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I purchased this "Intuitive Cheek Color with Goji Berry-C Complex" around six months ago after seeing TiffanyD use it on YouTube. This gel blush starts out clear and then changes to pink when warmed up by your body heat. Smashbox claims that this blush is intuitive because each person will have a slightly different shade - they say the shade that you get is what you color you would blush naturally. When I use this, it immediately turns a bright pink when I squeeze a bit out on my fingertips; the pink deepens as I apply the blush to my cheeks. It's a bit scary at first, but tones down to a more moderate (but still bright) pink after a few minutes. I suppose the color is similar to the flush I get when I'm working out vigorously, but it's much more pink than what I consider to be my natural cheek color.
I hadn't heard anything about Smashbox being a natural cosmetic company, so I hadn't put this blush in with my "clean" ones. I finally ended up looking it up on Skin Deep and was very pleasantly surprised. It has a Skin Deep Rating of 0!
Ingredients: Cyclomethicone, Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Isononyl Isononanoate, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Punica Granatum, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Polysilicone-11, Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract, Lycium Barbarum Fruit Extract, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Plankton Extract, Red 27 (CI 45410)
I'll definitely keep Smashbox in mind when I make future makeup purchases.
what??are u sure?but it still contain dimethicone and silicones..@_@
ReplyDeleteyupyup - here's the link to the Skin Deep rating:
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However, you're right, it looks like part of the reason why it got a zero is because there's no data available on the dimethicone and polysilicone-11 :/
The EWG data sometimes isn't completed.Instead,you can read from this post here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.natural-skincare-authority.com/cosmetic-toxins.html
silicone isn't on the list,but it isn't that green either though:(
How disappointing. I will definitely take a closer look at Skin Deep Ratings from now on. Thanks for the helpful website, it's good to have more sources to help figure out what I'm comfortable using on my skin/face :)
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