Don't Cover Up with CoverGirl

Don't let the excessive Photoshopping or sweet smiles fool you; CoverGirl is hardly a brand that warrants enthusiasm.  For a little clarification as to why, here’s the promised review of CoverGirl cosmetics, courtesy of Skin Deep Cosmetic Database:

CoverGirl

Unlike the previously reviewed Maybelline, CoverGirl only boasts ONE safely-rated product, its Cover FX Powder and Mineral Foundation.  The brand’s other products – all 918 of them – fall within a hazardous 3-9 range.  Interestingly enough, the majority of its cosmetics include a variety of foundations, all of which are liquid, and all of which are considered unsafe given their ingredients (with the exception of the Cover FX Powder and Mineral Foundation, which is a pressed powder foundation).

When transitioning to more natural and safe cosmetics and skin care, you’ll find it’s rather difficult finding a liquid foundation that is formulated with safe ingredients, even more so a liquid foundation that is both safe AND effective.  In having sampled several, I’ve found that many offer little coverage, if any, and are often rather greasy, having substituted conventional chemical additives for botanical oils.  In the former’s case, these conventional ingredients provide the easily applicable liquid consistency.  In the latter’s, plant oils and extracts must be utilized in such a way as to achieve a liquid consistency similar to that of their conventional counterparts.  Unfortunately, however, formulating natural liquid foundations with oil as a base offers little in the way of easy application or adequate coverage.  Even so, that’s not to say that both safe and effective liquid foundations don’t exist.  It simply necessitates trial-and-error, which natural/organic cosmetics companies are more than willing to cater to.  Unlike more well-known brands that require you commit to the purchase of a full-sized product if you want to try it out, companies like Alima Pure offer samples of ALL their products for very reasonable prices, along with the assurance that what you’re sampling is completely safe to use.