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What about Maybelline BB Cream? I use it quite frequently like twice in a day !

Hi Mila, we wrote about Skin79 here: http://www.truthinaging.com/face/skin79-diamond-absolute-total-bb-cream-vs-dr-jart-premium-bb

How about Skin79, one of the most popular BB creams?

I just want to clear up that, that is not the full list of ingredients for BRTC BB Cream Jasmine Water. According to Makeup Alley, here is the full list. It also contains silicones and talc. Propylene glycol, cyclomethicone, dimethicone, titanium dioxide, jasminum officinate flower water, sweet almond oil, methicone, isopropyl palmitate, hexyldecyl myristoyl methylaminopropionate, talc, ethyhexyl methoxycinnamate, butylene glycol dicaprate, hydrogenated polydecene, hydrogenated c6-14 olefin polymers, dipentaerythrityl hexahydroxystearate, cetyl PEG dimethicone, arbutin, iron oxides, zinc oxide, polyglyceryl-4 isostearate, magnesium sulfate, dimethicone, methicone silsesquioxane crosspolymer, phenoxyethanol, trihydroxystearin, glycosyl trehalose, disteardimonium hectorite, butylene glycol, portulaca oleracea extract, hydrogenated starch hydrolysate, aluminium stearate, aluminium hydroxide, methylparaben, silica, propylparaben, madecassoside, butylparaben, adenosine

i am the BB king (visit the blog and see the BB Cream collection i have). I have to say that all the BB Creams mentioned there are known to koreans as 'bb creams for little kids' though it is widely used by all women. The more 'serious' BB creams and highly recommended by Korean Women are the ones by AHC, Cellabel, Sunny VIP, Forensco etc.. Lately there have been more and more BB creams which are paraben / talc / mineral oil / silicone free. There are even BB Creams with ingredients such as EGF, peptides, Stem Cells, the list is endless..

Hi Aipalovik, Sarah quite properly linked her article and remarks on silicone to our longer article where we weigh up the research on silicones and safety. Here it is again: http://truthinaging.com/ingredient-spotlight/what-is-it-silicones-and-should-we-avoid-them. Silicones are toxic, but only if absorbed by the body. Some people may find them irritating. Some people, like me, don't like shelling out good money on something that has, at best, a superficial effect.

I would recommend that SarahK does a bit of serious research before making sweeping claims about silicones and using the popular cancer scare word. First, silicones are a family of chemically distinct substances which each have specific properties so there is no basis for generalizing. Allergenicity: all silicones commercialized in cosmetics are non-allergenic for obvious safety reasons. It is possible to induce allergenicity in silicones by introducing specific chemical groups but again these products are not used in skin contact applications. Cancer: lifetime exposure by inhalation of rats to extremely high levels of volatile siloxanes has shown tumors but reviews by independent scientists in Canada, United States and Europe have concluded no reasons for concern when looking at worst case exposure, by a wide safety margin. The effects are most probably based on rat-specific modes of action which are not relevant to humans. Finally, silicones have been increasingly used since 25-30 years in cosmetics due to their safety record, backed by hundreds of studies, and their ability to confer superior properties appreciated by consumers.

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