I originally bought this foundation because it was 100% natural and so good for the skin without being full of nut oils that are often seen in natural foundations. Here are the color choices and ingredients from the website:
Ingredients: Organic Aloe Barbadensis Leaf (Aloe Juice)1, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Starch, Extracts of Prunus Persica Fruit (Peach), Prunus Armeniaca Fruit (Apricot), Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa Bean) and Lycium Barbarum Fruit (Goji Berry), Euterpe Oleracea Pulp (Acai) Oil, Punica Granatum Fruit Extract (Pomegranate Oil), Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Sodium Ascorbate (Vitamin C), Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax, Extracts of Organic Camelia Sinensis Leaf Ferment (White Tea)2, Coffea Arabica (Coffee Cherry), Aristotelia Chilensis (Maqui Berry), Vitis Vinifera Skin (Muscadine Grape), Garcinia Mangosteen Peel (Mangosteen), Malpighia Punicifolia Fruit (Acerola), Sambucus Canadensis (Elderberry), Citrus Grandis (Grapefruit) Seed, Lonicera Caprifolium (Japanese Honeysuckle)
SUNSCREEN ACTIVE INGREDIENTS: 15% Titanium Dioxide, 10% Zinc Oxide
foundation with minimal blending |
Net wt.1 oz / 30 ml
1 certified organic by SGS Organic
2 certified organic by Oregon Tilth Certified Organic
The colour has a good tone and is on the yellow spectrum rather than pink. It produces a really nice warm, glowing appearance.
The foundation is a little hard to blend, but with warm hands (I've found this the best method of application) it blends after some time. The consistency is good, as is the coverage. The finish is almost powdery, but I wear a moisturizer under which provides a even softer finish.
foundation after blending |
My main issue with this foundation is that despite loving my make up when leaving the house, after a few hours, the foundation seems to vanish off parts of my face and stay on others and also change to an orangy colour. The staying power is not good. This is obviously not a great look, and for this reason I only recommend the foundation for short periods of time. I haven't tried this foundation with a primer (as I haven't found a natural version that I like yet, and using a chemical version would take the point out of a natural foundation), but using a primer may help the foundation last.
At the moment, I can't get the foundation to work for me, but hopefully I'll keep trying to find ways to help the foundation work. I'd like to try 100% pure's tinted moisturizer and see if that is any better. But for now, I'll stick to the chemicals, it's a shame, but I guess we really can't live without the chemicals.
Overall, I give this foundation 6/10.