But for daily wear, especially when eating is involved I tend to stick to some more safe and natural products.
Here's some products I know to be safer. Which is to say: Free of artificial colors, petrolatum, mineral oil, phthalates or parabens, and mostly Lead free.
Most of these you can find in any organic food store that carries beauty products. Whole foods carries the Juice Beauty, Alba (TerraGloss) and the KissMyFace brands.
Hemp Organics Lipstick-Ruby I love this color. Its a nice dark burgandy red (with cool tones not orange) It's le.ad free and made from hemp oil and beeswax. Relatively scent free. It's just like a normal lipstick in texture and wearing power. If you want a safe alternative to regular lipstick this is an excellent product. It comes in a wide variety of colors too.
$14.99 a good value and good product
Hemp Organics lip tint stick I like the wine and the berry colors. This is a nice compact lip tint. Not too tacky, easy to apply. Has a darker color than some of the lip glosses.
$5.99 a good value
Hemp Organics lip gloss While it comes in a number of colors, once applied it doesn't really have much of a color. It's a slightly oily moisturizing gloss. Lasting power is low. Relatively unscented. It's okay but not my favorite of the options as there is no real color in it. I think I got it in "bliss" but it doesn't seem like most of the colors have a strong color at all.
$9.99 Not a great value, you can find this somewhat cheaper at health food stores.
Kiss My Face 3wayColor for lips, cheeks and eyes-Ruby This has a very moisturizing olive and mango butter, caster oil and lysine, with natural fruit flavors (grapefruit, pomegranate, raspberry and white grape).
As you might expect it has a yummy fruity scent.
The texture is a little oily, and for your lips that's pleasant. It's not tacky at all. I was less impressed in it's use for your cheeks and eyes. For the cheeks it works a little like a cheek stain would. For eyes, it doesn't really work, it quickly ends up creasing. In a pinch I might use it, but you definitely need a mirror to apply as it has quite a dark color and it is tricky to get it evenly spread. It's the darkest of the glosses I've tried. And a very nice color.
Another note is that on hot days you tend to get oil at the top first so you may need to smush the tube around a bit to blend the oil and color together again...or just rub the clear oil somewhere else :)
$6.95
Alba TerraGloss-blaze
This has a sweet vanilla smell. A little strong but it's pleasant. This is a good moisturizing liquid gloss.
Feels a little tacky just as most lip gloss does. I like this one since while it has color, it's not so dark that you need a mirror to precisely apply. I probably use this one most. Garnet is another good color though both are about the same color on.
This lasts about as long as any typical lipgloss. So you need to reapply every couple hours. (mileage may vary) Good value for the price. $4.99
Juice Beauty-SPF 8 Lip MoisturizersI like Playful which is their darkest one. (comes in a set of three colors though)
These have a nice fruity scent. They are particularly handy to tuck into a pocket as they're a nice small chapstick size. They're nice moisturizing glosses and not particularly waxy.
Easy to apply, not dark enough that you need a mirror for precision. Lasts about the same amount of time as a normal chapstick type product. So you'll need to reapply throughout the day.
$15.00 for set of 3.
Dr. Hauschka Lip Colour Stone Colours Collection Lip Colour 03. This is a somewhat transparent lip paint it comes in a small flat case with a mirror and a brush, everything you need to apply is right there.
It feels really moisturizing and nice. No noticable smell.
This is a fairly expensive product. I got it at a store closing sale, so I'm not sure if I'd pay full price for it. $26.95
To be avoided
Burt's Bee products are now owned by Clorox. Which if that isn't incentive enough..
Burt's Bee Lip shimmers-Merlot IT BURNS!!! It's so minty it actually burns. I don't know who would buy this product. Most of their lip products have this burning lip feature so I haven't tried any of their other products.
Besides burning the color is ok but it's very waxy like chapstick. Wholely unpleasant. Plus do you really trust Clorox to put out a safe product? I'm skeptical. And the findings for this particular color seem to support that as it had lead in it:
Burtʹs Bees Lip Shimmer Merlot 0.09 Burtʹs Bees MA 08/29/07 (download full report from link further down).
Dr Bronners organic lip balms
Unless you really love peppermint avoid it. It's so minty it tingles. Didn't have much color, and it was a bit waxy. I generally like Dr. Bronners products but this one wasn't a winner for me. Perhaps after the burning episode with the Burt's Bee I was a little gun shy of the extra minty lip balm.
Peace-Keeper lip paintEmpowered. This is a pretty standard lipstick, it's a little on the waxy side but has good opaque coverage. Smells a little crayon waxy, but not too bad. This color is a nice deep red, with a slightly cool tone. Like most dark lipsticks you'll need a mirror to apply.
That said, one of their other lipsticks tested showed that it had detectable levels of lead. (wish I'd seen that before I bought this ew!) "Peacekeeper Paint Me Compassionate 0.12 Peacekeeper MA 08/27/07 " See page ten of the link below for the full report.
You can download the pdf report on lead in lipsticks here. from the safecosmetics.org site, see page 10 for specific brands and colors.
I was surprised to find this lipstick for sale in basically every health food store that sells make up. Lead might be technically natural but certainly not safe.
As to how much should you worry? I personally discovered that I had heavy metal poisoning from both lead and mercury which is why I started looking into this. My mercury levels were so high they were off the little graph provided for the report. Lead was also very high. I did chelation for several months and my levels are lowered but still high. Honestly I suspect that some of this is from our water and food. But I don't eat that much fish, and not fish that is supposed to be high in mercury. So who can tell where it came from really. But there's no reason to knowingly eat lead. A moment on the lips forever on the hips.
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