Good Guide

During my Dead Week trip to Myrtle my friend told me about an app she really liked called Good Guide. It is an app that grades products based on how good it is for the user's health, the environment, and society. My friend said she checked it before she bought anything and it made me super curious about the products I had, loved, and bought a million times. It is a really great app because it tells you the ingredients that are in the products and which ingredients are low, medium, and high health concerns. It is amazing how many of these are in products that I use. I was shocked. It is also really great because it also tells you healthier alternatives to the products that do not rank so high in the health category.

There's also a website!

There are a few, good and bad products, I wanted to post about that really surprised me and will definitely affect the way I shop in the future. Here are the products:

Covergirl Lashblast Mascara: This product surprised me because it got a rating of zero for health. Zero??? I've put this on my eyelashes so many times. What makes this so bad?? I looked through the ingredients list and the one ingredient that gets the worst health concern is actually an ingredient that hopefully will be substituted soon with something better. If you go look up this mascara on the app you'll see what I mean. I will wait to repurchase this until that ingredient is taken out.

Monistat Soothing Care Skin Protection Powder-Gel: You might be wondering why I would look this product up but I actually use it as a primer before foundation. Many of the ingredients (almost all) are the same as the Smashbox Photo Finish primer, a primer loved by all gurus and bloggers alike. This product surprised me, 1. because it got a 10 on health, and then 2. because it got a 3.2 for environment and society. The 10 is extremely good. This was the first product I've seen with a 10 rating for anything but the 3.2's are so low. That's horrible! Although those are some pretty low scores the 10 is amazing and it works great as a primer.

Method All Purpose Cleaner Spray in Lavender: I always thought cleaning products were absolutely horrible for the environment and for your health but just about everything Method product I saw got over an 8 rating for everything. That is amazing. We use the all purpose spray at my house and I always loved using it because it never made my head hurt. Now I know why! The hand soaps also got a great rating.

Nars Blush in Orgasm: I didn't think that this product would get any high ratings (I looked up the Urban Decay Naked pallets and they all got horrible scores) but it did get a great rating for environment. It got over an 8 for environment which brings up its overall score so much because the other two scores are nowhere near it. According to the app, the Nars company is ranked in the 25% of all companies due to it's environmental practices. Who knew makeup products could be better for the environment than your face.

Go look up some of your favorite products and see how they rank! It will definitely make you rethink repurchasing some things.

Until tomorrow,

Caroline