Bare Escentuals

Bare Minerals makes the claim that their make up is 100% natural. If that's the case, then their ingredients used must be from the environment, right? In order to find out what the scientists making bareMinerals are using I went straight to their website, and looked how their "Behind the Science" tab. The list was into three columns by skin care; Cleanse and Protect, Hydrate and Protect.


bareMinerals uses Glycolic acid in their foundation which is can be found in sugar crops. Glycolic acid is used to improve skins texture and appearance and reduce wrinkles or acne scarring. bareMinerals also uses Retinol which is an animal form of Vitamin A. Another ingredient Bare Escentuals uses is Mulberry (Morus plant), they are native to warm temperate and subtropic regions. For antioxidants bareMinerals uses Green Tea, green tea is made completely of leaves that undergo oxidation treatment. Research shows that regular green tea drinkers typically have a lower chance at having heart disease, but what does that have to do with make up? (Not entire list)

After reading several articles on the company and looking at what users had to say, bareMinerals has had almost only positive feedback from their customers. Their website lists all the ingredients to their make up and after doing research on most of them none of them were listed as harmful to the environment even if production does continue the way it is now. Although Bare Escentuals is all natural the products they are using do not significantly take away from the environment. It is a mineral based make up line and is also good for your skin. I personally use this product and have not had any problems with it, although it isn't cheap. I am happy to know that the money I spend on my make up is not adding to the destruction of an environment.

Here is the link for Bare Escentuals: http://www.bareescentuals.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-BareEscentuals-Site/default/Home-Show?brandId=BE