Mineral Makeup Secrets

One of the most important innovations of our century is certainly mineral makeup. But do you know what makes it so special?

Technology vs. Tradition

The story of this type of make-up started in ancient Egypt and ancient Greece, where beautiful women used black kohl pencil, charcoal mixed with olive oil or green malahit for eye makeup. Lip-sticks were made from natural fats and ocher. Romans used powdered chalk to create make-up and ferric oxide for shading cheeks and lips.

It seems that a woman uses an average of about 15 cosmetic products a day, and the amount of chemicals introduced into the body is about 1 kg. However it is clear that we can’t give them up, nor the body lotions, make-up or the shower gel. 

The Secret Recipe for Success

The development of the cosmetic industry led to elaborate production and a wider range of this mineral product, designed mainly for skin problems. Products that are in the mineral makeup category have a 90% mineral content, natural, sterilized, and sprayed as a very fine powder. The substances included are Titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, magnesium, and clay. Each has well-defined properties:

• Titanium dioxide and zinc oxide provide protection against UV rays and are anti-inflammatory
• Clay absorbs fat from the skin and reduces scars.

For make-up and powder, we add some pigments, so we can reach the desired shade.

Cream makeup, kohl crayons, lipsticks, and foundations use Shea butter, which has hydrating properties, jojoba oil, which provides adherence, and cacao seed butter, which is ideal for sensitive and very dry skin.

Mineral make-up became known among the stars of Hollywood when the famous make-up artist Susan Posnick made public that she suffered from skin cancer. Being dependent on the make-up, she found an alternative, that being: mineral make-up.

Benefits Make Mineral

Because the talcum powder from ordinary products is replaced with zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, mineral makeup has a much longer validity period and generally has no smell. The skin can breathe, pores are uncovered, it doesn’t favor black points, and it’s not like a mask on your face. Not only sensitive skin enjoys these qualities of mineral makeup, but also oily skin. But it is contraindicated for dry skin. Also, some people have developed allergies to mineral components, but these cases are very rare.