15 Totally Not-Boring Natural Nail Polish Shades For Your Summer Mani

In the past, mainstream beauty products were often laced with harmful additives and chemicals such as formaldehyde, which with frequent exposure, could cause serious health risks — even cancer. Fortunately, increased awareness has led many beauty brands to cut back on the chemicals for their customers’ sakes (as well as their own). This movement towards non-toxic beauty is perhaps best illustrated in the nail polish industry, as more and more brands seek to revamp their formulas sans the dangerous chemicals once used. These safe(er) polishes are often labeled five, seven, or nine-free, which refers to the amount of chemicals cut from the formula. Five-free lacquers are formulated without formaldehyde, toluene, DBP, camphor or formaldehyde resin; seven-free without the aforementioned five, plus xylene and triphenyl phosphate; and nine-free without all of the above, or parabens and animal byproducts. You might think that ‘non-toxic’ beauty is boring — there’s this misconception that the more ‘natural’ something is, the less exciting it is — but that’s totally not the case. To prove it, we’ve rounded up fifteen of the best chemical-free brights for your best (and safest) manicure yet. Check them out below.