Decluttering my old make up products and I am looking for replacements Really going for all natural make up products that is not expensive. Any recommendations?

I attempted to make tinted lip balm this morning. I used beeswax, castor oil (will use almond oil in the future), shea butter, and coconut oil. That mixture seemed good. However I tried mixing in beet juice powder and it was gritty and nasty. What else can I use to tint it? Would beet root powder be better?

Hello. I am a 22-year-old female with genetically perfect skin. Well, until recently. I’ve had beautiful skin my whole life, which everyone envied. During my teenage years, I didn’t struggle with acne like most of my peers. I had "glass skin" without the need for "Korean skincare." The only skin issue I had was that my skin was very sensitive. I didn’t use creams or makeup because they would immediately cause breakouts, dryness, and so on. About a year ago, however, I started trying different cosmetics for various reasons – for Gua Sha, to protect my skin from the sun (CeraVe, Bioderma), for anti-aging prevention (Nuance), and I started cleansing it with skincare products (because they say it’s necessary). Apart from the products I used for Gua Sha, I didn’t use anything long-term, maybe just a week at most, because my skin would immediately become drier, with visible pores, breakouts, and the problem would go away. After my last attempt, which happened quite a while ago, I now have very visible pores, blackheads on the sides of my nose, and breakouts on the sides of my face. I don’t want to try dealing with this problem with more cosmetics, at least not with anything unproven, because everything, even quality cosmetics, causes issues for me. Does anyone here have experience with very sensitive skin? Do you have any tips, what works for you?

Currently typing this as I’m salty that I put on eye makeup for Thanksgiving. 😒

I haven’t liked the way I look with makeup for years. I haven’t worn it much in several years.

I love skincare, I think I’ve got a really nice complexion. Typically I’m ok with just a clean and glowy face, combed brows, and lipgloss.

It’s the holidays and I feel pressure to “dress up”. ☹️

I’m thinking of getting lash extensions. I have had them once before, and absolutely loved them. They were a total confidence boost.

In the summer, I love statement sunglasses and I always wear hats, which the combination of both makes me feel badass and like my “makeup” if that makes sense.

Now for winter my face is on full display and I need a confidence boost without makeup. (Beyond lipgloss.)

What suggestions do you all have?

I’ve never been good at applying faux lashes, and I worry even if I could, without applying liquid liner to cover the lash line it would be noticeable.

Thank you all in advance. 😌🥰

I am 32, F btw. 😀

Hi!

I've been curating my Black Friday skincare haul and would love some recommendations for oily/acne-prone skin. So far, I've picked up:

• Siam Seas Guardian Serum and Revolution Mask
• Maya Chia The Superlift Serum
• Khus+Khus Fix Potion and Restorative Potion
• Fifty7kind NADI Balm

I'm specifically looking for green beauty brands with high omega-3 and strong antioxidant formulas. Are there any must-try products I might be overlooking?

Also excited about the upcoming Laurel sale - any brand or product recommendations would be awesome!

Im really interested in getting a more natural/ less chemical heavy moisturizer. I am using goats milk which is great but I like to layer it with something else especially where I live it can be super dry. If anyone has any recommendations of a really heavy moisturizer that has more “natural” aka ingredients I can pronounce and now about/ ingredients that are commonly found in nature. Please let me know it would be a great help.

REALLY CHEAP Beef tallow from Amazon

Hi! I’m new in here and I have a question. I want to buy beef tallow and honey balm from Amazon and it’s cheap (maybe like 5 dollars for 120g) BUT the brand says generic and it doesn’t have reviews. Idk if I should buy it, I want to try it on bc it’s really popular and I’d do the patch thing(?)(where you only put it in a tiny part of your face cause I have normal/oily skin and I don’t want acne) So what do you think? Should I buy it? It’s the balm with the blonde lady in it, the one that looks like Marilyn Monroe

It sounds very interesting and I'm eager to try it, but have only found it through their website. No returns. But they will exchange for another of their products. It's expensive and the only reviews I've seen are on their site via Tik Tok. Any Reddit users out there that can give me a personal recommendation?

In my early twenties and want to soak in the advice women who are older have to share and wish they knew going into their twenties.

Any good Black Friday or cyber Monday deals for eminence organics? I’m looking to stock up 🤗

Hello. I’m starting this to open conversation about Organic bunny and other natural beauty influencers if anyone would like to mention thoughts. My concern is the natural beauty market is becoming somewhat shady. People who iv been following for half a decade are becoming a bit extreme in their personality and finding it hard to find good influencers. I wanted to get some main concerns out about organic bunny and hear if anyone has similar feelings about other influencers or have recommendations on influencers that seem to be not so divisive and stayed focused on quality products.

