Afterglow – Healthy Hues For Your Skin
February 24, 2009 by Michelle Smith
Filed under Mineral Makeup
There are a growing number of Mineral Makeup brands on the market today and they are not all the same. Some of these assumed “healthy” makeup lines can contain synthetic preservatives such as Parabens, synthetic dyes, bismuth oxychloride (an irritant), or fillers. Afterglow Mineral Cosmetics use s pharmaceutical grade minerals and pigments, along with certified organic botanicals.
Afterglow Mineral Makeup is available in starter kits. A starter kit is the perfect way to try the products and incorporate them into your daily makeup routine. Kits are available in Light, Medium, and Deep Medium tones. Each kit includes 2 Organic Mineral Foundations, 1 Organic Mineral Blush, 1 Organic Setting Powder, a vegan Baby Kabuki Brush (short, full brush for makeup application), a vegan concealer brush (more controlled application than the kabuki brush for more coverage), a splashy silver Afterglow Glam Makeup Bag, and complete Mineral Makeup instructions for beginners.
Afterglow Mineral Cosmetics strives to use quality Organic and sustainable ingredients in both their mineral makeup products and their packaging.
Photo credit: Afterglow Mineral Cosmetics
Hi Michelle,
I recently discovered your blog of everything green, after I bought a kit of “Eco Tools” makeup brushes. I hope to use them soon. So I’ve been reading your blog backwards! It is really great.
It intrigued me that you promote the “Bare Minerals” line of mineral makeup. I kept wondering if you knew that Bare Minerals has bismuth oxychloride in it. Until today’s blog, I wasn’t sure if you were even familiar with bismuth oxychloride as a skin irritant. So I’d already heard of Afterglow, because I have really sensitive skin, and last year I researched a lot of the mineral makeups. Afterglow is one of several online mineral makeup companies that sells products without bismuth oxychloride. I’ve decided that I’ll just continue to use a good cleanser, some pure rosewater as a toner, and an excellent all-natural moisturizer that has a built-in sunscreen of SPF 30. Please check out the ingredient list for Bare Minerals; they definitely list bismuth oxychloride as one of the ingredients used, on their website. Yet the Bare Minerals website says that the mineral makeup is “pure” and contains no irritants! It’s really upsetting that so many of these companies, on the one hand, can say they are pure and natural, yet on the other hand use a product that is a known irritant.
Thanks for reading this far, Michelle. Please keep educating us!
I was not aware of that. It looks like I need to educate myself further. Thanks for the heads up.
I’ve used bareMinerals foundation without any problems, so I wasn’t aware that it was controversial. I think that in terms of skin irritations, the list of possible irritants could be huge, so if I went just on that, it would be hard to know what to include or what to exclude when writing. In my own family, for example, I have two kids with sensitive skin and they react to totally different ingredients.
I appreciate your input and I’ll make it a point to offer posts on products that are good for sensitive skin. If you, or any other readers, know of any products that you respect and would like to recommend for sensitive skin, please email me and I’ll write them up.