Have you ever taken a look at the ingredients on your makeup bottles and packages? Lots of words that you can’t pronounce let alone know the origins of.

I like to know what I’m putting on my skin and especially on my face. Makeup brands are turning the page on using harsh chemicals and leaning towards natural ingredients to create their makeup products.

Our skin loses elasticity as we age, yes this happens to all of us. Also, as we get older, our skin tends to react to certain ingredients it didn’t use to. Often, the makeup that we are applying is contributing to a buildup of toxins on our skin and over time this results in clogged pores and unsightly rashes. Time to change our makeup!

Today, we have more options than ever to choose our makeup wisely. Choosing a natural foundation designed for aging skin is a good idea for women over 50. A natural foundation means that it is free of harmful chemicals, dyes, synthetic fragrances, and preservatives. Oftentimes, makeup that is produced with natural ingredients tends to be cruelty-free, vegan, and packaged with the environment in mind.

What Should You Look for When Purchasing Natural Foundations?

These are some of the words to look for to know that your foundation is natural:

• Natural
• Organic
• Vegan
• No preservatives
• Gluten-free
• No artificial colors
• Talc and paraben-free
• Hypoallergenic
• No silicones
• No Parabens
• Minimal plastic packaging
• Nickel Tested

Juice Beauty Phyto-Pigments Flawless Serum Foundation

This foundation is infused with age-defying serum made with concentrated plant-derived Phyto-Pigments. You can build this foundation up to a full coverage giving you a flawless finish.

This foundation from Juice Beauty has Certified Organic Ingredients to protect humans, animals and the planet. It’s also made with sustainable packaging that includes recyclable glass and FSC paper.

Fruit Pigmented® Tinted Moisturizer

Tinted moisturizers are great for mature skin, and I like to add them in my best foundations lists. This ultra hydrating tinted moisturizer from 100% Pure is made with aloe and cucumber juice and pigmented with cocoa and fruit.

This product provides a light to medium coverage and leaves your skin feeling refreshed with a dewy hydrated look.

BareMinerals BarePro® PerformanceWear Liquid Foundation SPF 20

This creamy liquid foundation from BareMinerals contains bamboo stem extract that creates a naturally matte and soft finish. It also contains papaya enzymes that gently improve skin’s texture both immediately and over time.

With over 35 shades to choose from, you’re sure to find the perfect tint for your skin tone.

Jane Iredale Liquid Minerals® A Foundation

This foundation from Jane Iredale is created with mature skin in mind. It is a perfect blend of hyaluronic acid, squalane, CoQ10, and plant extracts. The little balls are encapsulating liposomes that deliver pigments.

It’s super hydrating and provides light to medium coverage. Cruelty free and vegan.

La Mer The Soft Fluid Long Wear Foundation SPF 20

Adding an SPF to your daily skincare regimen is essential. A great way to do that is to have it included in your foundation.

La Mer offers this long wear foundation that is excellent for mature skin. It’s free of many chemical ingredients and leaves skin soft and dewy looking.

Au Naturale Zero Gravity C2P Foundation

Au Naturale offers this stick foundation that offers blendable and buildable coverage for a smooth flawless finish.

It’s made of Meadowfoam Seed Oil and special ECOCERT blurring pigments that provide full-spectrum color play and all-day color stay due to a soft-focus effect that instantly mattifies and smooths your complexion.

Vapour Soft Focus Foundation

Vapour created this foundation for older women. It leaves a flawless, natural finish. The foundation soothes and calms skin with Frankincense and Myrrh Lotus.

It’s basically a foundation that acts like skincare.

Do you wear natural foundation? Will you try one of the natural foundations for aging skin on our list? Do you have any of your favorite foundations to add to our list? Let us know in the comments below.

My son called me recently to share an observation he’s had at college. While his older professors are wise and erudite, they aren’t necessarily as open to new ideas as some of his younger professors.

He’s onto something. It’s generally accepted that while older people benefit from higher levels of crystalized intelligence, fluid intelligence peaks in our 20s. Stated in layman’s terms, our skills, abilities and knowledge increase as we age, due to our accumulated experience. But our ability to take in new and less familiar information diminishes.

To the extent this is true, I find it deeply troubling in the current cultural moment in which we find ourselves. Because in a world that’s ever more polarized politically, we need to leave our bubbles more than ever.

Here are three ways to expand your worldview as you age:

Challenge Your Biases

In an effort to become equitable and inclusive, a lot of organizations now offer workshops to tackle what’s known as “unconscious bias.” These workshops raise awareness of the snap judgments people make – often about race and gender – which subconsciously affect assessments of talent, character, and more.

To which I say: awesome. But some of our biases aren’t subconscious. According to Pew Research, a large majority of people on both the Left (75%) and the Right (63%) in the United States claim to see their political opponents as “close minded.” And once you go down that path, you will begin making all sorts of assumptions about “the other” that get in the way of mutual understanding.

I myself got a lesson in challenging my own biases when I went to work at an online magazine called Politics Daily. When I started writing there, I just assumed that most – if not all – of the staff would be card-carrying Pro-Choicers like myself. I was wrong. Both of my editors were pro-life, as were many of the columnists there.

It was tempting – especially when my articles on abortion seemed to get extra scrutiny from the editors – to dismiss these individuals as dogmatic and, yes, close-minded. Ultimately, however, their feedback was a blessing.

It forced me to listen to and engage with a diverse set of political views that I didn’t always share. It also forced me to work that much harder to defend my views on things like abortion, rather than taking them for granted.

Now, when I teach persuasive writing, I always suggest to my students that they share their writing with an ideological opponent. It is the very best way to see if you are really inhabiting someone else’s world view. You learn to spot your own knee-jerk suppositions more readily and begin to challenge some of them.

