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Emma Grady

For Luscious Lips, Try Primitive's Petroleum-Free Lipstick

Is petroleum lurking in your cosmetic case? As Meg points out in her post, if you're
packing lipstick or lip plumper--and/or many other common beauty products — it's highly likely.
Fortunately, Primitive Makeup offers luscious colors without a chemical-laden list of ingredients--
like petrochemicals, parabens, or synthetic colors.

Click through to find out why Primitive Makeup gets Jane Goodall's and our--they sent us
complimentary colors--kiss of approval. And, we picked out a perfect hue for you; That is, if
you're a vegan, organitarian, or humanitarian. More:

Primitive Makeup's line of natural cosmetics is comprised of lipsticks, glosses, and lip pencils.
All products are made in the USA and are not tested on animals. According to Nancy Caigan,
founder Primitive Makeup, "It is essential that the makeup line be 100% all natural, made
entirely of naturally occurring ingredients, with no synthetics, additives, or preservatives."

Whether you're a vegan, organitarian, or humanitarian there's a hue for you:

For vegans, try "Tahiti" or "Taj Mahal"; both are formulated without the use of animal products.
Other lipsticks do contain beeswax, and/or carmine (a natural red pigmentfrom the dried female
insect Coccus cacti).

For humanitarians, look for "Tahiti" or "Belize" lip colors. These two hues are Jane Goodall
favorites and they wear the "Good for All" brand, which recognizes environmentally conscience
products; A percentage of the proceeds are donated to the Jane Goodall Institute.

For organitarians, opt for Primitive lip pencils which have been certified organic by the Kentucky
Department of Agriculture. According to Primitive's website, the "lipsticks and ?lip glosses are
completely natural, but not yet certified organic."

Feelgood Style

Emma Pezzack

Primitive Makeup is Highly Evolved

When you hear the word 'primitive' it conjures basic, rudimentary, little evolved –
however, this new organic lipstick, lipgloss and lip pencil collection from Primitive
Makeup is anything but. As a makeup artist I have an uncompromising point of
view when it comes to organic and natural beauty products performing at least
as well as their conventional counterparts, if not better. Moisture-drenching
lipsticks in colors that look great on everyone and that stay put; organic lip
pencils that apply softly with one swipe to deposit color but firm enough to

outline; award-winning lipgloss that isn't a sticky mess but still delivers high
shine… and that's just the product. It has to smell great, taste good, and be
packaged well with a brand narrative and ingredient list that resonates with the
entire organic & natural ethos. Primitive Makeup is not only all of the above,
it's a dead ringer for MAC without all the synthetics and chemicals. Winners of
the Natural Solutions "Best Lip Gloss" award and the only cosmetic company
in the world to carry the seal of approval from the Jane Goodall Institute, I'd
say they not only match their counterparts, they've outshone them on every
level. Writer :: Emma Pezzack – www.futurenatural.com: the best organic beauty
products in the world.

Paige Padgett / Green Beauty Expert

Tis The Season To Be Sexy and Civilized

Primitive Morocco Lip Pencil

There's nothing more unappealing than spider-
web lip lines. Primitive's lip pencil is 100% natural with no synthetics, additives,
or preservatives. Some of you may be skeptical about the performance of natural
lip pencil but the deep terracotta red color is creamy enough to fill in your lips
yet hard enough to give great definition when simply lining. The best part? This
great give is under $20! You're welcome.

Organic Beauty View

Emma Pezzack

Get Set For A Creamy, Sexy Pout — The Five Top Natural Lipsticks

The cold can take its toll on lips in Winter, leaving your normally luscious lips
locked in parchment land rather than with your love. Trouble is, lipstick can often
add to the problem with long-wearing formulas that are too drying, even though
they stay the distance. These ultra creamy, super emollient lipsticks will give you
all the color you crave, the moisture-drenching you need, and the staying power
you demand, with only natural and organic ingredients and on-trend colors,
perfect for winter.

