How Axiology's Zero-Waste Makeup Crayons Are Made
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Axiology makes beauty products that are vegan, clean, and cruelty-free. Its line consists of lipsticks, crayons, and zero-waste Lip-to-Lid Balmies. The brand makes its products in Bend, Oregon, with ingredients and practices that don’t cause harm to people, animals, or the planet. All of its products contain no more than 10 ingredients, and the brand has substituted some ingredients like beeswax and palm oil with more sustainable options like sunflower wax and plum oil.
For its color pigments, Axiology uses mostly earth-derived pigments like iron oxides and micas that are child-labor-free. The Lip-to-Lid Balmies are all individually wrapped in recycled paper and packaged in boxes that are made from 100% recycled paper waste. These boxes are sourced from a handmade-paper company in Bali that was created by women to help reduce the amount of waste on the island. The Balmies can be used on the eyes, cheeks, and lips, and the packaging can be recycled once the product is finished.
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How Axiology's Zero-Waste Makeup Crayons Are Made
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Lipstick cases work perfectly, I have had no trouble having this product in my handbag, and I lived in South East Asia where it was always hot. There are so many different ways to store this product, even using an old lipstick, or lip balm container or a plastic tooth pick tube. Eco friendly and stainablity also relys on us as consumers thinking outside the box on what we already have and continue and store the use of these products.
Exactly! Totally agree with this comment. I think people are too comfortable
@@Mrmuffinlol Bro, if Im going to pay full price for a lipstick, it better have a working tube 😂
@@faithtrout1181 Yes these are way more expensive than I thought. Probably because they do everything by hand lol
Reduce, reuse, recycle!
@@famshars2389 but the most effective and forgotten R is REFUSE! Nothing's more environmentally friendly than just not buying the thing
Perhaps make a bamboo type tube with a slider and use the lip crayons as refills, so every time you are finished you just wash the tube and reuse it.
You can't give these ideas out for free!
@@Michelle-xx5ye I also tought of that, it is better to keep the idea for your start up.
@@Michelle-xx5ye i donno dude kinda the point of the Internet......
It's a good idea, @GLC Nornes but it would bring up the cost of the lipstick considerably. Adding anything between 5 to 8 dollars to carve a bamboo tube into a stick with a slider like mechanism. Which would be around 42%-64% of the cost of their lipstick. While it is not unheard of to spend that proportion of cost towards packaging, I don't think they would be able to call it a sustainable business. Good thinking though, my friend.
@@nomaddaisy8343 Good thinking, but since you mentioned that, how about they sell the refillable cases separately, for those who want them. This allows them to gauge the interest (ie-orders) first, to see who will buy, therefore enabling them to not over manufacture.
Before this video, I had never even heard of the brand, Axiology. Learn something new every day. Lol ☺ It looks cool. Will I ever try it? I'm not sure.
It is just a little, privat brand sooo...
This is perfect. It would be nice if you would sell some reusable cases to hold individual or even double or triple tubes so people could carry these in their purse. The cases could be like fancy pull cases, but for lipsticks and could be made of any number of renewable resources.
Wow. I love that she gets her Mica from places that don't use children to dig it up. I also love that the paper is all recycled paper that they picked up and the products are made from 10 to 9 natural ingredients.....that is amazing. I wanna try it lol
Well more than likely that's not entirely true if she's buying Mica at all then more than likely she is getting some from families and children and even though that sounds horrible that children would even work the truth of the matter is when they're working like this they have plenty of food their government won't step up and help their people and a lot of their people have starved to death even though I hate child labor the truth of the matter is they need food to survive and the government might say they're not going to let children work like this anymore but that's not true they're still not stepping up and making sure all of these families have food there were many of times growing up that we didn't have any food and it's very painful to starve I would rather these kids work then go through that like I said though I'm completely against it but at the same time at least they're getting food...
10 ingredients without all the different pigments
Love seeing more zero waste beauty!
Okay, I love the concept of no waste products. It has natural ingredients and cruelty free. But in this case, lipstick is exposed to the environment and not portable. Further research needs to be done for packaging. I wouldn't buy this for packaging as I use them very occassionally and them being exposed and would have to clean the surfaces where they are kept.
