Buyer Beware: Pure Luxe Followup

Although I have not heard back from them I visited the Pure Luxe site today.

I am happy to report that the ingredients list now states that the Blacklight and Glow in the Dark collections are not FDA approved for eyes.

The product is now listed under "Specialty Color Items" instead of being designated for eyes and contains the following disclaimer:

Can be used on face and body.  Add to hair gel for a bright color strip.
See ingredients for exclusions. 

While I applaud these changes it should be noted that there is nothing on the site to alert customers who have previously purchased the product that they should discontinue use around the eye area. I will be following up with PureLuxe in an effort to determine whether they have notified their customers or not.

Buyer Beware: Pure Luxe

I have debated this post as it's not related to GlitterSniffer. I seriously thought about it for about an hour, weighing whether or not I wanted to post this and open up another can of worms. In the end I realized I just could not let this go because it's the same issue. 


I was doing some research this evening and I happened upon a site selling blacklight and glow in the dark pigments. The ingredient list on the PureLuxe site says, depending on color, they may contain Orange 5, Polyester-3, Red 28, yellow 7, Red 22, yellow 11. Many of these are not approved for eye use.

I have screenshots of both the ingredient list and the product. I used this list from the FDA for research. At this point I am only uploading the shot of the ingredient list as this seller has a history of threatened litigiousness in terms of photos of PL products being used when they are not portrayed in a flattering light.


I have used the contact form on the site to request immediate removal of the products. I also informed them that I would be notifying the FDA if they were not removed. I was so shocked to find these I wasn't thinking it through and forgot to request that they contact everyone they sold to in order to inform them of their unsafe nature. I will accompany that with a followup.

My cropping skills could use some work.

I know, I know-Who died and made me guardian of the Mineral Makeup Gate? Well, if there is one thing I've learned from this GlitterSniffer debacle it's that I cannot look the other way. I refuse, as a person who cares about other people, to allow something as widespread, destructive, and pervasive as what happened with GS to happen again.

1/1/11 ETA: Please see the followup for the resolution here.