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.
Candelilla Wax
A plant wax from the candelilla shrub — the vegan alternative to beeswax.
It gives the emulsion structure and keeps the pigment from separating out in the bottle, so the shade you shake is the shade you pump.
Full entry →Mineral-Derived Ozokerite
A mineral wax, used to set the structure of an oil-based stick.
It is the structure. Two liquid oils and a pigment load will not hold a shape, so ozokerite is what makes the Cream Foundation a stick rather than a jar.
Full entry →Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax
The hardest natural plant wax, harvested from the leaves of the Brazilian carnauba palm.
It raises the melting point so the formula survives a warm bag, and in the mascara it is what builds length along the lash without flaking.
Full entry →Sunflower Seed Wax
A hard plant wax refined from sunflower seed oil.
It is the flexible part of the mascara's wax system. Carnauba gives hardness, sunflower wax gives bend, and lashes need both or the coat cracks when you blink.
Full entry →Oryza Sativa (Rice Bran) Wax
A hard plant wax refined from rice bran oil.
It gives the primer enough body to stay where you smooth it, so it grips foundation instead of being absorbed straight into skin.
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