Scary

Today I was driving home from some shopping in the city center and heard on the local radio (Den Haag fm) that they discovered carcinogenic stuff in mascara's and eye liners. WOW this is huge!!!! There was a research on 103 and 19 seamed to have this stuff in it, called nitrosamine!!! The fact is that it can develop (cause it is a special formula) when certain ingredients of those two are in contact with each other. Also they claim that this will not happen if the product has pure raw minerals in them. (From a dutch website)
I was tottaly shocked on this and went straight on the net to check it out. Seems it is in food we eat, cosmetics we use and pesticides. Qoute from Wikipedia: " Nitrosamines are produced from nitrites and secondary amines, which often occur in the form of proteins. Their formation can occur only under certain conditions, including strongly acidic conditions such as that of the human stomach. High temperatures, as in frying, can also enhance the formation of nitrosamines. These cooking styles may be responsible for thousands of cases of colon cancer per year across the world."

This is a big deal because if you keep on reading you can see that this stuff can cause cancer.

Now for the past years a lot has been done to improve the food we eat and process them as natural as possible. The food you eat you have in the hand by choosing organic or non processed food. But my mascara I cannot develop my own!! So I went on a little research and the following mascara's and eye liners are nitrosamine FREE.

1. e.l.f cosmetics/mineral line: eyeliner
2. purminerals: mineral mascara
3. clinique: all mascara’s are natural based (my favorite)
4. L’Oreal Bare Natural Mineral-Enriched mascara
5. After glow (you will find everything organic) Super



These are a few I have chosen and searched for but please start using only mineral based mascara, well not only mascara but all make up you use that way you are sure your beauty does not disadvantage your health.

This is a reality check for us users and our favorite cosmetic lines to take that step in using only natural ingeredients in beauty products.

Take care!

Xoxo Steff