My lovely and talented friend Jessa is a makeup artist that specializes in organic beauty consulting and makeup artistry. She is a wealth of knowledge about all things beauty related. She has taught me so much about all of the horrible things that are in so many products we love, and the much less harmful alternatives to use instead. One of the resources that I learned about from Jessa was this site:

http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/

Not to be too dramatic, but it kind of changed me life.  It’s amazing.  You can put in a product and it tells you how harmful it is on a scale from 0(not harmful) to 10(harmful!!). It’s scary to look up products that I thought were all natural only to find out that they have a surprisingly high rating.