posted by Administrator on October 5, 2008
Affordable Mineral Makeup™ is a signer of the Safe Cosmetics Campaign
We have have pledged to not use chemicals that are known or strongly suspected of causing cancer, mutation or birth defects in their products and to implement substitution plans that replace hazardous materials with safer alternatives in every market they serve.
Sadly, many major cosmetics companies, including BE, OPI, Avon, Estee Lauder, L’Oreal, Revlon, Proctor & Gamble and Unilever have thus far refused to sign the Compact for Safe Cosmetics.
Posted by Administrator on
Affordable Mineral Makeup™ is eco friendly:
~Our web server is green.
~We purchase Carbon Credits via a sister site of ours to offset the carbon footprint generated from shipping orders.
~While we do ship all orders via USPS Priority mail, you can reuse the boxes as long as you’re shipping priority (I’ve used the same one back/forth to someone now for over 6 months! so it can be done. Additionally, if we were to ship using any other method we would have to use more shipping materials to protect your order which would be less green than priority boxes).
~USPS has posted new info regarding the eco factors of the priority packaging via http://mbdc.com/c2c/overview.php and http://mbdc.com/usps
~We do not send out catalogs.
~We are a paperless office.
~We print on recycled paper.
~We use organza bags and other green packaging for most orders (other than for samples and select others which have to be shipped in poly bags — we are still moving towards locating quality bags that are green to use in lieu of the poly bags for samples)
~We are moving towards use of greener sifter jar containers (locating quality green ones is an ongoing task).
~We provide product that is natural and contains no chemicals thus offering green product and no chemical backlash to the environment.
