Beautycounter is a brand that offers clean beauty and safer skincare products that are meticulously screened for safety. The company has both positive and negative aspects. On the positive side, Beautycounter sets goals such as eliminating unit cartons, launching the first refillable product, avoiding virgin plastic in a minimum of 30% new launches and repacks, and moving packaging closer to home when possible. They also seek 100% recycled, recyclable, refillable, reused, or compostable packaging by 2025. The company advocates for more health-protective legislation and has helped pass a law requiring manufacturers to disclose 66 harmful chemicals in children’s clothes, toys, and personal care products. They also supported the Microbead Free Waters Act which prohibits the manufacturing and distribution of personal care products containing plastic microbeads.
On the negative side, Beautycounter makeup and skincare products contain phenoxyethanol, synthetic colorants, and few organic oils and extracts. Phenoxyethanol is a controversial synthetic preservative that has toxic potential, particularly harmful for the liver. Synthetic colorants can be contaminated with traces of heavy metals and petroleum contaminants. Compared to mineral pigments, some synthetic colorants have higher limits for lead, arsenic, and mercury.
Dior Forever Undercover Foundation is a product that contains phenoxyethanol, a controversial synthetic preservative that has toxic potential, particularly harmful for the liver. The foundation is based entirely on synthetic ingredients, mainly silicones, for texture or moisturizing, synthetic preservatives for conservation, and synthetic solvents.
Dior Forever Skin Correct Concealer contains ingredients such as water, methyl trimethicone, phenyl trimethicone, isododecane, and disteardimonium hectorite. The product also contains aluminum hydroxide, which functions as an opacifying agent, emollient, and skin protectant. The product contains some colorants that may cause irritation.
Beautycounter has a "Never List" of ingredients that they avoid using in their products, including ethanolamines, formaldehyde, and many others. However, Dior does not have a similar list of ingredients that they avoid using in their products.
In summary, Beautycounter is a brand that offers clean beauty and safer skincare products that are meticulously screened for safety. However, their products contain some synthetic ingredients and colorants that may be harmful. Dior Forever Undercover Foundation contains phenoxyethanol, a controversial synthetic preservative that has toxic potential, particularly harmful for the liver. Dior Forever Skin Correct Concealer contains some colorants that may cause irritation. Beautycounter has a "Never List" of ingredients that they avoid using in their products, but Dior does not have a similar list.
