A Blooming Love Affair

I have always been a fan of Bloom cosmetics, I am a packaging sucker, and the Bloom packaging is to die for! I had bloom everything, I say had, as about a year ago, I the products tested against my super sensitive skin, by a naturopath and it come up with not such great results, meaning I had to get rid of every bloom products I owned, and there was a lot! (Don’t tell the naturopath, but I actually didn’t get rid of them, I stopped using them, but all the little containers were so cute I couldn’t bring myself to bin them. I even still go into the bloom shop on chapel street, and look longingly at the gorgeous products, but alas I look from afar, until the other day, when I decided to try the Organics range. And let me just say my love affair with bloom has, well…blossomed. We are now inseparable! Bloom has done really well, they are genuine certified organic products, with little to no chemical content, I am impressed Ms. Bloom.

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Love,

Raw Polish

Cosmetifique

I got pretty excited the other day when I found an iphone app called cosmetifique (yeah its quite a mouthful). It’s an app that helps you identify harmful ingredients when cosmetic shopping. “Cosmetifique aims to show you if the ingredients really match the ‘natural’ claim or if they are actually harmful to you or the environment.” The rating system is pretty simple and easy to use with a green bubble for good ingredients going through to red for awful ingredients.

What could be more helpful! There is nothing worse than being in the shop, looking at the ingredient list and being like “wah???” but here it was a little miracle… well not quite…

…The rating system is a bit easy, leaning towards under rating the dangerous ingredients. It’s a great little app for the preliminary run down, or if you’re not sure if it’s a super doper chemical or just a long Latin name, but I wouldn’t rely on this one for the final say. Sigh, once again I would have to do all the hard work for myself, looks like I wont be getting rid of my ingredients dictionary after all.  


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Love,

Raw Polish

My Beauty Bag

Last year I overhauled my cosmetics bag and started again, I literally threw everything out and started from scratch. I am a make up junky, however after the overhaul my cosmetics bag is looking quite minimalist…. So here is what it now consists of…

Foundation Revlon was replaced by Almay Pure Blends

I loved the Revlon foundation, but I could feel my skin stinging every time I applied it, the Almay replacement is lovely, its so light on the skin, I can almost feel my skin breathing a sigh of relief.

VERDICT :)

Finishing Powder Non was replaced by Nutrimedics.

This is a recent addition, it is a great powder, I am seriously n love with it, but I think it will have to be retired, as the ingredients list is seriously naughty. VERDICT :(

Blush Bloom was replaced by Almay Pure Blends

I had the cutest Bloom Blush compact, and to be honest I still haven’t thrown it out, its just too cute. The Pure Blends blush pigment strength is a touch too light for what I want, I have to put on a few layers before I am happy, but on the bright side I never leave the house with unblended blush!

VERDICT :)

Bronzer Bloom was replaced by the Body Shop

This was really hard to find, in the end I bought a bronzer from the Body Shop, it has a warning on the packaging saying: may contain traces of Titanium Dioxide and Iron Oxide, but this is just to cover themselves incase some of the machines still have residue from other products. It’s a good strong colour,  you have to be careful that you don’t end up with two brown stripes on your face, but with a bit of blending it brings out a lovely sun kissed cheek.

VERDICT :)

Mascara Still looking….

I am currently using a Nutrimetics and a Maybelline mascara, neither of them are natural, but I just haven’t been able to find a natural mascara that has the wow factor, still looking.

VERDICT :(

Eyeliner M.A.C was replaced by Living Nature

Living Nature eyeliner in black and brown, they have a nice texture and melt on to the eye lid (with a little help from my hair dryer)

VERDICT :)

Eye shadow hundreds were replaced by one Almay Pure Blends

Almay Pure Blends Eye Shadow in copper, the colour is ok but the range is pretty basic, I am still looking for a range that rocks the colour like Napolean Perdis.

VERDICT :)

On the whole I’m pretty happy with the quality of the products, there are still a few things still on the wish list though

THE WISH LIST....

 A natural liquid eyeliner…do they even exists?

More eye Shadows, more colours!

Finishing Powder, this one is super hard as all natural powders have Titanium Dioxide in them.

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I’ll keep you posted on my hunt for the complete natural beauty bag.

Love,

Raw Polish 

The Story of Cosmetics

A shameless promotion

Normally bloggers only shamelessly promote a product if they have been sponsored, i.e. given the product free on the basis that they write nice stuff about it. Raw Polish isn’t quite at that stage yet, although hopefully soon, we will be…hint to natural cosmetics companies…

Any way, I was rating Dr. Alkaitis products for the Raw Polish site and I was just so impressed with the range that I am writing about it here in the blog, a first for this blog actually, if you are listening Dr. Alkaitis, I am damn impressed, so much so that the products actually got a consistent 5* rating! Dr. Alkaitis upholds everything that Raw Polish stands for.

As a research scientist investigating cancer treatments using plant life, Dr. Alkaitis concludes that there is indeed a correlation between our society’s dependence on synthetic chemicals and the rapid increase in people suffering from cancer, disease and other degenerative illnesses. He also states that chemical derived ingredients do not support the skins natural ability to heal. This last point is especially important because it is so often over looked; a synthetic Vitamin C is so not the same as the real thing!

So often with cosmetic ranges, the philosophy and the actual ingredients in the products really do not match up, but in this case I was not disappointed.

My 3 favourite products were:

The Organic Eye Creme

The Organic Day Crème

And the Organic Nourishing Treatment Oil

The masks were also pretty impressive, actually who am I kidding the whole range was impressive!


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Its refreshing and encouraging to find Skin Care ranges that actually do care for your skin!

Love, 
Raw Polish