DIY Mineral Makeup

Step 4 Transfer

Time to transfer your miracle mixture into a usable container!

Using a funnel, transfer foundation powder into a 30 gr sifter jar for easy application.
Take it everywhere and brag to your friends about how you made your own proprietary blend.

Comments

[miafrieda]

Great to know that I can also find these things in BA. I also live in Argentina, and I'm constantly hating this country and thinking why proper natural and organic skincare and makeup can't be found here and that only big old brands like L'Oreal or Lancome rule this country. I know those comments are from 2009, but have any of you or any in here found really the ingredients? Where did you found them? What about the oils? I never had luck finding good oils and essential oils here, and raw, organic, natural stuff, like essential oils, clays, herbs and stuff like that. Argentinean Patagonia is also the second producer or rosehip oil after Chile and I couldn't even find a good, organic certified oil here! Not to talk about essential oils, impossible. Any information will be appreciated!

[bethany4287]

coastalscents.com has a lot of ingredients for making your own makeup and lotion etc.

[Trixie.in.Dixie]

Hi, I just happened to find this page looking for a recipe to make mineral makeup. I order a lot of color/base ingredients from http://www.tkbtrading.com/ - they are not the only ones who sell raw materials, but they have the widest selection I have ever seen! There are a lot of indie makeup sellers who find their ingredients here, which is how I discovered them. Look for the dry ingredients under the "makeup" tab and the oils/waxes under the Lipstick tab. Hope that helps!

[aknittel herman]

i am a little late on this, but just wondering, approx. how much did it cost to purchase all the ingredients and how much makeup did you get from them? i am looking for makeup without the toxins that doesn't cost me an arm and a leg as i am on a very tight (graduate student and parent!) budget. thanks!

[Nelore]

Coastal Scents has all of the ingredients, except for Vitamin E oil and the mortar and pestle. :]

http://www.coastalscents.com

[prunedanish]

this is amazing! I so want to do it...but I live in south america and can't imagine where I would begin to look for these ingredients. i like that it has an spf factor. do you suppose I could find any of this stuff in a pharmacy?

[marcela]

Where in South America do you live? Usually these kind of products can be found in the old fashioned "farmacias" that used to be more of chemists and mix the ingredients for you than in the regular chain stores. I'm from Buenos Aires, Arg, and that's where you'd normally go to find them. Good luck! And let me know if you had found them. Cheers!

[prunedanish]

Hi Marcella, I'm currently living in Buenos Aires also. i have a local farmacia who helped me track down quajo en polvo and borato de sodio. I would just have to figure out how to say most of these things in spanish...

[marcela]

Look in your yellow pages for your local "drogueria" There used to be a few in Centro (downtown) that I remember and also in San Telmo. But best is to look around the yellow pages. What neighborhood are you in? Did you try going one by one with the dictionary? Usually chemicals and minerals go by a very similar name. I'll look up at the ingredients and try to help out.

[prunedanish]

Any guidance is appreciated (and its so cool that other people in BA are on here reading this exact same instructable). i live in zona norte and work in palermo soho. I recently found one around the corner from my office. He's definitely gonna look at me funny when I go in with my list: trying to figure out which are the most important base components to start with. I guess zinc oxide and pigment...

[scoochmaroo]

Best to check online. And check out other commenters' remarks on substitutes they've used!

[enigmaticfille]

This sounds amazing, But i live in India..... where am i gonna go looking for these things