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Beautycounter's skin twin foundation

  WHY CHOOSE SAFER FOUNDATION PRODUCTS?   Makeup, and especially foundation, is to me an important switch to make, and the biggest reason is because of the fact that your foundation actually sits on your face pretty much all day.  Which means there’s more time for those products and ingredients to be absorbed into your bloodstream.... Conventional foundations often contain emollients and emulsifiers known as polyethylene glycols (PEGs) that may be contaminated with known carcinogens.  Not to mention if you’re looking at foundation products with SPF in them, you’re also  potentially absorbing harmful chemical sunscreens, or nano particles along with things like PEGs. In our foundation products, we achieve safer status by using non-nano zinc oxide as our mineral sunscreen agent (an effective mineral that has not been found to be harmful to the ocean ecosystem).   We also avoid chemical sunscreens linked to hormone disruption, and avoid nano part...