In my previous post I shared some of the online resources I use to investigate skincare & makeup ingredients to find out how safe and how effective they are. In this post I thought I'd just do a quick summary for anyone who is new to ingredients-investigation about some of the most common questionable ingredients to look out for. I think you could spend your entire life delving into the research behind these ingredients and find arguments on both sides about their toxicity o

The skincare & makeup industry is largely unregulated, meaning producers of makeup and skincare can, to some extent, put whatever they want in their products and can market those products in an way they please. For example, a product can be marketed as 'natural' when it is has only a few natural ingredients in very small quantities and the rest of the product is made up of synthetic ingredients and chemicals. So basically, if you're interested at all in what you're putting on