Healthy alternatives
Fragrance-free
| Brand name | Product description |
| Earth’s beauty | Concealer |
| Honest Beauty | Bright Eyes Tinted Eye Cream, Terracotta/Sandstone |
| Rejuva Minerals | Concealer Powder |
DIY
Les Trappeuses offer a recipe to make your own concealer at home. You will need 4 ingredients:
4 g mango (or shea) butter
4 g jojoba oil
7 g zinc oxide
yellow and red or brown iron oxides
Melt the mango (or shea) butter in a small saucepan. Add the jojoba oil and zinc oxide; mix until you obtain an homogenous consistency. Add a little quantity of yellow iron oxide. Add a tiny quantity of brown or red iron oxide and mix. In order to find the right colour, which must be slightly lighter than your skin tone, restart the last two steps.
Wellness Mama provides another recipe, available here.
Avoid the following chemicals in regular products
Alumina: neurotoxic
BHA: possible carcinogen, endocrine disruptor, possible toxic to reproduction
BHT: possible carcinogen, endocrine disruptor
Dimethicone: irritant to eyes
Ethylene oxide: possible carcinogen
Imidazolidinyl urea: irritant, may cause contact dermatitis
Mineral oil: possible carcinogen, depending on the degree of purification, allergenic
Parabens: endocrine disruptors
Phenoxyethanol: irritant, allergen
Polyethylene glycol (PEG): possible carcinogen (by release of 1,4-dioxane dans sodium lauryl sulfate), irritant to skin, eyes and respiratory tract
Propylene glycol: irritant, allergen
Retinyl palmipate (of vitamin A): possible carcinogen (see EWG)
Silica: possible carcinogen, irritant to eyes and respiratory tract
Starch acid octenylsuccinate, aluminium salt: neurotoxic
Talc: possible carcinogen, irritant to skin, eyes and respiratory tract
TEA (Triethanolamine): skin, eye and respiratory irritant, respiratory and skin sensitizer