Eco Friendly Make Up Remover

Eco-Friendly Make-Up Remover is Safe and Easy!

Sure, make up is great – but you need to remove it at night. Throughout the night, your whole body cleanses and repairs itself – and your skin can’t do its job if it’s coated in make-up. It’s easy to buy commercial removers – but the eco-friendly make-up removers in this article are totally safe to use (and they’re generally cheaper too).

So always remove your make-up at night and let your skin ‘breathe’.

Here are some simple recipes for eco-friendly make-up remover.

The Simplest Eco-Friendly Make-Up Remover

• Pour equal parts of olive oil and pure witch hazel into a clean bottle. Shake well.

That’s it – couldn’t be simpler! Add some to a cotton ball or pad and swipe over your skin.

Tip: check the ingredients when you buy witch hazel. Some have all sorts of additives.

Waterproof Eco-Friendly Make-up Remover

• 2 Tbsp coconut or jojoba oil
• 2 Tbsp pure witch hazel
• 2 Tbsp pure filtered water
• 1 tsp vitamin E (optional – it’s said to benefit your skin, but isn’t necessary for removing make up).

1. Add to a clean bottle and shake well before every use.
2. Put some liquid on your fingers or on a cotton ball or make up pad. Swipe over closed eyes.

This can also be used to tidy up stray make-up when you apply it.

What About Baby Oil?

I know many people who use baby oil to remove make up, or even as a moisturizer. You’d think baby oil would be safe, wouldn’t you? (After all, it’s marketed for use on babies).

But baby oil is essentially mineral oil (which is made from petroleum) (also known as liquid paraffin).

Well, that’s definitely NOT eco-friendly!

Plus, it often contains “fragrance” (which can be anything – fragrance is a horrible catch-all phrase ).

No thanks – it’s just so easy to use plant ingredients instead!

It’s Easy and Green!

As you can see, it’s incredibly easy to make safe, natural and eco-friendly make-up remover!

You’ll never have to buy it in the shops ever again, and you don’t need to worry about what’s in it, because you’ll know – you made it yourself, with the best ingredients!

Benefits of Eco Friendly Make Up

There are so many benefits to making your own eco friendly make up and make up remover:

1. You save money
2. You avoid potentially toxic products
3. You reduce your carbon footprint by buying less “stuff”
4. All of the eco friendly make up options make great gifts
5. Or you could even sell them for extra income (so many people think it’s really difficult to make your own – but you know it’s easy!).

What do you use to remove make up? And do you make you own make up – do you wear any at all? Let me know in the Comments below.

You might also be interested in –

• Eco friendly blush or blusher
• Eco friendly lipstick, lip balm and lip gloss
• Eco friendly eye shadow
• Eco friendly make up tips

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Related: eco friendly skin care

Editor’s note – this article was originally written in 2015 and has been updated.