Foundation in progress

I've been slacking off this month. It's been getting down to finals and I've been busy. I tried making some foundation with not a lot of success. I bought bentonite clay (Aztec Healing Clay) to try and make a nontoxic mineral powder. I mixed it with cornstarch, for oil absorbency, and cocoa powder and ginger for color. I wasn't thrilled with the results. I looked quite gray and very powdery on my face, and offered very little coverage. I found a good tutorial online that uses a combination of bentonite clay, cocoa powder, turmeric, and beetroot powder that has a much more skin-looking color to it. I ordered some beet powder online and will post the results with the new combo. In the mean time I looked up some all natural makeups for sale.

So far the best stuff I can find is by Rejuva Minerals. It's an all natural makeup containing ingredients I can actually pronounce and am familiar with, like rice powder and pomegranate. The catch is that it is quite expensive. A 3 gm "trial size" jar will run you $10.95, the regular 18 gm container is $39.95, and you can't test it out on your skin ahead of time to make sure the color matches, nor can you return or exchange your product. If your skin to is darker and fairly forgiving it probably won't be as much of a problem. For those with fairer skin it's a gamble. It really does seem like great stuff and if I had lots of money and were accustomed to spending $40 on a foundation it would be totally worth it. However, I am a poor grad student who has a hard time paying $12 for foundation so I'm going to keep plugging away at making my own powder.

The added bonus of buying beetroot powder is that it can also be used for a natural blush and to add color to lip balms, when I get to it.

For those of you who are interested you can check out the Rejuva Minerals products here: http://www.rejuvaminerals.com/store/