Mineral Makeup Ingredients: What's On My Face?

There's so much hype surrounding Mineral Makeup -
it's everywhere and everyone's talking about it! When it used to be just the two major brands battling it out for world domination, now it seems you can't walk into your neighborhood grocery with being blasted by mineral makeup advertising. Just about every major cosmetics company is coming out with their brand. Did you know that both Avon and Mary Kay, the world's largest direct sales cosmetics companies, have launched mineral makeup lines?

How do you break through this kind of clutter, especially when it comes to a product that's good for you? Isn't it all the same? Can't you just buy the most popular/most appealing/most accessible/least expensive brand and get on with it? The answer is NO! Unfortunately, not all 'mineral makeup' is good for your skin.

So how will you know the difference? Ladies, it's in the jar.

No one wants to spend time squinting at teeny, tiny writing, trying to decipher the labels on teeny, tiny jars, but it's necessary to stress how important it is. You make the switch to mineral makeup to be good to your skin, don't you? Some mineral cosmetics do not contain all natural, healthy ingredients, and choosing the wrong products can cause your skin as much damage as mainstream, petroleum-based cosmetics.

So what to do? Read on!

Here is an easy to read, easy to understand list of ingredients commonly found in mineral makeup and their properties: the reason they're included in formulations. Notice how many ingredients are redundant and only add 'density' to the overall product. While all minerals have a chemical compound name, I have chosen just to list by their common name.

List of ingredients you should look FOR in mineral makeup:

Titanium Dioxide: Offers waterproof, sun protection and anti-bacterial properties. Adds brightness while providing a matte finish. Has light refraction properties to reduce the look of fine lines and large pores. Helps minerals adhere to the skin.

Zinc Oxide: Known for it's healing properties for problem skin (such as rosacea), it helps minerals adhere through sweating and swimming while providing UVA/UVB sun protection.

Mica/Serecite Mica: Serecite mica is translucent, helps minerals adhere to the skin and reflects light to help reduce the appearance of enlarged pores and fine lines. It also helps in giving minerals a silky feel.

Silica/Silicone Microspheres: High-quality mineral powder, it helps reduce the look of fine lines and wrinkles by reflecting light, adds a smooth, silky feel while offering high oil-absorption properties.

Boron Nitride: A high-quality mineral powder, it has a soft, silky feel, adds luminosity and luster, texture and offers oil absorption properties.

Allantoin: A skin protectant, it helps promote healthy skin by relieving skin irritations, chapped and dry skin, sun burns, fever blisters and more and stimulates new and healthy tissue growth.

Iron Oxides: Are all-natural mineral pigments, giving mineral makeup it's color.

Ultramarine Blue: Since there is no Blue Iron Oxide, Ultramarine Blue is used. Even though cosmetic grade, Ultramarine Blue is not safe, by FDA standards, for direct application to lips and fingernails. However - the minute quanitity that is used as a pigment in mineral makeup is not considered harmful to the skin.

List of ingredients that should make you THINK TWICE:

Bismuth Oxychloride: This ingredient offers luminosity and sheen, maximum coverage and adds a smooth texture to minerals. It is a known skin irritant, and people with a sensitivity may suffer breakouts, itching or skin irritations.

Magnesium Stearate: This ingredient provides average coverage, texture, and high adhesion properties to minerals. Magnesium is a naturally occurring metal and stearic acid is derived from vegetable oil. People with allergies or a sensitivity to metals or oils (such as soybean) report rashes and skin irritations.

Talc: Provides excellent coverage and oil-absorption properties. Talc not only can clog pores but may be a cancer-causing agent.

Kaolin Clay: Offers medium coverage, high absorption, and helps minerals adhere to the skin. It can dry skin out or clog pores, causing breakouts.

Silk Powder: Silk offers moisturizing properties, entraps oil, and offers relief for skin burns. It is not a mineral and may clog pores, causing skin irritations or breakouts.

Rice Powder: Offers oil absorption properties. As a food-derivative, may cause bacterial growth and cause skin irritations.

Manganese Violet: Adds color to mineral cosmetics. It is a metal: people with allergies or a sensitivity to metals or oils report rashes and skin irritations.

Cornstarch (Zea Mays): Offers oil absorption properties. As a food-derivative, may cause bacterial growth and cause skin irritations.

List of ingredients that you should try to AVOID:
(It's okay to be horrified. I was.)

Carmine: Provides red pigmentation to mineral cosmetics. Although natural, this is an animal by-product - made from boiled and ground beetle carcasses.

Chromium: Adds color to mineral cosmetics. It is artificial and a known skin irritant.

FD & C Dyes: Synthetic colorants believed to be cancer-causing agents.

Triethoxycaprylysilane Fragrance: Synthetic fragrance that may cause allergic reactions and skin irritations.

Pearl Powder: Derived form pearl shells, adds luster and luminosity to mineral makeup. Known to clog pores and cause skin irritations.

Ethylhexyl palmitate: A chemical replacement for Silica or Silicone Microspheres.

Methylparaben, Ethylparaben, Propylparaben,
Butylparaben, Isobutylparaben: Synthetics used to extend the shelf-life of mineral makeup (please be sure to visit http://www.squidoo.com/mineralmakeupfaqs for more information about the shelf-life of mineral cosmetics). They are rumored to be toxic. May cause allergic reaction and skin rashes.

Mineral makeup is great for your skin - as long as you choose products with the right ingredients.
If a company doesn't list their ingredients, don't buy it.
If they don't tell you up front what their ingredients are, don't buy it.
If you don't recognize many of the ingredients listed, don't buy it.
And if they include ingredients on our 'Avoid' list?
Well, you know the drill...

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