Nowadays, i am really getting conscious about cosmetics... It started when I came to know about the halal and haram factor involved in cosmetics.
So I just checked the ingredients list of my favorite tinted lip balm, i.e Maybelline Baby Lips Crystal Lip Balm.
In the list I found carmine. Carmine is a red color obtained from insects, which is haram! So this lip balm cannot be called halal. Now this is a very sad news for me as I really used this product alot. At home, whenever I wanted to have some tint I used this lip balm instead of lipstick or gloss or any other form of lip color because all that stuff is harmful to use on daily basis. I don't work yet, so I can avoid these to some extent. But now after this discovery I have to find a new replacement..
Here is the list of halal and haram ingredients
http://www.muslimconsumergroup.com/halal-haram-mushbooh_ingredients.html
This is some information about different cosmetics brands in this regard
http://www.muslimconsumergroup.com/cosmetic.html
And this is link from where I discovered the ingredients list of the above mentioned product
https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/
Below is the link of a blog where an effort is made to provide some tips to choose halal makeup
https://islamhashtag.com/tips-choose-halal-cosmetics/