Read Outside Your Comfort Zone

Last year, a friend of mine who’s a good deal more conservative than I on any number of issues gifted me The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukanioff and Jonathan Haidt. The book explores the pronounced shrinking of ideological diversity and debate on American college campuses in recent years.

At the time, I smiled politely and tossed the book into a pile of “to be read eventuallys.” I wasn’t sure I’d ever get to it. Just glancing at the title – which pivots off of Allan Bloom’s famous 1980’s treatise The Closing of the American Mind – I automatically assumed the book would be an ad hominem attack on progressive thought, and hence, not for me.

I was wrong. There’s a good deal of criticism in the book of cancel culture, and the Left catches a bit more heat on this topic from the authors than the Right. But it’s a very well-reasoned and even-handed book about what happens when we cling to our truths and stop listening to one another.

For me, the book underscored why it’s so important to read outside of your ideological comfort zone. It doesn’t have to be a book. It could be a magazine. Or an app that helps you to alter your media diet. The key is to break through your filter bubble.

Widen Your Social Circles

Finally, be sure that you build wider social circles. I live in the UK. The Brexit vote was – and continues to be – one of the most divisive things to happen to this country in years. When the debate first erupted, I just assumed that all Brexiteers were a bunch of wacko nutters who didn’t like immigrants. Then several of my friends told me that they – or their parents – had voted for Brexit and explained why.

Over the years, I’ve come to really value this diversity in political views among my friends. As my cousin, who lives in Colorado, once pointed out to me, “There are real advantages to living in a ‘Purple state.’ It forces you to be more tolerant.”

And tolerance is exactly what we need right now. We will not get there by adopting an us vs. them mentality or cancelling one another. Rather, as Arianna Huffington put it beautifully in a recent blog post, “The only way to allow for growth collectively is to allow for growth individually.”

What will you do to move beyond your biases? Are you aware which biases hold you down and keep you from growth? Do you think biases cause the division in our society? Can we be more tolerant instead?

Tracy Tutor’s Beige Fur Bag on Instagram

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When you live in sunny SoCal at this time of year I guess the only fur you wear is in bag form. At least that was the case for Tracy Tutor on her IG the other day. Something else you can wear is a fab silk blazer and fun cargo pants, but hey you can wear it all anywhere anytime honestly. Especially because it’s been made sooo easy with Style Stealers below.

Sincerely Stylish,

Jess

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Billie Eilish does things her own way. When it comes to her career, she’s way more about the surprises than the constant social media teases. It’s a strategy that has worked for her and today, she did it again, surprising fans with the announcement of Billie Eilish Fragrances and its first launch. The fragrance is called Eilish and it comes out this November, just in time for holiday gift-giving.

“This is a scent that I’ve been chasing for years and years,” Eilish wrote on Instagram. This is my favorite smell in the WORLD. Fragrance has always been such an enormous part of my life and existence since I can remember, and it was a dream to create this scent and bring my ideas to life. This has been one of the most exciting things I’ve ever done.”

Hew new fragrance line was created with Parlux Fragrances, Ltd, which issued a press release stating that Eilish is involved in all aspects of creation, “from the creative vision, to the bottle design, the packaging, the campaign, and of course, the scent itself.”

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Speaking of scent, the vegan and cruelty-free fragrance is said to be warm and cozy with opening notes of sugared petals, accented by juicy mandarin and red berries. The heart of the fragrance features soft spices, rich cocoa, and creamy vanilla. There are base notes of warm musks, tonka bean, and sleek woods. The sleek bottle was inspired by the singer’s favorite parts of the body: the chest, neck and collarbone.

“I wanted it to feel like a warm embrace,” Eilish said in a statment. “Like what it feels like to feel your blood rushing through you. It’s a scent that I’ve been chasing for years and years and years. It’s my favorite smell in the world.”

Yup, I need to get this on my body STAT. Luckily, we can all grab it this November on billieeilishfragrances.com.

Billie Eilish does things her own way. When it comes to her career, she’s way more about the surprises than the constant social media teases. It’s a strategy that has worked for her and today, she did it again, surprising fans with the announcement of Billie Eilish Fragrances and its first launch. The fragrance is called Eilish and it comes out this November, just in time for holiday gift-giving.

“This is a scent that I’ve been chasing for years and years,” Eilish wrote on Instagram. This is my favorite smell in the WORLD. Fragrance has always been such an enormous part of my life and existence since I can remember, and it was a dream to create this scent and bring my ideas to life. This has been one of the most exciting things I’ve ever done.”

Hew new fragrance line was created with Parlux Fragrances, Ltd, which issued a press release stating that Eilish is involved in all aspects of creation, “from the creative vision, to the bottle design, the packaging, the campaign, and of course, the scent itself.”

Our mission at STYLECASTER is to bring style to the people, and we only feature products we think you’ll love as much as we do. Please note that if you purchase something by clicking on a link within this story, we may receive a small commission of the sale.

Source: Instagram

Speaking of scent, the vegan and cruelty-free fragrance is said to be warm and cozy with opening notes of sugared petals, accented by juicy mandarin and red berries. The heart of the fragrance features soft spices, rich cocoa, and creamy vanilla. There are base notes of warm musks, tonka bean, and sleek woods. The sleek bottle was inspired by the singer’s favorite parts of the body: the chest, neck and collarbone.

“I wanted it to feel like a warm embrace,” Eilish said in a statment. “Like what it feels like to feel your blood rushing through you. It’s a scent that I’ve been chasing for years and years and years. It’s my favorite smell in the world.”

Yup, I need to get this on my body STAT. Luckily, we can all grab it this November on billieeilishfragrances.com.