There is also Fyrinnae's face primer, which I forgot to mention. It's base is aloe gel. It also has silica in it as its second ingredient, which helps sop up oil. It has a total of only 6 ingredients. I bought it for about $7. It comes in a 1 oz squeeze tube and lasts a long time. Keep in mind that all aloe is not equal, specifically prepacked stuff. Best to look for 'raw' aloe in the bottle - which would be refrigerated in a natural foods & supplements store, or even check your local Asian grocery stores for massive leaves of them for a very low price. Aloe is traditionally used for the hair to darken it up and make it more healthy. I used to see most of the women in villages buying it at their local outdoor markets or growing the massive plants in their yards. When I asked what they used it for, they said to prevent grey hair, make the hair stronger, longer & more shiny. They thought it was quite amusing when I told them that in western countries, we use aloe on the skin, for first aid, and internally for things like ulcers, intestinal problems, etc. Regarding paragons being found in the breast tissue of women, I suggest people do more research before believing everything they hear. I've been making natural products for approximately 20 or so years. Yet I would still choose parabens to preserve my products over the garbage companies are now using and is WORSE than parabens. It's called phenoxyethanol and has been banned in some countries. Yet if you look in most 'paraben free' products in the US & Canada, you will see phenoxyethanol on the ingredients label. In addition, parabens are found in the majority of packaged foods we eat. They also naturally occur in fresh fruits and other foods such as blueberries and many others. We put much more foods into our body in a lifetime than we apply makeup to our faces. So it stands to reason that those parabens in breast tissue are primarily from the foods we eat. It always shocks me when people don't think of such things as 'So what are they going to replace the parabens with, then? Will it be WORSE than the parabens?' I now tend to avoid all brands which claim to be 'paraben free' as I know they are just one of thousands which have followed the hype like sheep, and for marketing purposes only. They have all the info on these ingredients readily available to them, which the average uneducated consumer does not, yet they still knowingly choose to use ingredients in their products which they are aware have been banned in other countries. Companies such as these are why we as consumers still need to do our own careful research and not just follow along like sheeple.
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