Body Shop Cosmetics Reviews

The Body Shop
Strengths: One of the few cosmetic companies that lists complete product ingredients on its Web site; affordable; the Aloe Products for Sensitive Skin are appropriate for that skin condition; good selection of eye makeup removers; one of the best pressed-powder foundations around; great pressed powder; liquid eyeliner; lip gloss; nice selection of affordable makeup brushes and specialty products; the entire makeup collection is laid out well, with testers, mirrors, and tissues readily available, plus a low key sales staff.
Weaknesses: The Tea Tree Oil and Kinetin collections; subcategories that focus on one beneficial ingredient (grape seed, vitamin C, etc.) to the exclusion of others, making for several collections of one-note products; no effective routine to address blemishes; poor skin-lightening products; surprisingly lackluster to poor foundations and concealers; poor long-wearing lip product.

Nature's Minerals by The Body Shop Review

Itâ??s never a good idea to leave home without a lip gloss. Usually I end up buying the gaudiest albeit least toxic lip goo available in a local drugstore.

This day, I stepped into a heavily scented The Body Shop haven – and yes, I managed to find a lip balm without parabens (a rare treat!) but most interestingly, I was surprised to enjoy a mineral makeup range that’s free from all the toxic nasties that normally pollute The Body Shop shelves.

The Nature’s Minerals range by The Body Shop is in fact the purest, greenest line in the whole store. Free from preservatives, bismuth oxychloride, synthetic fragrance, or other ugly ingredients, the line is made up of long-lasting foundations and cheek colors.

The shades are unfortunately too matte, and for a reason: they contain kaolin which is really good for acne-prone skin and is far less sensitizing than bismuth oxychloride. Titanium dioxide and zinc oxide play the major role, along with some mica for shimmer. Kaolin still contains aluminum but in an inert form, kept inactive by the salts.

The only drawback in the lovely mineral range by The Body Shop is the color selection. Foundations are all a bit too deep and yellowish for Brit skin tones, and cheek colors are too rusty and intense to apply them safely.

I would probably go for a shimmery light peach or golden pink (think NARS Orgasm in minerals, of course, not the real “orgasm” filled with FD&C colors and parabens) but the lightest shade in mineral cheek colors, Pink Quartz, left my cheek bright pink in a merciless, 1980s style.

Women with deeper skin tones, however, will find this line godsend. And the prices are very reasonable!

What I really see myself digging in to is The Body Shop’s mineral eye colors. Rich in clay that, according to the website, |Itâ??s never a good idea to leave home without a lip gloss. Usually I end up buying the gaudiest albeit least toxic lip goo available in a local drugstore.

This day, I stepped into a heavily scented The Body Shop haven – and yes, I managed to find a lip balm without parabens (thatâ??s a rare treat) but most interestingly, I was surprised to find a mineral makeup range that’s free from all the toxic nasties that normally pollute The Body Shop shelves.

The Nature’s Minerals range by The Body Shop is in fact the purest, greenest line in the whole store. Free from preservatives, bismuth oxychloride, fragrance, or other ugly ingredients, the line is made up of long-lasting foundations and cheek colors.