bath and body

MIneral make-up ingredients: Titanium dioxide

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Titanium dioxide (Ti02) is a staple in mineral make-up, offering light scattering and whitening properties. In fact, titanium dioxide is one of the whitest materials on earth, so you can add it to your creations to create heavier coverage or whiter colours. Because of this whitening effect, it would not be considered a translucent or...

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Mineral make-up ingredients: Zinc oxide

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Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a staple in mineral make-up products. So why do we use it?Zinc oxide tends to whiten skin, so we use it in MMU as a skin whitener that is going to be less opaque than titanium dioxide (more about this product tomorrow). It offers good coverage – the more you use,...

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Conditioner wrap up!

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I can’t believe I don’t have a picture of liquid conditioner! For your viewing pleasure, I present two bottles of leave in conditioner! To sum it all up, a good conditioner starts with a cationic quaternary compound as the base… Incroquat BTMS-50 Cetrimonium Bromide Cetrimonium Chloride Incroquat CR Incroquat OSC Then add your ingredients to...

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Building a mineral make-up foundation: A translucent base (updated)

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Finishing powder is a great way to get started on making mineral foundations because you can get a sense how much coverage you want. This is a very light coverage without colour intended to downplay such things as redness or broken capillaries and offer oil control. We’ll be using the following ingredients (and I’ll be...

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Cationic quaternary compounds: Incroquat OSC

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Incroquat OSC is Cetearyl Alcohol, PEG-3 Distearoylamidoethylmonium Methosulfate, Polysorbate 60. It is 25% active, meaning it contains 25% PEG-3 (I’m going to call it this because I don’t think I can type it over and over again!) with the rest being the fatty alcohol, and polysorbate 60. You’ll remember cetearyl alcohol is a fatty alcohol...

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