Features

  • Vegan & Natural
  • Easy Application
  • Formula Form: pencil, pot or mechanical pencil

Ingredients

  • Sunflower Wax: Natural wax extracted from sunflower seeds.Very high melting point and excellent structuring capabilities, increases stick structure and stability. Structurant. Usage level 1-15%.
  • Kester Wax K-24: Naturally derived wax ester of plant origin. Low melt point semi-solid, melts on body contact, provides cooling sensation. Adds slip, reduces greasy feel, dimethicone alternative. Usage level up to 50%.
  • Kester Wax K-60P: Naturally derived plasticizer. Increases melt point, stability, compatibility in anhydrous systems, thickens emulsions and provides texture. Usage level 0.5-20%.

Categories

Main Topic

  • Color Cosmetics

Sub Topics

  • Anhydrous
  • Clean Beauty
  • Lip Product
  • Natural
  • Vegan
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Procedure

  • Combine Phase B ingredients and mill until homogeneous.
  • Combine Phase A ingredients in a vessel.
  • Heat and mix until uniform.
  • Add Phase B to Phase A and mix.
  • Once homogeneous add Phase C
  • Pour into containers around 85°C
  • Allow to cool to room temperature.

Stability

  • Three months at room temperature
  • Three months at 45°C
  • Three freeze/thaw cycles

Suppliers

  1. Koster Keunen, Inc.
  2. Brenntag Specialties
  3. BASF
  4. Sensient
  5. Jeen
  6. Grant Industries

Ingredient Trade Name

INCI Name

%
Phase A
Sunflower Wax1 Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Wax 30.0
Kester Wax K-60P1 Polyhydroxystearic Acid 6.5
Kester Wax K-241 Lauryl Laurate 4.5
Vitamin E Acetate3 Tocopheryl Acetate 1.0
Phase B
Mica Sericite BC 2852 Mica 8.28
Unipure Red LC 38661 Iron Oxides CI 77491 7.56
Unipure Red LC 32031 Carmine 3.72
Prestige Bright Fire Red2 Mica (and) Iron Oxide 1.48
Jeechem CTG5 Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride 18.96
Phase C
Vegelight 1214LC6 Coconute Alkanes (and) Coco-Caprylate/Caprate 18.0