Apparently you are supposed to keep them in the red box they come in. Which sounds mildly inconvenient. They do have a lipstick line that comes with actual tubes that you can mail back to the company for recycling. I wish they had something similar for the balmies, and treat the ones in the paper tubes as a refill or something like that
@@elbowsbuns1896 Wow that's a great idea, refill for lipsticks👌👏👏
@@neethuraju2355 from what I remember lush has lipstick refills
Hmm, goods point. I would think this is a good product for someone who would use this makeup daily, and as a part of their lips, cheeks, and eyes routine
I think it would be good if the customer put the lipstick in old lipstick case so it is more like a lipstick refill than no case lipstick at all
Yes I have tried these.they are available at at Sephora
Are they good?
"Boiled and soaked overnight without using chemicals"
H2O: am I a joke to you?
People don't know what chemicals are. Lol
All those oils probably go rancid in a few weeks without keeping it in the fridge.
It's good in theory, but things that go on your lips should never go onto your eyelids next. Eyes and the skin around it are very prone to infection.
Unless you dont apply the product direct to the face but onto a clean finger or makeup brush first
Eye products should be water soluble. Oils travel and can get into the eyes causing infection.
2:10 "soaked overnight... Without using bleach or other chemicals"
You know water is a chemical, right?
They imply harmful or questionable chemicals (like bleach)...
Technically its a compound made of basic elements, if you need to be pedantic and miss the whole point of the process avoiding toxicity. 😏
Maybe I just don't understand the incentricities and price point of how these are made, but $14 a piece for these little lipsticks with absolutely no packaging other than paper seems a little too steep for me. But hey, I guess that's just the price of sustainability
You're paying for the labor that goes into processing these by hand. If they were able to scale-up and automate, the price would drop considerably. But that would sort of defeat the purpose.
These are only $14? Damn I gotta buy some
I'm always fascinated by people who have an idea and take that big step to manufacturer.... I hope to have guts like that one day...... Not that I would know where to begin!
Knowing all the hard work.. I’m assuming it will be pricey but I’m glad they are reusing/recycling🌎
I think this is a new brand (never heard of them) but if they make more $$ in future.. Will they use machines👀
Sorry that is usually what happens
Ikr, alot of products that has been more popular they became more cheap because its not man made anymore
The balmies are $14 each, but they have a code on their site for 30% off
@@sonnecs yess!
@@elbowsbuns1896 yeah it’s close to Black Friday tho, probably be because of that
These are actually cheaper than many “high end” brands of lipstick. I love the balmie I have!!
Seems too oily for the eyes
You can use setting powder on your eyes ig ?
Love this. I really wish her beauty brand the best of luck 🙏
It's good to care for thr environment but how about consumer's health because for sure that lipstick won't be used once, it's gonna stay for months without protection and used for multiple times it will collect bacteria fungi hair.. Etc it's not practical at all u should develop ur products further more also i can tell they have more of waxy consistency and not very pigmented
I definitely like the idea, but the products are priced way too high for me, personally. The crayons don't seem very smooth either.
More good news that this company could use, synthetic mica has come a long way and still is growing! So they could switch the available colors to non-mined! (Not all shades are synth yet, but lots of good ones are)
They can say what ever they want honestly
You cannot be sure Mica was not mined without child labor.
I like the ecology in this... I just hope it dosent cost too much
There's a 30% off code on their most recent Instagram post.
@@elbowsbuns1896 oh thank you!
Mining is still bad for the environmental thooo, kinda seems like greenwashing to me. Natural mica is still important but a company that claims to be eco friendly must use as much synthetic mica as possible.
I like that they have pink labcoats.
I love thier name 💜
Axiology : value and worth👍
Defines what they make🤗
Whoa! Definitely looking into supporting this business :)
When you're allergic to castor oil.... RIP
I have an Axiology cinnamon and champagne duo, and just keep them in their box!
Well...Very interesting. As a male that does not wear makeup, I think this is really clever and a great idea. I don't think I've ever said that about a cosmetic product before.
What a fantastic change from the gimmicky nonsense you normally see being peddled in the cosmetics markets!
There are many of us who's faces can not take all those oils without having bad breakouts. I really think companies should consider how facial skin actually reacts to oils. Once I got rid of oil based products, I was able to work on clearing up. If you keep breaking out, consider the fact that it may be due to oil based products. I do like the zero waste aspect of this make-up though.
Why didn't you link her products?
this is the bright future of make-up
Omg! This is sooo cool. How can I order??
fantastic!!!!
..mika as in the glittery thing? That is extracted from underground by kids...!?