Primitive Natural Lipstick – Corsica: Award-winning, exceptionally emollient and

rich color; Corsica is a shade that seems to work on everyone.

EcoStiletto

Incredible Edible Eco-Beauty

Good enough to eat. We say it about dessert—and that gorgeous guy on the
second floor who hoses off his mud-covered mountain bike in the courtyard on
Saturdays.

Yummy.

But what about beauty? If you consider that 60% of what goes on our skin goes
in our bodies, wouldn't it make sense to use products that are safe enough to
eat in the first place?

When we put our favorites to the test, we found that many of them are—
technically—edible. That's because they eschew parabens, phthalates, synthetic
perfumes and other petro-chemicals in favor of truly natural, organic-whenever-
possible ingredients.

Note the use of the word "technically." Please don't call us with a bellyache after
you decide to make your face mask your meal: These products are formulated
without taste in mind, no matter how safe they might be to ingest. Oh, and p.s.
we scored $1,300 in edible eco-beauty giveaways!

Primitive Makeup

The Environmental Working Group shook up the beauty industry last year when
it found that 60% of lipsticks contain lead, a known neurotoxin. Add to that the
fact that the average woman eats about nine pounds of lipstick over the course
of her lifetime—just from licking her lips. Ick.

That's why we love Primitive lipsticks. Made with natural waxes, shea butter,
vanilla extract and vitamin E, the rainbow of gorgeous colors in the Primitive
line up is created exclusively from elements like iron oxides and carmine. Lip
smackin'.

goddess.huntress

Primitive Makeup

goddess.huntress. was graced to receive lip products from the inspirational
founders of Primitive Makeup. The creaminess, pigment, and moisture of
both Primitive Makeup's lipsticks and lip glosses perform at really high levels, it
will promote the abandonment of your daily lip balm applications. The lip glosses
leave an extremely comfortable shiny finish, without feeling sticky or taffy-like.
Their lipsticks, lip glosses, and lip pencils are wonderfully emollient with a medley
of oils such as jojoba, vitamin E, castor, wheat germ, coconut, and palm kernel,
along with shea butter.

Primitive Makeup offers a rich, sophisticated color palette while keeping your
pout extra healthy. The line also includes a unique gold shimmer lipstick
named Taj Mahal that is great for adding a gold dimension top coat to lipstick or
to create highlight on bare lips or cheekbones. Primitive Makeup is synthetic,
additive, andpreservative free.

Along with being highly reviewed by many consumers and media, Primitive
Makeup is also the first cosmetics company to be recognized by the Jane
Goodall Institute with its "Good For All" brand. The Jane Goodall Institute honors
companies that create social and nourishing environments for all living things.
In fact, when you purchase Primitive Makeup lipstick in colors Belize or Tahiti a
percentage goes to the Jane Goodall Institute.

These products out perform commercial synthetic brands and will always be a
staple in the goddess.huntress. makeup bag…BRILLIANT!

Feel beautiful, feel healthy, and make a difference.

Ecomii

Best Sheer Color: Primitive Lipstick

Primitive's line of lip products is inspired by the ways women have been making themselves beautiful for centuries, through the use of berries, wildflowers and herbs. Primitive uses only pure ingredients, which means no additives, preservative or artificial colors. My favorite is the Tahiti lipstick, which adds a pretty rosy shine to lips. It goes on like a whispery light lipstick and leaves no aftertaste. For a more opaque color, use it with one of the company's lip liners.

Body + Soul magazine

Eco Gift Guide 2008

Gloss Over

Natural makeup is sexy makeup. We love these silky glosses from Primitive, the newest addition to the company's luscious lipstick line. Made entirely of pure ingredients such as shea butter, candelilla wax, and vitamin E, and without artificial colors or parabens, the non-tacky glosses condition and moisturize lips.

