Hello people. As a gentleman, I do not enter the Ezrat Nashim threads unless I feel it is l’toeles harabim. I promise I did not look at anything but the titles, and went straight to the bottom to post. This is my makeup tip: use it at your own risk. I know that I am arguing against human nature, and that makeup use was normative in the time of the Mishna. The issue is the provenance of the raw material. I clean drains for a living, and in my long career, I dealt with many commercial systems. In the food manufacture industry in general, nothing thrown away and some use is found for all wastes. In commercial food, the drains are protected from grease by grease traps, tanks that accumulate the oils and fats, and separate them from the waste flow. These traps must be and emptied every so often, and what comes out of them is the most putrid and noxious stuff on the planet. It is a regulated waste,and it cannot be landfilled or otherwise discarded. The answer to this problem is the cosmetics industry which cooks, sanitizes and resells it as your favorite makeup. In the NY metro area the big green pumper trucks that suck out the big operations end their route at the Revlon intake plant in NJ.
Now, tachlis: If you are the type to avoid food stuff that had hundreds of technical changes made to it, or if you avoid putting things into your body because they have too long an ingredient list, then you should extend this care to what you put on your exterior. Skin,and certainly skin with high vascular and lymph traffic, absorbs things. Blessings for long and healthy life