Instead of pouring it on/in tube trays and having all that excess afterwards...
Why not just use a large syringe / pipette to inject the correct amount in!?!
That would be better than having all that excess to scrape off & reheat!
Those pipettes would need to be made of either stainless steel, which obviously couldn't happen... or silicone. Ever tried cleaning melted wax from silicone?
Work efficient zero waste ..
Neat. I'll check them out!
Ingredients are just amazing .....
So amazing it's almost unbelievable.
Mica!!! Cool 😂😂😂
I will have some of them..
I don’t know if they have the manpower to handle that much distribution, but they should sell their products at Lush.
Imagine how much better for the earth it would be if this company didn't exist at all. It's not like everyone is going to go out and replace their regular makeup with this stuff. This is just adding to the problem with another greenwashed product. Delivered right to your door with all the carbon emissions of shipping! If you want to save the planet, stop buying so much crap.
👍👍👍👍👍
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Got so excited until they said Neem oil.😭 Dang allergies.
Finallyyyyyyyyy
I love the sentiment but that pigment looks like hot garbage... However, every little bit counts and it's great they're doing their part ❤
😃
Hi
but isn't mining is still harming the planet? /gen
Yup!
Everything is harming the planet bozo.
Metal, plastic, recycled paper, make up is still pretty.
The point of makeup is to improve your look. This makes her look like a 4 year old did her makeup.
If you want to be very eco friendly, lip stick/make up isn't a necessity...... Although I guess we could consider the economy as a whole: people need jobs to buy shelter, food, medicine and other necessities.
Lots of expensive hand labor there… can’t scale that. I’m out
Lol it's clown makeup
First
Make up isn't beautiful. Only healthy is. I hope this saves what is left of your life.
That’s great Ericka but are you not still profiting off of these women with low pay for all their labor?
Who said these women are paid low? They're not daily wage labourers working for a dustbag contractor. Didn't you see the video? They've formed their own independent work group and divide the money from the orders placed with them amongst themselves.
@@chimchimsjamkookies4242 sweetie, take a Xanax
@@user-lw9ut2ms6m that's the best comeback u could give? Lol😂
@@rewa6946 it wasn’t a comeback just advice from one TH-camr to another 🙂
@@user-lw9ut2ms6m seems unsolicited 🤷🏻♀️
But then again most of the things people say, are👀...
I love this product and I dont agree with the complaints on packaging. We can afford to be slightly inconvenienced for the sake of a better future.
You could just stop wearing makeup for a better future.
@@pcbassoon3892 Makeup is HARDLY the biggest environmental offender.
Companies like this one are still GOOD, and we should support them, but if everyone stopped wearing makeup, it would hardly make a dent on climate change. Axiology is at least also working with a company that is actively cleaning the planet to make their products.
@@marianmacfarland8701 really? People who harvest pigments in mines in India and Africa, paid peanuts, abused and easily replaced by employers; child labour, petrol, carbon imprint when different ingredients travel from all over the world into a factory that uses machinery that uses heat to melt ingredients and produces more carbon dioxide than a person through their entire life and plastic waste from packaging. Yeah, if we stopped using make up, it will not change anything 🤣 Were you born an hour ago? Beauty is the biggest industry in the world, the biggest pollutant and the biggest worker abusing industry in the world. For some reason fair trade coffee is a thing, but not fair trade make up. Think about it when you buy your eyeshadow pallet for £2. Because there maybe children who have died in mines so you can wear glitter on your eyes. 🤣 FH!
@@alwayshangrygirl463 where are you getting £2 eyeshadow pallets because the ones I have are £60 or more.
@@cllk115colourpop has $5 eyeshadows 😊
Wow. As soon as my makeup runs out, and I have some more income, I will be purchasing from this company. This is amazing, and I hope more people look into this. Not only is it incredible craftsmanship but ingenuity too. And there is a cool girl minimal aspect to it as well 💕 fantastic
I know you're saying there wasn't any child labor in this but you're talkin about Bali and the truth is where you're getting your source could definitely still be child labor because these families Farm them so that their children can eat yes I'm against child labor but I'm also a realist and realize in these very poor countries that with these kids working like this they're actually able to feed themselves and have food so they definitely need to continue doing this the country needs to step up and make sure these children aren't going to starve but they're still not doing it I'm not against children doing this for their own food at all so whether you agree with me or not at least these kids aren't going hungry growing up there were many of times that we didn't have any food and it's really painful to starve so Please Don't Judge these families too harshly they really don't know any difference and I do completely understand and I guess I'm pretty much okay with them doing what they're doing because at least they're getting to eat and honestly that's all that matters if their countries not going to step up then the kids have to and that's really messed up...
