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Sunflower oil is a fantastic oil if you are looking for a high linoleic acid oil. It is light, meaning you can make some very light moisturizers containing great ingredients, and it’s inexpensive. Its fatty acid make up is…5 to 7% palmitic acid (saturated, C16)3 to 6% stearic acid (saturated, C18)16 to 36% oleic acid...
Mich very kindly sent me a sample of TKB Trading’s silk mica to try, so I’ve been including it in everything lately. (It may be similar to mica powder from MakingCosmetics.com but the micron size is different!) But what exactly is it? Silk mica is a colourless, translucent mica with a large particle size of...
For more information on talc, please click here. For more information on talc as a filler with micas, please click here. The grind: I used the Aster matte pigment grind from TKB Trading. I doubled the recipe to be…3.2 grams manganese violet1.0 grams ultramarine pink1.0 grams ultramarine blueI did not include any base as I’m...
I was so surprised by how nice talc felt in my mineral make-up, so I thought I’d do a little experimenting. From the post on make-up fillers – I used rhapsody talc from TKB Trading as the only filler in a colour grind. I found it did change the colour a bit, but was very...
As I mentioned yesterday, I was really surprised by the talc, so I had to write a post about it!Talc is hydrous magnesium silicate with a chemical formula of Mg3Si4O10(OH)2 or H2Mg3(SiO3)4. It is the softest known mineral. It is used a lot in mineral make-up and most comparisons of fillers include “better than talc”...