Make your makeup herbal and non-toxic

Doing your own makeup at home has many benefits. Not only does this allow you to fully customize it, but it also avoids the toxic ingredients often found in commercial inorganic cosmetics. You can choose the color, the appearance and even adapt it to the characteristics of your skin type.

The goal of self-makeup is no longer just to hide blemishes, show off beautiful skin, or highlight your facial features. By choosing ingredients like butter, oils, oils, essential oils, hydrolates, or clays, you have the opportunity to wear makeup with the addition of true, healthy and sustainable skincare.

The use of natural raw materials for makeup is as old as mankind. The pharaohs, in whose graves henna, hol, and eye shadow were found, painted their lips with iron oxide pigments and red ocher, and hid wrinkles with apricot pulp or flour. In France during the time of Louis XIV, pollen was used to dye leather.

The geisha of the 17th century turned makeup into the art of seduction by creating lipsticks with rose petals and saffron or soy wax bases that also served to fix hair and wigs.

AVOID TOXIC SUBSTANCES IN MAKEUP

Today we have countless products that need to be replenished. However, we cannot be sure that they are not dangerous to our health. Some contain allergenic or toxic ingredients that can act as endocrine disruptors and cause changes in our sexual health, various types of cancer, allergies, diabetes or obesity.

Sulfates, aluminum, lead (found in long-lasting lipsticks), and phthalates are some of the harmful ingredients that we must avoid at all costs for future problems.

HOME COSMETICS LABORATORY

Makeup cosmetics that we can make at home from natural ingredients not only make us happy, but also cheaper. We can consider them hypoallergenic due to their natural composition, especially if the ingredients are organic (pesticides are irritants and allergens).

Regardless, there are people allergic to natural substances such as walnuts, peanuts, almonds or gluten. In this case, they should not use them in their makeup.

HOW TO MAKE THREE BASES OF MAKEUP

In this article I suggest a powder blush that will illuminate your face and for which you only need two ingredients; Liquid eyeliner based on mineral pigments to highlight the eyes; and a corrective cream to apply on the eye contour and hide dark circles and skin imperfections. In the latter case, you can substitute rosehip vegetable oil for raspberry, hemp, jojoba, tigernut or avocado seed oil.

1. POWDER PAINT

This blush or blush ("blush" in English) brightens and gives "health" to the face. It is prepared in pleat and is stored for up to 6 months.