u/PuffsPlus2008

For me personally it’s meant looking for makeup and skincare that contains more environmentally friendly ingredients. I’m trying in particular to avoid polymers that don’t readily break down in the environment and petroleum-derived ingredients. This tends to overlap with “clean” brands, but not all clean beauty is environmentally friendly. Haus Labs and Ilia, for example, use many petroleum derived ingredients and polymers that persist in the environment.

One note re: petroleum-derived ingredients used in beauty, though: per Lab Muffin Beauty Science’s Michelle Wong, most of them are byproducts of the petroleum industry and aren’t created specifically to be used in cosmetics.