As I've been thinking about how I want to make little changes to this blog so that I'm more personally satisfied with what I'm putting out, I've really felt inclined to write more about my feelings on the state of the beauty community and the beauty industry. Smatterings of these things may have popped up in blog posts before, but I really felt like since this is my space and these are things that I feel pretty strongly about they were worth writing down and sharing here. I have a feeling this will end up being a bit of a series here on the blog, but to start with I wanted to really dig into something that has been niggling at me for a while now.

I feel like more and more, with the rise of "clean" beauty we've seen a really firm binary being cemented and accepted and it's been really bothering me. The problem with binary thinking on pretty much anything is that it obliterates nuance and context and boils everything down to a basic, easy-to-understand but often incomplete or even incorrect picture of what's going on. When it comes to the question of Natural Ingredients vs. Synthetic or Manmade Ingredients, I genuinely believe there's no answer to the question of which is better because ultimately we're asking the wrong questions.

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