![]() ![]() And a lot of conventional mascara has concerning ingredients, such as: Some of us do use mascara daily, and it can flake off and migrate into your eyes and onto the skin under your eyes, where ingredients can potentially be absorbed into the body. If you want to upgrade to a safer mascara, there is plenty of Good Stuff and Okay Stuff you that will give your lashes a boost without exposing you to a bunch of toxic ingredients.Īlthough mascara is of relatively low concern, I don’t consider it to be zero-concern. Unless you eat your mascara, have a habit of rubbing it into your eyes, and/or sleep with it on, don’t worry if you’ve been using the Bad Stuff for more years than you wish to count. (And if you’re like me, you don’t even use it every day any more!). Relatively speaking, mascara is a lower-concern product– you use small amounts of it, it’s not applied directly to your skin, and it tends to stay in place. Why You Shouldn’t Freak Out About Mascara Fragrance ingredients mask the unsavory smell that many mascara formulas would otherwise have, and in some cases, give mascara a signature scent.Preservatives and pH adjusters prevent (or at least limit) the growth of microbes.Some waxes, fatty acids, and surfactants act as emulsifiers to mix water and water-soluble ingredients with non-water soluble ingredients.Fats like oils and butters provide moisturizing benefits other ingredients with humectant/emollient/“skin-conditioning” properties include glycerin, silicone and some plant extracts.Waxes, gums, polymers, fibers and starches stabilize and thicken the formula some form a film on the lashes and provide “volumizing” benefits fibers “lengthen” lashes.Pigments provide color (iron oxides, ultramarines, titanium dioxide, mica, etc.).Solvents or diluents are the unifying base for the formula (water, isododecane, alcohols, glycerin, propylene glycol, etc.).I’m no cosmetic chemist, but my basic understanding of mascara formulas is that they usually include the following: And some ingredients that are known to be toxic are permitted for use under certain “restrictions.” Cosmetics can contain ingredients– including natural ones– that have little or no safety data to back them up. They often have super long lists of ingredients, many of which are synthetic, impossible to pronounce, and problematic. Honestly, cosmetics are my least favorite things to research. Mascara ingredients range from familiar and harmless things, like water, to head-scratching ones like fragrance/parfum, which I was surprised to find in most mascara formulas. You’ll even find one Good Stuff pick that you can buy at the drugstore!Īnd, as always, I have lists of Sneaky Stuff and Bad Stuff, including some of your beloved favorites (sorry!). Because we’re talking mascara-and not some product that you smear all over your skin or put in your mouth-I think that using Okay Stuff truly is okay in this case. I finally am able to recommend several mascaras that I consider to be Good Stuff or Okay Stuff. ![]() We are finally done with our research for this new Safe Product Guide, and thank you all so much for your suggestions–you guys put a bunch of brands on my radar that turned out to be Good Stuff. I guess I’m not alone, because many readers and clients have asked me to recommend the best non-toxic mascara. I don’t often wear makeup, but with just a couple of swoops of a mascara wand, I look and feel refreshed and more put together. Mascara is kind of magical, especially if you’re like me and are hashtag-blessed with stubby, pale, stick-straight eyelashes. ![]()
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