Washington Post / SPRIG

Best Lipsticks, Palettes and Glosses for Every Complexion

Bold and Beautiful

Although lipstick's popularity has given way to gloss in recent years, we're sure women will never give up bold, vibrant color. In fact, the NY Times reports that lipstick sales are jumpin' — to the tune of 40%. Why? Lovely lips are an easy, low-cost, pick-me-up in economically gloomy times like these. A well-defined lip in an arresting shade sets off your eye and hair color and brings a bit of polish to your overall look. Considering that the average woman consumes some five pounds of the stuff in her lifetime, the less harmful the ingredients, the better. So put your best foot forward with Primitive's bright rainbow of hues...

Ideal Bite

a sassier shade of Green

Pretty Prehistoric

One downside to Paleolithic style? Well, there wasn't any. But now you can pretty up by getting Primitive - an all-natural line of lipsticks created with ingredients like shea butter and vitamin E, and free of parabens, lead, and other synthetic chems. Each of the eight different shades tastes like real vanilla and can withstand kissing (whether cheeks, lips, or other locales). We picked up the terracotta-hued Morocco for nights out, and Taj Mahal gold shimmer for days. The lipsticks are made nearby in Woodstock, NY, so there's less CO2 created during transport. Prehistoric never looked this good.

Wanna Try Primitive Makeup, available online or at Whole Body at Whole Foods Market, 260 Seventh Ave. at 25th St. and other Whole Foods Markets in Manhattan (845-679-2264).

The Knack

Primitive Cosmetics gives me gorgeous Fall lips!

I love featuring companies that you may not know about. I hadn't heard of Primitive Cosmetics until recently, but boy am I glad that I found them!

So you've got amazing rich colours that moisturize and condition your lips and all with completely natural ingredients - it's what we've always wanted, isn't it?

I got 2 colours to try- Corsica and Taj Mahal. I love how when you put them on, you can feel the slick moisture of it immediately! The soft vanilla scent and taste isn't too bad either...You can certainly feel the incredibly quality of the ingredients and my lips remained soft and pretty all day.

The Taj Mahal looks a little intimidating when you first see it in the tube - the bright gold colour might have you thinking Joan Collins and "Dallas" days, but don't worry - it goes on as a very soft, warm gold that you can wear on its own or layered on top of another colour.

I have never been able to pull off any kind of gold - nail polish, lipstick or eye shadow - but I have to say that a soft swipe of the Taj Mahal on my lips and I look somehow a little better than moments before - like I've had a nap or a massage or something. It glams me up just a little. Not like I'm off to a nightclub glam (because it gives a soft shimmer, not a glossy shine), but like I've taken just a little extra care in getting ready. Quite honestly, I couldn't have guessed the effect it would have on my face. I just might have to wear this one every day, I love it that much!

And Corsica is just lovely. A rich, matte plumy pink that is just a little richer than my own lip colour gives me a rich pout that is full and sexy without being too much, too "there." In fact, it looks like my own lips but just a more perfect outline and shape and consistent colour. It's like I've been photoshopped just slightly to look better, yet all it took was a quick once over with the lipstick. My lips look like magazine lips - a little plumper, a little more defined, but otherwise all my own. And I even stayed within the lines!

See? You can look natural and beautiful without any fancy tools or tricks. Just an all natural lipstick that flatters and makes you look good.

It's heaven! You can shop for them in person or online.

Refinery 29 / Pipeline

12 Eco-chic Skincare Products That Truly Work!

Kermit was right: It's really not easy being green. While we want so badly to use paraben-free lotions, petrochemical-less eye creams, and sans-sulfite lipsticks, what we usually get are products that smell amazing but don't work worth a lick. So, your friends at The Pipeline decided to road-test a mix of new and established organic and natural skincare lines to see what worked and what just smelled nice. We left out the baddies, but here's our list of hands-down hits.

Primitive Makeup Natural Lip Color
The creators behind Primitive lipstick spent a full year formulating it to ensure the perfect balance of pure ingredients and natural color. Rich with ultra-moisturizing shea butter and scented with vanilla, this is the ultimate lip treat. "I am a lipstick whore, and knowing that this gorgeous shade of ripe plum (called Tahiti) isn't going to give me liver failure is a plus."