Mar 8, 2007 | Article
By Nick Morante
For new shade development and creation, cosmetic shades can be broken down into four different groups or families. They are the reds, violets, nudes and the tawnys. The colorants available to the...
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Mar 1, 2007 | Article
I composed this article to show that there are differences in the characteristics between eyeshadows and blushers and the ingredients used in their formulation. Powder cheek colors, or Blushers as...
Feb 23, 2007 | Article
Naturals, naturals, naturals. That's all I (we) hear about. I hate to beat a dead horse but this subject will never go away. I started contributing technical articles and editorials for SpecialChem...
Feb 22, 2007 | Article
The object of this article is to separate and differentiate the characteristics between eyeshadows and blushers and their methods of formulation. Pressed powder eyeshadows are another simple product...
Feb 2, 2007 | Article
Powders are sometimes the messiest of the color cosmetic products that formulators have to work with. They are dry particulates that are designed to cover the skin with color and effect as well as...
Jan 18, 2007 | Article
What people rarely talk about, or even get a chance to read about, are products geared towards children. I'm not talking about the teen market, which is very well defined and positioned within the...
Dec 22, 2006 | Article
I didn't want the title to mislead anyone. When I say equipment to process color cosmetics, I specifically mean the equipment in the grinding process used to reduce colors, pigments and other color...
Oct 25, 2006 | Article
Pearl and effect pigments are possibly the only area of color and decorative cosmetics in which new innovations can show a point of difference with the conventional ingredients the cosmetics...
Jul 20, 2006 | Article
One of the first signs of age affects the lips. With age, lips loose their initial volume, they become thinner, loose colour and fine vertical lines appear around them. Since 2005, there has been...
Mar 29, 2006 | Article
The function of all skin cosmetic products is to improve the inherent beauty of the skin, hiding all defaults, such as wrinkles, fine lines, dischromas... At the same time there is a strong consumer...