Organicizing My Makeup: Physicians Formula Organic Wear Concealers
Even the Needle needs a wee bit of help looking breathtaking each day. So why not try to add a little organicizing to the ol’ makeup bag? So…I picked up Physicians Formula Organic Wear 100% Natural Origin Concealers in Fair & Green. (No I am not the swamp thing. Green covers red which I tend to get around my nose during the colder weather…when I hear Santa needs help with his sleigh.)
Packaging…Let’s start with the positive. The outer packaging is just paper. With the rather clever construction they completely eliminated the need for the clam shell type covering most makeup uses. Sweet. Hopefully that alone will inspire redesigns for all makeup…organic or not. The inner packaging is better…but the makeup is still essentially in a plastic tube with paper covering. I guess they could use glass…but maybe that would be a safety issue since you are cramming it onto your face.
Price…6.95 each. That seems to be on par with other concealers.
Now for the not so nicey nice.
Smell…yes it is important since I wear the green on my snout. Rancid olive oil. I now know why they add so much fragrance to makeup. Holy skunk butt. If this were the only issue I would just plug my nose and soldier on…but…keep reading.
Ingredients…better…but wait. Sounds really good at first: organic olive oil, organic soybean oil, beeswax, avocado oil….and then a big list of flowers. I’m feeling girly just looking at the list. But right at the end they slip in some other familiar names that don’t sound so tasty: talc, titanium dioxide, iron oxide, which is rust, no? Do these qualify as natural? I guess they do occur naturally. So does snail slime…doesn’t mean I want some on my face.
Performance…Now for the big So What…does it work? Depends what you mean by work. First the makeup was so thick and sticky you couldn’t apply it like a stick…which is kind of the point of a concealer STICK. Both of them broke when I tried. I was able to use a lipstick brush to apply it and it managed to conceal. Amazing!
So…although I give Physicians Formula big props for reinventing the makeup packaging…they have a lot of work to do in the actual makeup department. Bottom line: Swampy no recommend.
Wow! I just tried this last week and had the SAME thing happen with the stick not working at all until it broke. Also, I used it as cover up for a smaller pimple that is now a BIG pimple, (possibly as a result) so I’m not super thrilled about that. It did work well for dark under-eye circles too, but it’s not on my buy again list.
Ugh. I am just giving up on makeup. It’s so hard to find something eco-friendly that works! I’ve decided to embrace my rosacea-red skin. (don’t touch my mascara, though - gotta have my Tammy Faye Lashes!)
I’m saving all my super-toxic good stuff for truly momentous occasions. And hoping this will last me the rest of my life, or at least until they can start formulating organics that work.
The glimmer of light? Surprisingly, my local, hand-made, castille-style goat soap is actually helping reduce the redness, acne and “angry-skin”!
booooooo that sucks!! I still haven’t ventured into the whole organic make-up territory because I buy new makeup like once a millenium. But that is frustrating!
Yeah, i thought I got an expired tube it smelled so bad. I broke it right away too. It was on sale from 11$ to 8$ CDN so i feel ripped off. I hope it stays on through the day because as hard as it was, i seems like it’s tacky and in the process of melting into my undereye creases.