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Mica Powder for Soap – Natural Ingredient for Adding Organic Characteristic

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While shopping for the soap, what attracted us the most is the color, fragrance, packing, and shape of the soap. Today, when everyone is getting more and more beauty conscious, the organic soaps are quickly coming out of the dermatologist’s clinics. Organic soaps are safe on the skin and prevent the skin from getting damaged from contact with the harmful chemicals because the organic soaps are created with natural ingredients such as dried herbs, fruit fibers, essential oils, and mica powder for soap and thus, no harmful preservatives and chemicals are added to it. Hence, these organic soaps can be made at home as well as you don’t need some huge machines and great knowledge of chemicals. However, before starting making the soap, you first need to know about the ingredients that will be required on hand. Soap base – Decide your choice and then have a soap base that comes in different varieties such as Castile, glycerin, shea butter, goat milk, cocoa butter, olive oil, oatmeal, a

Benefits of Using Mica Pigment for Paints and Coatings

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Any naturally occurring mineral element that consists of a collection of silicate minerals and composed of the different amount of iron, potassium, aluminum, magnesium, and water is known as Mica. It belongs to a very large group of minerals that seems perfectly suitable for its use along with several applications. The chemical, physical, electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties make Mica Pigment suitable for using in various different applications. Chemical properties – It is a compound hydrous silicate of aluminum that contains magnesium, iron, sodium fluorine, potassium, lithium, and some amount of few other elements. Therefore, the pigment flakes are highly constant and static to the action of water, alkalis, acids (except for hydrofluoric and concentrated sulphur), conventional solvents, bases, and oil. Thus, it remains unaffected by atmospheric changes. Physical properties – Mica Pigment is translucent, colorless in thin sheet, optically flat, elastic and inco

How is Cosmetic Grade Mica Powder Mined?

Cosmetic grade mica powder is known as naturally occurring fine particles that are used for various reflective color applications. They are mainly known for their use in a range of cosmetic products as a common natural and chemical coloring ingredient. The broad variety of pigmented, bold and long-lasting shades makes the mica powder ideal for the blending and creating an application of different color and shades. Despite the makeup range, they are also used in different industries as well as for arts and crafts such as painting, pen turning, scrapbooking, soap making, embossing sculpture, and so on. How are micas formed? They undergo a composite manufacturing process containing mica flakes, rarely titanium dioxide and iron oxides or ultramarines that depend on the final color. Cosmetic grade mica powder is then additionally processed to refine and purify the particles to meet the standards and quality of flakes suitable for use in a wide range of skin care products. Th