1. 🚩Amanda creates boxes that give you items for normally a good price that’s discounted. However when you had up the items in the box you are getting ripped off. And iv been tracking this for a few years, notified it with quite a few boxes. Wish I had screenshots/can go back and look. 1) some are heavily discounted items (like Saint Cosmetics, who is also is out of business and had a massive sale to clear inventory). She shows them ass full price (as she may have bought) but it’s not a good deal if you have knowledge of the companies. You could get the item for $7 on their site and Amanda shows it in the box for $35. This can be up to 1/4 of the box price. 2) there’s forced quick shipping and a luxurious box which is normally around $25. Some people don’t need this…saying it’s apart of the box only forces us to pay more money for shipping we don’t need and doesn’t cost that much anyways. It’s just a bad deal even thought the shipping is quality. 3) charging you for sample items that come free with a purchase if you order from the company site. So free money for Amanda. So when you put it all together, these boxes are around $100-200 and half the items are not represented at a true value current market prices.

2. 🚩 increasingly political where she feels the need to be rude to followers who don’t agree, or even slightly dont have completely factual information. They act as if they are just a number, loosing one isn’t so bad. It comes off as influencers cherish you, need you as their income base, until they don’t agree and then they act like your a small number that never mattered, expendable. For the natural industry this behavior is getting decisive, comments are getting deleted, people are bullying each other and information bias/supporter bias is becoming significant. Often I find natural influencers responding to comments they don’t agree with, with something like “clearly you haven’t been watching my stuff”. When you have been for 5+ years and you are trying to understand where the unhinged behavior towards followers are coming from. These influencers are also becoming very dodgy to who they respond to.

3. 🚩 They stopped commenting on their own photos and instead started doing the automatic DM for items/links. Often you see them not appropriately respond to people with real questions and instead just get “sent (emoji)”. But as soon as it’s political or they don’t agree with the comment, it becomes an argument. When did natural beauty become such a political argument. These days Amanda posts less about beauty products and more about politics/conspiracies. The engagement has turned very political or monetized.

4. 🚩 there have been concerns over the bunnies buddies. I won’t get into it but something to look into.

🚩5. (Added after posting) I also was a subscriber for her exclusive instagram content for around a year (plus or minus not 100% sure) and it was a rip off too. I believe she used it a few times, not even every month which is my expectation of a monthly subscription (at minimum). It was extremely inactive, to the point where I didn’t know if I still had it because there was no interaction. BUT when she did give exclusive content, she would give us early access to deals, like free serum with a $200 agent nature purchase. However the deal would be posted at times like 10am on a Wednesday morning….during traffic hour on a Thursday. We would have the exclusive for about 2 hours, a very small easy to miss window frame, and then it would be opened up to everyone. It’s in the middle of a work day, people are driving, working, cooking, picking up kids, and not on their social. It was easy to miss the time slot, not see the offer before it was open to the public. Perhaps it felt like paying for unusable content or neglect to a paying client/customer.

I am feeling discouraged by the natural beauty industry, finding them becoming very angry, political and pushy on their views. Somewhat a little detached from reality/science. Are there any natural beauty influencers that give you hope? Any thy focus heavily on finding good products and not getting too political?

I just recently bought I new goats milk moisturizer, I was wondering how I don’t contaminate it. I was also thinking about putting it in the fridge. I’ve never really had any experience with goats milk so if anyone has advice I would really appreciate it!

I use the Yuka app and everyyythinggg is a problem!!!

UPDATE:

Thank you so much for the suggestions!! My main reason for concern was what I call "prickle itch" where no matter WHAT i do, makeup makes my face itchy after a couple of hours!!!

I am going to eliminate ingredients one by one SO, after some research I am starting with alcohol of any kind!! I ordered Tir Tir foundation compact bc they don't have any as an ingredient!! Also found a moisturizer called "Pyungkang Yul Calming Moisture Nourishing Cream" that's alcohol free so fingers crossed!!

So I have alot of cellulite on my body mainly my thighs. I know its natural and most people have it, but I've read you can get rid of it by exfoliating so my main question is do you know of a good exfoliator or exfoliating body scrubber? I see the gloves but I'm worried it would harm my skin. If anyone has any other solutions I'm all ears. Thanks.

So my husband is experiencing issues with ingrown hair dry and very irritated skin from shaving his neck.

I need help finding the most minimal ingredient items.

And exfoliating wash And shave butter Maybe after shave?

Any advice and help is appreciated!

i’m looking for a sunscreen that is:

1. relatively affordable for its size
2. natural and without alcohols or other harmful ingredients
3. vegan and doesn’t include beeswax (i’ve had so much trouble with this specifically!)

browsed a couple health food stores without luck so figured i’d ask on here. thank you in advance 🫶🏻

I first want to say a little background about me I am a 30y F. Aromatherapy is my passion. When I was 21 I fell herniated my spine, had to have surgery. I'm not going to go into all that. However, through this injury I have developed a essential oil formula that I've tested for 7 years on 50 different people with different kinds of information pain and injury arthritis stuff like that. And 95% of the people that use a jar everyday for a month report back to me that their daily pain level has decreased by 50% or more it works by targeting the inflammation and reducing it to reduce pain while creating a natural immune response in your body to fight off inflammation. And helping keep it away. Now all that being said I want to find help figuring out where I can get it manufactured I want it to stay affordable I want anyone in pain to be able to afford this and have a better quality of life.

