When mineral-based makeup appeared on the scene about a decade ago, plastic surgeons rejoiced. At last! Makeup that supports our efforts to improve skin and enhance our patients' beauty.

Part of Nature's Plan
What's so great about mineral makeup? In a word, minerals!

Like vitamins, they're part of nature's plan for optimum health. Mineral makeup feeds the skin, protects it, and continues the work we doctors start with our lasers, light technology, peels and topical creams.

Nature's Medicine
Mineral makeup is so healthy that dermatologists use it as medicine. They prescribe it to patients with acne, rosacea and other skin conditions.

Enlightened plastic surgeons recommend it to patients who have had skin resurfacing procedures. Its gentle, soothing, anti-inflammatory qualities make it the perfect post-procedure cover-up. It's so effective it can be applied as camouflage during the post-op recovery period.

How Can Makeup Improve Skin?

1. Ingredients.
   Our bodies hunger for naturally-occurring substances of all kinds, including vitamins, minerals and pure water. As part of nature's system for helping skin cells thrive and replenish themselves, minerals interact with cells in a variety of ways. Anti-oxidant protection is just one of the benefits of this molecular activity.
   
   
2. How they're structured.
   Glo Minerals are micro-pulverized to form flat crystals. These crystals overlap each other on the skin, creating a porous filter that allows the skin to breathe. This non-comedogenic structure keeps pores free of the oils and irritants that result in compromised skin.
   
   
3. What it doesn't contain.
   Mineral-Glo makeup contains none of the damaging impurities found in conventional makeup:
   • Perfume
   • Coal-tar
   • Chemical dyes
   • Alcohol
   • Fillers
   • Preservatives

How Does Mineral Makeup Manage to Last So Long?
Glo Minerals cosmetics use no fillers such as talc, a cheap ingredient found in conventional makeup. (Manufacturers use fillers like talc to dilute their products and lower their need for expensive pigments.) Pure pigment without fillers is naturally longer-lasting. The pigment adheres to the skin and doesn't degrade like a filler.

Pigments need only one quick application to provide all-day coverage that doesn't fade, crease or smear.

Put It On, Stop Worrying
Says our esthetician, "People who hold jobs where they're required to work long hours without breaks get completely hooked on Glo Minerals. They can't believe how long they can go without having to 'refresh' their makeup. It's such a relief to them to quit worrying about that washed-out look that happens after a few hours of wearing regular makeup."

How Does Mineral Makeup Give You A "Glow"?
The crystalline structure of Glo Minerals's pulverized face powders and eye shadows reflects light instead of absorbing it. The result is flawless, opaque coverage that makes you look as though you radiate from within.

In addition, foundations that contain no oils won't settle in facial creases. This eliminates the lined, hard look you often see in older faces.

Older Patients Are Most Enthusiastic
Our older patients immediately 'get' what Glo Minerals is all about. They're more sensitized to the 'glow' factor because they have the least amount of natural glow left. When they see what Glo Minerals does to restore it, they're hooked.

Sun Protection
Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide, two of the main ingredients in Glo Minerals products, are used in the best sunscreens and sun blocks. These minerals give instant, true broad-spectrum, chemical-free sun protection. They are also very water resistant. (Zinc Oxide is the ingredient in that white stuff lifeguards used to slather on their noses.)

Minimum allergy risk - Glo Minerals products contain no sensitizers like perfume or chemical dyes and preservatives. In fact, zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are anti-inflammatories and help calm the skin.

Coverage - Because minerals are concentrated pigment, they give complete coverage and can be used effectively to camouflage large or small distractions. Apply with a brush or a sponge for coverage that it would normally take three products to achieve. The result should look sheer and luminescent and feel weightless.

Adhere - Minerals naturally adhere to the skin until they are removed with cleanser.

Anti-inflammatory - Glo Minerals bases have anti-inflammatory properties and are especially helpful for acne and rosacea-prone skins.

Inert - The loose minerals are inert and cannot support bacteria.

Camouflage Makeup
Even though mineral makeup is optimal for everyday use, with layering it can also be used as a powerful camouflage makeup to cover up acne, scars, redness, skin discoloration and tattoos. Using bases, powders and cover-ups along with specially designed mineral makeup brushes, you can achieve flawless coverage that lasts all day.

Colors for Every Skin Tone
Minerals are available in so many colors that there's one for every complexion, no matter what the ethnicity. Why not try a Glo-Minerals foundation? See the difference. We know you'll come back to experience the full line of Glo-Minerals products.