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FAIR TRADE: WHAT IT IS & WHY IT MATTERS

Sat, Sep 28, 19

Fair-trade is finally starting to take root in beauty #itsabouttime! In today’s blog, we’ll chat about:

  • What is fair-trade & why does it matter? 
  • Fair-trade & beauty products
  • Our fair-trade Ingredients + why they aren’t all fair-trade
  • What fair-trade means to us
  • How to find ethical beauty products 


What we don’t need to celebrate though is unnecessary, totally avoidable premature aging of our skin. If we can have smooth, glowy, gorgeous skin longer, of course we will say 1000x yes! So, let’s chat about getting the glow by embracing the good and releasing the toxic

This ingredient was first in the spotlight a few years ago when users of a popular mineral makeup line were having allergic reactions to their bismuth oxychloride-based products. It exploded on the internet and people started avoided any product containing this ingredient. So, what’s the deal? Is this ingredient safe? Can it cause allergic reactions? 

    Sephora is refining what clean means to them by expanding their no-no list to 50 ingredients that all ‘Clean at Sephora’ products must be formulated without!

    We use a combination of natural and synthetic mica. When we use natural mica, we source only from suppliers in the US or Malaysia. These areas have (and enforce) ethical labor standards which prevent the use of child labor. We avoid all mica from India or Madagascar where labor standards are unregulated and child labor is rampant. 

    Natural is good, synthetics are evil. Sound familiar? While we are all about non-toxic, organic, sustainable clean beauty, sometimes natural is not the best option. Keep reading for: 

    • Synthetic vs Natural: what do these terms even mean?
    • Does natural = non-toxic?
    • The synthetics we use and why - our vetting process.