Does your Makeup Love You?
Feb 08, 2020
You love makeup, but does your make up love you? Have you worn the same brand of makeup for years? Being creatures of habit, we often go to the same products over and over again. But, have you noticed that those same products are starting to irritate your eyes? It may be because the ingredient list or the amounts of the ingredients have changed over the years.
3 Ingredients to Avoid
Let's review three common ingredients to avoid so you can love wearing eye makeup again. Eliminating these ingredients from your eye makeup and skin or beauty products will help you achieve whiter, brighter eyes. The 3 we will highlight today are alcohol, formaldehyde, and parabens.
Alcohol
Alcohol is commonly found in eye makeup removers and eye makeup remover wipes. It may also be found in facial and skincare products. Alcohol, as you know, is commonly used to remove bacteria. It also evaporates quickly.
Alcohol may be great at removing bacteria, but it is also very irritating. You know it is when you hold a bottle of rubbing alcohol under your nose. Alcohol is especially irritating to our mucous membranes. If you were to smell rubbing alcohol your nose would run and your eyes would water.
Now, imagine rubbing that alcohol around your eyes. It would make them very red and watery. And, depending on what alcohol is mixed with, it may stay in contact with your eyes for long periods of time. Thus your eyes would be continually bothered for hours.
Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde, as you may know, is what we embalm people with after they have died. It is a preservative it extends the life of products and keeps them from accumulating bacteria. Therefore, it is a great ingredient to keep both bacteria out of products and preserve them for longer shelf life.
Formaldehyde is a known carcinogenic that is also linked to asthma, neurotoxicity, and developmental toxicity. You do not want to have formaldehyde in on or around your eyes.
It is true that as recent as within the last 10 years, formaldehyde was an ingredient in baby shampoo. Can you believe we were all rubbing this on our precious babies' heads?
Ethanolamines (MEA/DEA/TEA)
Ethanolamines are used as surfactants and to adjust pH. These chemicals are also used as an emulsifying agent to get two ingredients to stay in a mixture.
These ingredients are commonly found in mascara and sunscreens. Its surfactant nature will help the product to spread across the tissue smoothly.
As you know, ethanol is found in gasoline. The side effects are known to be allergies, skin toxicity, hormone disruption, and inhibited fetal brain development.
Unregulated Industry
The problem that we have here in the US is that the beauty industry is largely unregulated. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health. They control and supervise food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription, and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs.
The FDA attempts to keep the public safe by testing and requiring large studies on drugs used to treat diseases. However, beauty products are released onto the market without any testing required. That is how these harmful ingredients become commonplace in the products that were rubbing on our skin daily.
The eyelids are the thinnest skin in the body. So, the products left on the lids have a greater chance of reaching the bloodstream and traveling throughout the body.
The last law to govern the cosmetic industry in the United States was passed in 1938. The US has banned or restricted about 30 ingredients. However, in Europe over 1400 ingredients have been banned from personal care products.
CLEAN Makeup Manual Course
This lack of regulation is what lead me to spend hundreds of hours researching the products that are best for your eyes. The CLEAN makeup manual was developed from this same research. The course walks you through a simple five-step process to illuminate these ingredients from your eye makeup and personal care products.
All you need to do is simply go through the steps by watching the videos to eliminate the irritation and redness that you were experiencing with the makeup around your eyes.
This course is for you if you:
- struggle to wear your make up all-day
- tend to be red or watery while wearing makeup
- feel that you are allergic to something in your makeup.
- can't find brands of makeup that you can wear comfortably
- have symptoms of dryness and irritation
- just want to hat take the best care of your eyes possible
**After all, you only get one pair of eyes in your lifetime**
The CLEAN makeup manual is a digital course consisting of five videos that are easy to follow. You can purchase your clean makeup manual here by clicking this link and you can receive a 20% discount before midnight on February 14th, Valentine’s Day, by using this code: VALDAY20
The CLEAN Makeup Manual course would also make a great gift for someone you love. Daughters, sisters, wives, mothers, friends, teachers, and coworkers would love to receive the CLEAN Makeup Manual this Valentine’s Day. No shipping is required and you can receive it immediately after purchase using this link.
