For Beauty Products, Natural Isn’t Always Better

Many people believe that natural ingredients are always preferable in beauty products. Natural must mean better, right?

But what if that’s not entirely true: Those natural essential oils you love in your skincare? More than 90% of a plant is typically discarded during the oil extraction process, with the remains left to decompose in landfills where they emit carbon dioxide and methane. That perfume with a whiff of rose? It takes 250,000 petals to create five milliliters of rose oil. The eye-catching red lipstick?