Name: Dermacolor Fixing Powder Talc-Free
Brand: Kryolan

What's inside

Ingredients Explained

Mica

Cosmetic Colorant

Mica is a naturally occurring mineral used to add shimmer and color in cosmetics. It can also help improve the texture of a product or give it an opaque, white/silver color.

Serecite is the name for very fine but ragged grains of mica.

This ingredient is often coated with metal oxides like titanium dioxide. Trace amounts of heavy metals may be found in mica, but these metals are not harmful in our personal products.

Mica has been used since prehistoric times throughout the world. Ancient Egyptian, Indian, Greek, Roman, Aztec, and Chinese civilizations have used mica.

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Zea Mays Starch

Absorbent, Skin Protecting

Zea Mays Starch is starch made from corn. You might know this as cornstarch . It is used to thicken a product. It can replace talc as an absorbent.

The pH of cornstarch is 5.92.

Cornstarch is a common food ingredient used to thicken soups or to make corn syrup.

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Magnesium Myristate

Magnesium Myristate is the magnesium salt of myristic acid, a saturated fatty acid that is naturally found in coconut and palm kernel oil.

In formulas, it's used as an anticaker, opacifier, and viscosity controller; it improves adhesion and glide in pressed mineral makeup, works as a non-gelling thickener in eyeliners/mascaras/lipsticks, and doubles as a white opacifier.

There's no published concentration use from surveys so the best available numbers are supplier guidance: 5-10% for loose powders and 2-5% for creamy cosmetics + pressed powder binding.

The CIR Expert Panel reviewed Magnesium Myristate as part of its assessment of myristic acid and its salts and esters, and concluded the whole group is safe as used in cosmetics.

In human studies, Myristic Acid was non-irritating up to 50% and 100% Magnesium Stearate was non-irritating and non-corrosive on skin and non-irritating to the eye.

There are no published contact allergy case reports for this ingredient so allergy risk is low, but not zero for any ingredient.

There is no comedogenic data for Magnesum Myristate. The comedogenic ratings that circulate for "myristates" come from Isopropyl Myristate which is a structurally different ester.

The rabbit-ear models those comedogenic ratings come from have been shown to be unreliable for predicting whether a finished product will clog pores.

Human testing has proved that any finished product with a comedogenic ingredient won't automatically make you break out; it really comes down to concentration, formula, and your skin.

Some people still find it breaks them out. So if that's you, definitely trust your skin.

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Magnesium Stearate

Cosmetic Colorant, Moisturising

Magnesium Stearate is a salt that is 2 parts stearic acid and 1 part magnesium.

It is a white powder that can be used to add bulk and color to products by binding to oil ingredients.

CI 77491

Cosmetic Colorant

Ci 77491 is also hydrated iron III oxide. It's sole purpose is to give a red/pink hue to products.

Iron III oxides are classified as inorganic chemicals for coloring.

Synthetically created Ci 77491 is considered safer than those naturally found. This is because the synthetically created version may contain less impurities. Iron oxides are generally non-toxic and non-allergenic.

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CI 77492

Cosmetic Colorant

CI 77492 is also hydrated iron III oxide. It's sole purpose is to give a yellow hue to products.

Iron III oxides are classified as inorganic chemicals for coloring.

Synthetically created CI 77492 is considered safer than those naturally found. This is because the synthetically created version may contain less impurities. Iron oxides are generally non-toxic and non-allergenic.

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CI 77499

Cosmetic Colorant

Ci 77499 is also hydrated iron III oxide. It is created from mixing red and black iron oxides. This helps give shades of darkness to a product.

Iron III oxides are classified as inorganic chemicals for coloring.

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