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Ok, so do you think a pinch of silica balls added to 4g of base, plus pigment would do it? Or should be more. I’ve about 2lbs of silica balls at home so I’m not too worried about wasting them. I more worried about not finding the right mica’s again!
She’s trying to replicate Cake Mascara from Besame Cosmetics. She doesn’t have stearic acid, which is listed as the first ingredient, so she’s adding ewax and playing around with the other percentages to try and recreate a similar product.
I have no idea what comment I thought I was responding to. I’m going to bed. Night night! Ladies of my tribe❤😘
I was going to ask… huh? Sweet dream Belinda!
Cyn, the base recipe for eye liners is 4g of the base. Plus pigment. My question was of how much silica balls to add into the base recipe. I saw Sarah mention a pinch when she talked about awesome long wearing eyeliner.
If you did 3g, could you go up and down from there? Or does that depend on the formula? I know the spheres can be irritating if too much, it would depend on the size of the pinch?
A pinch is a unit of measurement
Changing 4g to 3g of the base recipe from the book, means figuring out the precentage of pigments then experimenting to see if those ratios work and if your math was good It is just easier to stay with 4g of the base ingredient of the eye liner, the same amount of pigment to keep everything the same and then sharing the final recipe is easier as everyone is on the same page.
GRRR okay maybe someone can help. I can’t figure out why my experiment is so much less opaque than the pure cream eyeliner I made. I used more pigment per gram in the cake mascara than in the cream eyeliner and it’s still semi-transparent.
Also, silica microspheres are awesome, and I use them to set my eyeliner, mascara, concealer, and lipstick edges!
So when you added pigment, no change in the amounts? Just adding the silica spheres? They diffuse light, but I’m not sure they’d create that much of a difference in opacity.
Have you looked over on http://www.chemistscorner.com ? They have a lot of info on cosmetic chemistry and formulation. Chemists Corner and Beauty Brains are both run by Perry Romanowski, a cosmetic chemist. Both are great sites to follow to learn about anything related to cosmetics. Chemists Corner does free webinars too, to help you learn about formulation. I am out of ideas as to why your color is more sheer. The only thing I can think of is it has to do with the ewax, since that is the main difference from Marie’s recipe. Maybe we can get Marie to chime in with a suggestion?
Sadly work has swamped me recently so I’ve temporarily postponed this experiment until I can get my hands on some stearic acid.
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