I do not know where to start. I've been told clinical testing costs of more money than I have but a lot of holistic health products have that label that says not FDA approved not proven to cure whatever ailment or solve any illness. And those products have not been through critical trials but have been put on the market so I need information if anybody has it I just want to help other people be out of pain without opiates like I was able to.

I’ve seen a few moisturisers with pumpkin seed and sunflower seed oil in them, and have heard you can make a ‘butter’ from the seeds which is almost like cocoa butter, to use in body lotions etc.

All of the recipes online are for seed butters to cook with, and although I imagine it’s probably a similar process I wondered if anyone on here has experience with making homemade seed butter for cosmetic use?

I don’t want the butter to end up with a grainy food-like texture and I don’t want to waste the seeds I have trying ‘food grade’ recipes that aren’t any good for skin!

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks!

21yo male with rosacea and keratosis pilaris my whole life. I’ve tried many different things but no great success. Been trying to get away from harsh chemicals. Let me know what you guys recommend for use on my face.

I'm looking for a facial moisturizer that doesn't cause me to breakout. I normally just use argan oil when I get out of the shower but now that it's colder with the heat turned on, it doesn't seem to be doing enough. But everything I use seems to cause breakouts. Any suggestions?

Link:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/toms-of-maine-toothpaste-bacteria-water-black-mold-fda-details/

Are there any oils that you have used that have helped lessen wrinkles? I just turned 42 and I feel like my skin looks pretty good except for the wrinkles I have around my mouth and forehead.

Hello! Just wondering if anyone has ever tried using clay powder as an alternative for cleaner? For the last few eeeks I've been trying a little bit of rhassoul clay mixed with colloidal oat powder and mixing with water before massaging on my face for 60 ish seconds and rinsing off and it's doing wonders for my skin texture! Soft smooth hydrated. Has anyone else had any success with using just clay rather than surfactant based cleansers?

Hi everyone! I’ve been looking to get more in to using natural beauty products and was talking about this with my mother in law last night. She told me she washes her face with witch hazel at night and uses castor oil as a moisturizer in the morning. She also said she sprays her face with rose water at least when she wakes up and before she goes to bed. I know that everyone’s skin can react differently to any product, but I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this routine? Does this seem like a good way to cleanse and moisturize to you all?

I am in search for a shampoo that has only the most neccessary ingredients to just thoroughly clean the hair and scalp. No more.

used up my tube of a local branded natural deodorant that is no longer in production. been searching for an alternative, that is vegan, no typical ingredients like aluminum or potential irritants like baking soda due to sensitivity. have looked into recommended ones like routine, but their vegan one has baking soda

the one I currently have includes magnesium hydroxide which I believe works well, in addition to arrowroot powder.

other ingredients: coconut oil, shea butter, rice bran wax, capric triglycerides, candelilla wax, eucalyptus, peppermint, tocopherols

What is your holy grail face cream? Looking for something anti-aging. No DIY please, I don’t want to make my own face cream😅 (Please no comments that clean is a hoax. I’m allowed to want a clean product.)

I have been using Nuud deodorant since 2021 and it had been doing a really good job of keeping me smell free (I know that’s not the case for everyone though). But I also wax my armpits instead of shaving and once after waxing this year I got a painless lump under my armpit which did resolve on its own but made me nervous. I saw that the new Nuud formula had caused lumps for people so I decided to switch to the Native sensitive skin deodorant (baking soda free). I think it gave me folliculitius and I got a really painful red lump on the top of my armpit and now my armpits itch sometimes which hasn’t ever happened. I want to go back to Nuud but also saw the formula has changed and there are lawsuits against them in France. I am not sure what others are using if you’ve had similar reactions to the Native or Nuud deodorants?

I’m on the hunt for something to quench my desert of a face.

I try to stay away from chemical laden goos as much as possible but haven’t found any good alternatives that really hydrated my epidermis.

I’ve recently tried beef tallow but I feel as though it’s breaking me out and I felt my skin even drier in the morning when I woke up.

Any suggestions for anything natural that really seeps into the facial cracks and brings you back to life?

Right now I use just plain jojoba oil about 2-3 times a day using some cheap glass perfume rollers I got off of eBay. I also soak my nails in a dish with olive oil once in a while. I'm wondering what oils you all use for your nails and cuticles and what your experiences are? I've also heard or argan oil, castor oil, and almond oil being used for cuticle or nail oils and I'm curious how those compare to jojoba or olive oil in your experience?