I’d like to introduce myself and my company to you…I am Chelle Barnett, the owner and mixologist behind Mineralicious! The company is actually a by-product of my own search for a makeup that would be good to my face and not make my skin conditions worse. I have suffered from rosacea and acne all of my life and traditional commercial cosmetics would really do a number on my face! While they are hardly life threatening conditions, the redness and breakouts were horrible for my self esteem. For years I tried every thing I could find to try to hide the redness.. Commercial makeup formulations did little to mask the redness, and sometimes made it worse.
After researching mineral makeup and its ingredients, I decided to formulate my own after trying a few brands that made my face itch. As I began formulating with the ingredients found in most popular mineral makeup brands, I discovered that the itching was caused by bismuth oxychloride, which is why you will find none of that in my makeup. Cornstarch, talc, parabens and carmine are also ingredients you won’t find in my ingredients listing….not necessarily because those ingredients are bad, some of them didn’t give the ‘feel’ that I wanted and some purely for personal reasons (carmine).
After months of formulating and experimenting to see what ingredients worked together best, the Mineralicious! brand was born and went into the testing phase. After making it through my own facial testing, it was released to my tester team, who gave it a run for many months. The final result is now sold on the Mineralicious! Makeup website, which debuted on August 1st, 2008.
Even though the company is experiencing huge growth, you will find that all of our products are made in house by me…none of it is purchased wholesale and repackaged. I have extremely high standards of quality and I want to know exactly what is in every product we sell. Making it all myself gives another advantage as well…since I do make everything, I offer a Custom Color Match service for all of our customers & can blend up the perfect match to whatever color you need! I invite you to give our products a try and see what makes Mineralicious! different!
