I Reviewed 20 Makeup Brands So You Don't Have To...

1. Monat

   Red Flags: artificial dyes in their color cosmetics, and they do not have organic botanical ingredients 

2. 

   Tarte

   Red Flags: artificial dyes in their color cosmetics, artificial fragrance, artificial flavor, PEGs, PPGs, cyclopentasiloxane, aluminum hydroxide, phenoxyethanol, disodium EDTA, and they do not have organic botanical ingredients 

   

   
   

3. Merit

   Red flags:  aluminum hydroxide, steareth, phenoxyethanol, artificial dyes in their color cosmetics, and they do not have organic botanical ingredients

   

4. Mary Kay

   Red flags: cyclopentasiloxane, PEGs, PPGs, aluminum hydroxide, microplastics, Disodium EDTA, methylparaben, propylparaben, artificial dyes, no organic botanical ingredients

   

   
   

5. Ilia Red flags: artificial dyes in the color cosmetics, no organic botanical ingredients

   

6. Kosas

   Red flags: artificial dyes in the color cosmetics, no organic botanical ingredients 

   

7. RMS

   Red flags: artificial dyes in the color cosmetics

   

8. Typology

    Red flags: artificial dyes in the tinted cosmetics, aluminum hydroxide, no organic botanical ingredients 

   

9. Seint

   Red flags: talc, phenoxyethanol, paraffin, petrolatum, no organic botanical ingredients 

   

10. Bare Minerals 

    Red flags: artificial dyes in the tinted cosmetics, PPG, microplastics, polysorbate, aluminum hydroxide, phenoxyethanol, no organic botanical ingredients 

    

11. IT Cosmetics 

    Red flags: artificial dyes in the tinted cosmetics, microplastics, artificial fragrance, PPG, phenoxyethanol, paraffin, mineral oil, petrolatum, aluminum hydroxide, steareth, no organic botanical ingredients 

    

12. Il Makiage 

    Red flags: cyclopentasiloxane, PEG, PPG, Octocrylene, talc, phenoxyethanol, artificial fragrance, Disodium EDTA, aluminum, microplastics, artificial dyes in the color cosmetics, no organic botanical ingredients 

    

13. Physicians Formula 

    Red flags: flavor/aroma, phenoxyethanol, PEG, PPG, paraffin, steareth, fragrance, artificial dyes in the color cosmetics, no organic botanical ingredients 

    

14. Estee Lauder 

    Red flags: Cyclopentasiloxane, PEG, PPG, alumina, phenoxyethanol, fragrance, artificial dyes in the color cosmetics, no organic botanical ingredients 

    

15. Charlotte Tilbury 

    Red flags: PEG, PPG, cyclopentasiloxane, microplastics, phenoxyethanol, polysorbate, aluminum hydroxide, fragrance, BHT, artificial dyes in the color cosmetics, no organic botanical ingredients

    

16. NARS 

    Red flags: aluminum hydroxide, alumina, phenoxyethanol, octinoxate, microplastics, PEG, fragrance, artificial dyes in the color cosmetics, no organic botanical ingredients 

    

17. e.l.f.

    Red flags: PEG, phenoxyethanol, aluminum hydroxide, fragrance, microplastics, PPG, talc, mineral oil, artificial dyes in the color cosmetics, no organic botanical ingredients 

    

18. Haus labs 

    Red flags: PPG, aluminum hydroxide, polysorbate, phenoxyethanol, artificial dyes in the color cosmetics, no organic botanical ingredients 

    

19. Tower28 

    Red flags: aluminum hydroxide, phenoxyethanol, artificial dyes in the color cosmetics, no organic botanical ingredients 

    

20. Fenty 

    Red flags: PEG, PPG, aluminum hydroxide, aroma/flavor, fragrance, paraffin, phenoxyethanol, microplastics, artificial dyes in the color cosmetics, no organic botanical ingredients

    

    
    

MY TOP PICK FOR MAKEUP:

Crunchi 

Red flags: none 

Green flags: organic botanical ingredients, no artificial dyes in the color cosmetics 

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