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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...

The Properties of Mica Pigment Make it Worth the Uses

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The groups of minerals that have the similar physical and chemical properties are termed as mica. The micas are silicate minerals, known as sheet silicates as they are produced from distinct layers. These are light, soft, and the sheet and minute particles are fairly flexible.  Mica pigment powders  are heat-resistant and don’t conduct heat. Basically, the most commonly used mica minerals, among the 37 different types, are black biotite, purple lepidolite, brown phlogopite, and clear muscovite. Furthermore, due to the non-toxic silicate mineral property, mica has been used for centuries. Most mined mica claims to have blue or green hues, but for making a different color appearance, iron oxides and other additives are added to it. Every so often, heat-treating is used to raise the metallic appearance of the mica.