Exactly!!!!!! I hate how they just ended the whole thing by saying they use a company that doesn't use child labour, as if companies don't lie to us. Lol. They should stop using mica if they want to be planet loving or whatever
@@tanie3543 Yeah they glossed over that pretty fast they really didn't want to talk about it you could tell let's just fly by that and tell them we're such a great company 😂 when you can't believe any of that just because almost all Mica that use comes from child labor I don't have a problem with it because it feeds these children but don't lie about it that's the difference people put it down all of the time and I don't like it either but at least these kids are eating and without this they wouldn't be so if it feeds them who are we to say they shouldn't do it?
I love that Axiology isn't just looking at sustainability through the lens of recyclable packaging, which many other low-waste companies are doing. Sustainability is about the ethics of a product from cradle to grave. This includes the mining of raw ingredients, production processing, fair worker treatment, and the ability for end-users to store the product in something we all have: an old lipstick case. Please give us more videos like this, so I can learn about similar companies!
while i like the concept of them and the fact that you can use every bit of it, it does seem like it might be a difficult to carry in your purse or makeup bag unless you kept it in that individual box. it might be nice if they had lids and some type of covering that is removable on the bottom, so they can travel better.
Maybe a reusable lipstick tube or makeup tin would suffice for this. I am thinking back to the old roll up lipstick cases with the mirrors as well.
@@ConfusedLux yeah, honestly an old lip balm jar would probably do the trick, or an Altoid tin 🤷🏻♀️😌
It also seemed like it might be a little bit tough to get it to spread easily on your lips it seemed a little bit dry and that's not good I want it to be really creamy..
For those who are wondering about the packaging and portability, they do have the lipstick colors in regular packaging that you can throw in your purse and to go! 😃 they are are like $20 and the balmies are like $28 for three.
If you really want to you could probably find a empty lipstick tube from your makeup bag and then use that for the product. You'd just have to wash it first and get rid of the residues from the old lipstick first.
Real MVP for sharing this info, because it's what I was wondering about.
Not bad.
Not anymore, they ditched everything. Only paper and cardboard from now on. Will not be buying those products, I hate the new packaging.
I like this! Good coverage Beauty Insider!
What an amazing concept! 😍 As a lover of all things cruelty free, I'm always on the look-out for great cruelty free and vegan makeup options. And this even steps it up a big notch: I love how Axiology even thought of making everything environment- and human-friendly 🙌. The brand ideology of Axiology and seeing the production and hearing all the thought that went into the lipbalms really amazes me. Well done 👏
Thank you for taking a brave stance against the exploitation of honey bees.
I would prefer lab synthesised compounds for minerals. Zero heavy metal contaminants if you're not taking metal oxides etc. out of the ground ☺️
It looks like they take multiple purification steps while processing the raw ingredients. It's simple chemistry for a makeup development scientist.
@@alyssahayes268 I'm doing a master's degree in chemistry. It's virtually impossible to have a 100% pure substance, there will always be some level of contamination (in synthesised or mined compounds). By synthesis you can minimise contamination and ensure that any contaminants will be safer than arsenic or led, etc. 🙂
@@dave9401 then as a chemist, you would know that it's all about dose. No substance is pure, but 2 solutions with a similarly negligible concentration of contaminants are effectively the same, health-wise (where "negligible" is being determined by comparison to biological effective dose safety limits).
However, an additional potential pro of switching to synthetic raw ingredients is that it might make the end-product cheaper in the long run. But a con might be that they'd lose the marketing tactic of "natural ingredients", which greenwashed consumers tend to love, even if synthetic is oftentimes more sustainable.
I have a minor in chemistry and B.S. in radiological engineering, where understanding relative biological effective dose is very important.
@@alyssahayes268 100% agree with you on the green washing.
I'm sure you'll understand that an issue with contaminants in cosmetics is repeated dose and inhilation of powders. You must be aware of talc and its contamination by asbestos.
Determining whether a contaminant is in a negligible amount is only possible by testing each batch of product (most companies don't do this) and even then it isn't a guarantee.
