1. What’s in your Makeup?
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2. BareMinerals Original Foundation
Titanium Dioxide
Bismuth Oxychloride
Iron Oxides
Zinc Oxide
Mica
About BareMinerals
BareMinerals is by far one of the most popular brands today
What are you really putting all over your face?

3. Titanium Dioxide Makes up 12.6% of the active ingredients
Also found in paint, sunscreen, toothpaste, papers, ink, foods and pills
Provides opacity
Certain grades make it ideal for the cosmetic industry
UV resistant & major agent in sunscreen
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4. Zinc Oxide Makes up 21% of the active ingredients
Can be an additive in plastics, ceramics, glass, rubber, cigarette filters, and first aid tapes
Mineral zincite occurs naturally but most zinc oxide is produced synthetically
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5. Bismuth Oxychloride
Used in cosmetics such as eye shadow, hair sprays, powders, nail polishes, etc.
Provides a pearly pigment
Used in cosmetics since days of Ancient Egypt
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6. Mica Main component of mineral makeup
Over exposure can be hazardous because the small particles can get caught in your lungs
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7. Iron Oxides Inexpensive
provides “earthy colors” such as dark red, orange, yellow, brown or black
No major risk
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8. About BareMinerals
BareMinerals started the mineral makeup craze back in the mid 1990s
This is a cruelty-free brand
Mineral makeup may contain small particles and when inhaled it is possibly carcinogenic to humans; according to the International Agency for Research on Chancer (IARC)
This brand is approved by the FDA
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