Overview, formulation and trends of color cosmetics
1. Color cosmetics and makeup products
Overview, Formula composition, trends and innovation
Dr.Naphatsorn Kumar
School of Cosmetic Science, MFU
naphatsorn.kum@mfu.ac.th
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2. Outline
• Overview of color cosmetics
• Formula composition
• Trends and innovation for makeup products
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3. Introduction
• Makeup products are used since ancient time
• For improving appearance, sun protection and
medical applications
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5. Advances in makeup products
• Advances in pigments research
– New optical properties give distinctive look
• Advances in ingredients
– Polymers that have distinctive feel
• Functional makeup
– Combination of makeup and care
– Alphabet products: AA, BB, CC, DD, EE, etc.
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6. Formulation
• Pigments play a major roles
• Classification of pigments
– Organic pigment
– Mineral pigment: Titanium dioxide and iron oxides
– Nacreous pigment
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7. Organic pigments
• Only those that allowed by FDA
• Organic pigments are created by the precipitation reaction of
soluble dye with some minerals such as aluminium and calcium
hydroxides
• Called “Lakes”
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8. Nacreous pigments
• or Pearlescents
• Create frosted appearance
• Divided into 3 classes
– Guanine or Natural pearl essences from fish scale
– Bismuth oxychloride: Metallic look
– Mica and surface-treated mica
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10. Fall winter 2015/2016 Color trends
• Nude tone
• Face contouring
• Soft focus
• “Enhance rather than erase”
(Harrington and Dobos, 2015)
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11. Base makeup
• or Face makeup
• Helps make skin look natural and beautiful
• Masks imperfections on skin
• New pigments: pigments that coated with silicone or fluoride oil
will give specific sensory profile, some pigments have auto-
adaptive effect with can adjust to light
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15. • Common pigments:
– Mica: transperent, glow
– Titanium dioxide: good covering, UV protection but hard feel
– Silica: oil control
• A surface treated pigments: give extra sensory and special
characteristics
– Silicone treated: smooth feel but lipid miscible will collapse when
contact with skin sebum
– Perfluoroalkyl phosphate and fluoro compounds treated: excellent oil
and water repellency
– Polymer coated: for UV protection
16. Face powders
• Provide coverage complexion of
imperfections, oil control, matte finished
and smoothness
• Provides long lasting effect and
absorbing extra oil from foundations
• Face powders: loose powder and
compact powder
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17. Face powder ingredients
• Talc and Serecite: spreadability
• Chalk and Kaolin: absorbability
• Magnesium stearate: adherence
• Zinc oxide and Titanium oxide: coverage
• Pigments: color
• Mica: improve skin feel, product adhesion and skin adhesion
• Nylon and Polyamide: improve skin feel
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18. Functional base makeup
• Barrier improving makeup: contain ceramides
• Moisturizer makeup: moisturizing ingredients
• Anti-aging makeup: antioxidants, anti-wrinkle agents
• Sun protection: sunscreens
• Whitening and lightening
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20. Photogenic pigments
Hylamide Photography foundation
Fractionated Blurring Silica Suspension
• Nano fractions of silica-based prisms create
light confusion for reduced visible lines and
pores immediately without looking like
traditional makeup, while specifically creating
a perfect backdrop to highlight facial features
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21. Products in trends
• Mousse texture in jar
• Mousse spray
• Cushion
• Spray
• Photogenic/Photoready
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27. Point makeup
• Lip products
• Eye products
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28. Lipsticks
• Consist of oils, waxes and pigments + other ingredients
• Waxes will give hardness to lipsticks and adhesive effect to skin
• Oils will give slippery and soft effect on application
• Pigments:
– Titanium dioxide: give opacity, intensity and coverage
– Pearlescent: give color highlight
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29. Matte vs Gloss lipsticks
• For matte lipsticks
– Talc, Nylon, Silica, Polymethylmethacrylates are useful for matte look
• For gloss lipsticks
– High level of waxy substances
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30. Functional lipstick and lip care products
• Lipsticks that contain peptides that exert plumping effects
• Some are contain blood circulations stimulants
31. Examples
Duwop Lip venom
Hydrogenated Polyisobutane, Jojoba (Simmondsia
Chinensis) Seed Oil, Avocado (Persea Gratissma)
Oil, Flavor (Aroma)*, Propylparaben, Benzyl
Alcohol, Linalool, Red 6 Lake (Cl 15850)
* Claimed that it is cinnamon
41. Eye products
• Eye products required extra care
• Prevention of contamination which may lead to the eye infection
• For eyeshadows: their formula compositions is comparable to
face powder, with smaller pigment size and wider color range
• For eyeliner: usually comes in liquid, with extra-fine pigment size
42. Eye trends
• Metallics are the element to luxury look
• New palettes usually contain metallic shade
43. Novel eyeshadow
Rice starch eyeshadow from Youngblood Mineral Cosmetics
Ingredients:
Mica (CI 77019), Zinc Stearate, Caprylic/ Capric
Triglyceride, Lauroyl Lysine, Oryza Sativa (Rice)
Starch, Simmondsia chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil,
Lonicera caprifolium Flower Extract, Lonicera
japonica Flower Extract. May Contain: Titanium
Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491, CI
77492, CI 77499), Carmine (CI 75470),
Ultramarines (CI 77007), Chromium Oxide Greens
(CI 77288), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Bismuth
Oxychloride (CI 77163), Ferric Ferrocyanide (CI
77510), Blue 1 Lake (CI 42090), Yellow 5 Lake (CI
42090).
44. Mascara
• Special product with particular development
• Choice of mascara depends on types of eyelashes and the
require effects
• Formulations can be water-based, solvent-based and hybrids
• Film-former is the important ingredient in mascara, as its film will
thicken, lengthen, or darken the eyelashes, according to the
film-former types
46. References
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GCI September 2015;30-32.
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• Roberts R. (2015). Spring/summer 2015 Color trends. GCI January/February
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