Ingredient dictionary

Can be sensitising when applied to skin. Most well known for use in calamine.

A powdered version of the mineral iron. A natural ingredient, it's used as an opacifying agent in cosmetics.

This rendered animal fat has moisturizing properties but also has the potential to irritate skin.

This synthetic ingredient helps diffuse light and add pearlescence to cosmetics.

Barium sulfate is an inorganic salt that occurs in nature.

A mineral wax used as a texture enhancer in cosmetics, especially to add stability to lipsticks and stick foundations and keep them blended.

This ester functions as a humectant, opacifier, and solvent in cosmetics.

A mineral wax used as a texture enhancer in cosmetics, especially to add stability to lipsticks and stick foundations and keep them blended.