Mineral Makeup Foundation The SPF Guru

Mineral makeup foundation has gone through many a bad makeup reviews lately, due to people like Dr. Oz saying it’s dangerous inhaled.  Who inhales all that mineral powder? it’s really dirt,  so do children inhale dirt when they play? sand?  You get the idea.   Second hand smoke, city air, those chemicals are dangerous to breath.  Mineral makeup powders would have to be inhaled daily in doses like cigarette smoke to be even close to dangerous.  Any of you inhaling large quantities of mineral powder makeup as you apply, or is it in your brush going on your face?  I assume the later, and hopefully no one reading this is smoking cigarettes since you’re smoking kills you, and those around you, not to mention the new law on parents that smoke around children.  But that’s a different article.

First there was the bismuth oxychloride mineral makeup ingredient issue, that makeup brands like QVC and other Infomercial Bare Mineral Makeup Brands (we’d love to list them by name but the largest bare mineral makeup brand attorneys have sent Raesin Images letters of intent to sue us for using their trademarked brand name, yet they claim to be a friendly mineral makeup brand and from what we have gathered from other bare mineral makeup brands owners they are harassing only Raesin Images Cosmetics owners not other websites or companies using the exact same terms we’re authorized to use through companies we work with such as Sephora, Alta, Beauty.com and other affiliate programs,  so much for truth about their bare mineral makeup brand products guess they really don’t want women to have healthy skin, just sell their products, very sad..) including Sheer Cover,  and Jane Iredale Mineral Cosmetics.  93% of small business mineral makeup companies used as the main ingredient in their mineral makeup foundations.  WebMd put a foot down to that, as did consumers telling the facts that bismuth in mineral makeup was detrimental to the skin.

Second, there was the debate on mica in mineral foundation makeup and this is still an ongoing debate as some users claims are allergic reactions.

Third, and this list goes on and on, is the fact that so many mineral makeups have all sorts of ingredients, some unnatural, some with unnatural ingredient names, like Nylon 12, though in fact is natural, vitamin E, and that it can go through the skin causing problems with gluten free diets, etc.  um.. no it can’t, unless you eat your skin care,  but as you can see the list is never ending.

Mineral foundation makeup is the guru of makeups when it comes to natural SPF levels, and this is the season where women should wear an SPF of at least 15.  Most mineral foundation makeup brands offer either Zinc Oxide, or Titanium Di0xide in their listing of ingredients.  A Mineral Foundation with both ingredients or derivatives of, must have zinc and titanium dioxide as ingredients in the first 5 on the back ingredient panel to be useful.  If they are lower than the 5 listing than they may only be 1% of the formulation, an SPF of 1 which is pretty useless.

Chemical foundation makeup with SPF’s can be good if you do not have allergic reactions to the ingredient used for the SPF.  Many consumers over the years were not able to wear conventional foundations or any sort of SPF on their face, due to breakouts that included severe cystic acne.  Newer cosmetic ingredients have changed helping cosmetic companies by not having products that caused problems due to the SPF ingredients.

All in all, it’s important to choose a product with broad spectrum SPF for your face and body.  The skin cancer organization have many useful tips and lists mineral foundation as a wonderful cosmetic product.

Rae Switzer – EpiDermalogy Labs, LLC – Raesin Images – Colour ID Minerals Makeup