Except what if the face paint that you buy in stores, manufactured cheaply and quickly and imported for quick sale, turn out to be more harmful to your children’s bodies than the risk of walking around in the dark with their vision hampered by a mask? It’s possible. Ideally, the FDA should approve face paints before their sale, but dangerous items do slip through, and, as I discussed in my post on D.I.Y. temporary tattoos, there’s just no guarantee that those cheap products imported from China even came here the legal route. I let my kids climb tall trees and cut with sharp knives and whack at each other with sticks in the yard, but the possibility of allowing them to put substances that might be contaminated with heavy metals or bacteria onto their delicate skin? That stops me cold. Fortunately, there are plenty of options to those Wal-mart face paint kits. Some are store-bought, some are D.I.Y., but all of the options below are more eco-friendly, and more safe, than what’s on the store shelves right now: Do you have a D.I.Y. face paint recipe that works for you? Share it with the rest of us!
