Non Toxic Beauty

What is non toxic beauty?

Superficially, it is about using beauty products which are made with natural, organic ingredients rather than synthetic chemicals which are better for us and the environment.

On a different level, I think it is about non toxic ideals about beauty.

Media can be very encouraging of images of idealised beauty. Youth, unblemished skin, tiny waists, pouty lips. No wrinkles, no cellulite, no tufts of unruly hair.

So many of the images we see on social media are altered, edited or filtered, encouraged to be more perfect, less imperfect. Lips are inflated, eyelashes extended, waists sucked in.

I’m not saying there is anything wrong with makeup, filters or ideals, but can we still find ourselves beautiful with wrinkles, saggy bits or tummy rolls?

My idea of non toxic beauty is loving and accepting ourselves as we are, seeing the beauty of our natural selves.

Non toxic products are a healthy bonus.