Pregnancy safe beauty products can be super difficult and confusing. I have an entire guide devoted to what products are safe to use while pregnant including information on what ingredients to avoid while pregnant and a huge list of pregnancy safe skincare products.
Here you’ll find pregnancy safe products from Activist Skincare as of 9/24/2024. If it is not safe, I’ll tell you why. All of the products meet my pregnancy safe criteria. Note I will link to every product directly to avoid confusion. You’ll know exactly which product I mean.
Pregnancy and Nursing Safe Products from Activist Skincare
• Botanical Cleansing Oil
• Deep Moisture Cleansing Balm
• Precious Oils Active Infusion
• Sea to Skin Cleansing Gel
• SPF 30 Tinted Zinc Mineral Sunscreen Cream
• SPF 30 Tinted Zinc Mineral Sunscreen Stick
Not Safe for Pregnancy, Ok for Nursing
• Active Hydration Vitamin C+ Antioxidant Serum: Salicylate
• Calming Force Clear Skin Serum: Licorice Root, Salicylic Acid
• Healing Water Toning Mist: Licorice Root, Salicylate
Not Safe for Pregnancy or Nursing
• None
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Hi, I’m the founder of Activist Skincare. Thank you for this article! In the three products mentioned above, salicylic acid is used at a 0.75% concentration in Calming Force Clear Skin Serum, sodium salicylate is used at a 0.5% concentration in Active Hydration Vitamin C+ Antioxidant Serum, and licorice root extract is used at 0.3% in Healing Water Toning Mist and 1% in Calming Force Clear Skin Serum. I hope this additional info may be helpful to someone 🙂
This discussion will be helpful for my readers: But what about this % of an ingredient?
Hello,
I have been using the Activist SPF 30 Tinted Zinc Mineral Sunscreen Cream you recommend above as pregnancy safe. After scanning through the ingredients I am a bit nervous that it contains manuka oil. When researching it says that manuka oil can possibly cause birth defects/preeclampsia. Please advise! Thank you so much! 🙂
All ingredients: Organic Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Organic Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Organic Helianthus annuus (Sunflower) Oil, Wildcrafted Euphorbia Cerifera (Calendilla) Wax, Organic Calophyllum Inophyllum (Tamanu) Oil, Organic Argania Spinosa (Argan) Oil, Silica, Wildcrafted Theobroma Grandiflorum (Cupuacu) Seed Butter, Wildcrafted Mauritia Flexuosa (Buriti) Fruit Oil, Organic Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Rubus Idaeus (Red Raspberry) Seed Oil, Organic Beeswax, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Iron Oxides, Organic Fair Trade Vanilla Planifolia (Vanilla) Fruit Extract, Propolis, Plankton Extract, Mica, Wildcrafted Leptospermum Scoparium (Manuka) Oil, Organic Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Organic Cinnamomum Zeylanicum Leaf Oil.
You can pretty much find info out there about avoiding everything possible, much of which isn’t based on much. It’s not considered an ingredient to avoid by the medical community. My list of ingredients that I screen out is very conservative and it’s here: skincare ingredients to avoid during pregnancy
Hello! So happy you reviewed Activist skincare! I was wondering about Mānuka Honey Mask 850+ MGO. It contains 850+ MGO Mānuka Honey
Full Ingredient List
Raw Mānuka Honey
Thank you so much!!
Safe for pregnancy and nursing