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.

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?

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.