Ingredient Logic
The Ingredient Glossary
One entry per ingredient, written once and surfaced everywhere — on flip cards, on product ladders, and here. If an ingredient is in an ingredientlogic formula, it has a page.
Ethically Sourced Mica
A naturally occurring silicate mineral, ground and pressed into thin reflective platelets.
It is the body of the baked pressed formulas — the platelet structure is what lets a powder sit flat on skin, diffuse light instead of sitting on top of it, and carry pigment evenly across the face.
Full entry →Sericite Mica
A finer-milled variety of mica with a smaller, silkier platelet than standard cosmetic mica.
It refines the texture of the base. Where mica gives the powder its body, sericite gives it slip — the fine particle size is what makes a pressed mineral feel silky rather than chalky under a brush.
Full entry →Boron Nitride
A synthetic mineral with a platelet structure similar to mica's, used for soft-focus diffusion.
Soft focus. It scatters light across the surface of the foundation so full coverage looks like skin rather than like a layer, without using mica.
Full entry →Non-Nano Titanium Dioxide
A white mineral pigment, used here in non-nano particle size so it stays on the surface of skin.
It is the opacity in the Liquid Foundation. Full coverage from botanicals needs a white base pigment to build the iron oxides against, and non-nano titanium dioxide is the one that does it without mica.
Full entry →Silica
Micro-fine spherical mineral particles milled from silicon dioxide, the same mineral family as sand and quartz.
It does the blurring and the shine control. The spheres roll against each other, so a powder built on silica presses smooth and keeps surface oil from pooling through the day.
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