
Ceutics Mineral Brush
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Key Ingredients
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Ingredient name | what-it-does | irr., com. | ID-Rating |
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Mica | colorant | ||
Titanium Dioxide | sunscreen, colorant | goodie | |
Zinc Oxide | sunscreen | 0, 1 | goodie |
Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer | viscosity controlling | ||
Iron Oxides | colorant | 0, 0 | |
Polymethylsilsesquioxane | |||
Silica | viscosity controlling | ||
Calcium Silicate | viscosity controlling | ||
Triethoxycaprylylsilane | |||
Lauroyl Lysine | viscosity controlling | ||
Stearic Acid | emollient, viscosity controlling | 0, 2-3 | |
1,2-Hexanediol | solvent | ||
Caprylyl Glycol | moisturizer/humectant, emollient | ||
Benzylidene Dimethoxydimethylindanone |
ISDIN Ceutics Mineral BrushIngredients explained
A super versatile and common mineral powder that comes in different particle sizes. It is a multi-tasker used to improve skin feel, increase product slip, give the product light-reflecting properties, enhance skin adhesion or serve as an anti-caking agent.
It is also the most commonly used "base" material for layered composite pigments such as pearl-effect pigments. In this case, mica is coated with one or more metal oxides (most commonly titanium dioxide) to achieve pearl effect via the physical phenomenon known as interference.
Titanium Dioxide is one of the two members of the elite sunscreen group called physical sunscreens (or inorganic sunscreens if you’re a science geek and want to be precise).
Traditionally, UV-filters are categorized as either chemical or physical. The big difference is supposed to be that chemical agents absorb UV-light while physical agents reflect it like a bunch of mini umbrellas on top of the skin. While this categorization is easy and logical it turns out it's not true. A recent, 2016 study shows that inorganic sunscreens work mostly by absorption, just like chemical filters, and only a little bit by reflection (they do reflect the light in the visible spectrum, but mostly absorb in the UV spectrum).
When it comes to sunscreen agents, Zinc Oxide is pretty much in a league of its own. It's a physical (or inorganic) sunscreen that has a lot in common with fellow inorganic sunscreen Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) but a couple of things make it superior even to TiO2.
If physical sunscreens don't tell you anything, go ahead and read about the basics here. Most of what we wrote about Titanium Dioxide is also true for Zinc Oxide so we will focus here on the differences.
A white, elastomeric silicone powder that gives a nice silky and powdery feel to the products. It also has some oil and sebum absorption capabilities.
A bit of a sloppy ingredient name as it covers not one but three pigments: red, yellow and black iron oxide.
The trio is invaluable for "skin-colored" makeup products (think your foundation and pressed powder) as blending these three shades carefully can produce almost any shade of natural-looking flesh tones.
A spherical texturizing powder that's used as a texture enhancer and soft focus agent. It's claimed to give silicone type softness to the formula and also works as a (temporary) wrinkle filler.
A white powdery thing that's the major component of glass and sand. In cosmetics, it’s often in products that are supposed to keep your skin matte as it has great oil-absorbing abilities. It’s also used as a helper ingredient to thicken up products or suspend insoluble particles.
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
A clear, light yellow liquid that is used to coat pigments (such as inorganic sunscreen agents or colorants) in cosmetic products. The coating helps to stabilize pigments in the formulas and also helps them to spread easily and evenly on the skin.
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
A common multi-tasker fatty acid. It makes your skin feel nice and smooth (emollient), gives body to cream type products and helps to stabilize water and oil mixes (aka emulsions).
A really multi-functional helper ingredient that can do several things in a skincare product: it can bring a soft and pleasant feel to the formula, it can act as a humectant and emollient, it can be a solvent for some other ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products) and it can also help to disperse pigments more evenly in makeup products. And that is still not all: it can also boost the antimicrobial activity of preservatives.
It’s a handy multi-tasking ingredient that gives the skin a nice, soft feel. At the same time, it also boosts the effectiveness of other preservatives, such as the nowadays super commonly used phenoxyethanol.
The blend of these two (caprylyl glycol + phenoxyethanol) is called Optiphen, which not only helps to keep your cosmetics free from nasty things for a long time but also gives a good feel to the finished product. It's a popular duo.
We don't have description for this ingredient yet.
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what‑it‑does | colorant |
what‑it‑does | sunscreen | colorant |
what‑it‑does | sunscreen |
irritancy, com. | 0, 1 |
what‑it‑does | viscosity controlling |
what‑it‑does | colorant |
irritancy, com. | 0, 0 |
what‑it‑does | viscosity controlling |
what‑it‑does | viscosity controlling |
what‑it‑does | viscosity controlling |
what‑it‑does | emollient | viscosity controlling |
irritancy, com. | 0, 2-3 |
what‑it‑does | solvent |
what‑it‑does | moisturizer/humectant | emollient |