Natural minerals and their contaminants are a safety concern where as synthesised minerals aren't (mostly true as nanoparticles are a whole different kettle of fish)
@@dave9401 True, we don't know how thorough the quality testing is, so even if a large batch is passes QC, that doesn't necessarily mean that every single lip crayon is compliant.
This feels like an infection waiting to happen
woah! that looks cool! the packaging looks so nice.....better than spending money on luxury brands! 🔥
I love these! I need makeup that takes almost no time to apply and still looks amazing. Their trios are my daily go to.
This is pretty cool! I think if we just didn't wear makeup, it would help a lot though with being completely non-waste in this field.
With so many oils and 0 preservatives this probably goes off super fast. Cool idea I love the multi use but not for me probably, I wouldn't use it up in time.
Sounds like the start of something great. The packaging could use some improvement though in terms if size. Not very convenient to have these little boxes everywhere. Maybe some sort of paper tube like native does for the deodorants. Or some kinda recycled plastic tubes or something
From what I hear, they have recyclable lipsticks in tubes as well.
@@teremertz made from 50% recycled plastic
Wow. You know she is making it not just for profit but all around greatness.
Do NOT draw over your eyelids like that, it pulls on your skin and that's what gives you eye wrinkles and sagging.
Wow that's really great! Love that they are using the paper waste and reusing it once it's cleaned for wrapping.
Ooof that arm swatch. Looks like they are just scraping away.
Get one of every color and put em in a crayon box
The packaging needs work tho.
Outstanding concept simply love it
Good idea, in theory .. but the ad shows the models having to rub really hard over and over, just for the end result to look sort of cheap, honestly. I want to buy it, for the eco friendly bit, but probably won't because of the greasy dollar tree look.
No doubt somebody somewhere will try and go to the far end of a fart to try and say why this company isn't green
I love how they use good for the skin ingredients.
I'm a guy, and not into make up, but this is super awesome!
How does that not make you break out if you put it on your cheeks or eyes?
I am so pissed off about Axiology ditching their fabulous golden lipstick and crayon packaging. Do we really have to sacrifice everything in the name of friggin climate change and woke politics? The original Axiology lipsticks and crayons looked absolutely gorgeous, but the new packaging looks like one is using the cheapest lipstick for teenagers. In cardboard that does not protect the product from moisture and other environmental influences. Highly unhygienic. Yuck. Also, such wide multi-sticks are incredibly hard to use on thinner lips, it is impossible to achieve precise application without a brush. Who takes a brush with them when they leave home? I don't, I don't even use a lip brush at home. Will not be purchasing these, even though I have loved some of their lipsticks and crayons for years.
I have a feeling Axiology are taking the wrong turn with this reformulation of everything just as Vapour Beauty did - Vapour is closing at the end of December for good. I hated their rebranding and reformulation of all products, they have ruined everything (their Siren lipsticks were my favourite lipsticks ever) and obviously most of their original customers felt the same.
The lipsticks that I've bought in the past, that contain castor oil, stink so much after being exposed to air. I've had several tubes that I absolutely loved the colors of, were ruined because I couldn't get past that smell. After a day, the castor smell was so heavy. After two days I had to throw it away. I love this idea tho, if it doesn't get that certain odor.
Environmental friendly but yet your using non environmentally friendly gloves for the simple task as packaging
I'm still not sure about them just brushing off the use of mica. We know how much companies can lie and I really don't trust them not to use child labour. Mica mines have small opening where adults can't even fit, so children are used mercilessly.
Fantastic. If I ever have a girlfriend I would be happy to purchase this products.
Great idea with 0 waste but the pigment looks terrible and they are tiny so it wouldn't last long considering how much they are using to get decent coverage.
Too bad I have bad allergic reactions to castor oil and vitamin e.
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This product is too expensive for Balinese
They'll be successful
Love the pink 💞💞
id pay for that ngl
How very nice.
It's unfortunate though that the process of recycling, once at a garbage plant, take too much time and money that they just don't really do it. Research it. I heard it on a Reply All, or This AMERICAN life Podscast and was weary, so I researched it from my universities databases available to me (ebsco, jstor). It's true and really sad. So even if you, at home recycle every product completely correctly (that's the problem is most people don't) they still mix with a garbage truck of people whom don't and thus they just go to land fills. Even the most tree hugging earth aware groups still agree we aren't going to be running out of landfill space anytime soon, at all. But still... Sad.
Love this! 💕