Diamond Liquid Lip Ingredients
Ingredients Overview
Aqua, Mica, Fluorphlogopite, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Squalane, Polysorbate 60, Glycerin, Triethanolamine, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Panthenol, Phenoxyethanol, 2-Hexanediol, Caprylyl Glycol. May Contain: CI 16035, CI 45410, CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499, CI 77742, CI 77891
Highlights
#Alcohol-Free #Fragrance & Essential Oil-Free
Key Ingredients
Skin-Identical Ingredient: Squalane, Glycerin
Soothing: Panthenol
Ingredients Explained
Aqua (also called water)
What-It-Does: Solvent
Good Old Water, Aka H2o Is The Most Common Skincare Ingredient Of All. You Can Usually Find It Right In The Very First Spot Of The Ingredient List, Meaning It’s The Biggest Thing Out Of All The Stuff That Makes Up The Product.
It’s Mainly A Solvent For Ingredients That Do Not Like To Dissolve In Oils But Rather In Water.
Mica (also called CI 77019)
What-It-Does: Colorant
A Super Versatile And Common Mineral Powder That Comes In Different Particle Sizes.
It Is A Multi-Tasker Used To Improve Skin Feel, Increase Product Slip, Give The Product Light-Reflecting Properties, Enhance Skin Adhesion Or Serve As An Anti-Caking Agent.
It Is Also The Most Commonly Used "Base" Material For Layered Composite Pigments Such As Pearl-Effect Pigments. In This Case, Mica Is Coated With One Or More Metal Oxides (most commonly Titanium Dioxide) To Achieve Pearl Effect Via The Physical Phenomenon Known As Interference.
Synthetic Fluorphlogopite Is The Synthetic Version Of The Super Commonly Used Mineral Mica. The Advantage Of Being Synthetic Is That It Has A More Consistent Quality, Fewer Impurities And An Even Lower Heavy Metal Content Than Mica (not that mica's heavy metal content is high). It Is Also More Transparent And Has Improved Light Reflection.
The Two Main Uses For Synthetic Fluorphlogopite Is Being Used As A Superior "Filler" Or Skin Tone Enhancer, Or It Can Also Serve As A Base For Multi-Layered, Composite Pigments Such As Pearl Effect Pigments Where It Is Coated With One Or More Layers Of Metal Oxide, Most Commonly Titanium Dioxide.
We Don't Have Description For This Ingredient Yet
Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer (also called Sepinov Emt 10)
What-It-Does: Viscosity Controlling, Emulsion Stabilizing
This Long-Named Polymer Molecule (big molecule from repeated subunits) Is A Helper Ingredient That's Good At Emulsifying And Stabilizing Oils Into Water-Based Formulas.
It Also Acts As A Thickening And Gelling Agent That Creates Nice, Non-Sticky And Supple Textures.
It Works Over A Very Wide Ph Range (3-12) And Can Be Used To Thicken Up Low-Ph Formulas, Such As Exfoliants
Its Recommended Used Range Is 0.3-3%.
What-It-Does: Skin-Identical Ingredient, Emollient
Irritancy: 0
Comedogenicity: 1
Chemically Speaking, It Is A Saturated (no double bonds) Hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), Meaning It's A Nice And Stable Oily Liquid With A Long Shelf Life.
It Occurs Naturally In Certain Fish And Plant Oils (e.g. olive), And In The Sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) Of The Human Skin.
It's A Superb Moisturizer That Makes Your Skin Nice And Smooth, Without Being Heavy Or Greasy.
What-It-Does: Emulsifying, Surfactant/Cleansing
A Common Little Helper Ingredient That Helps Water And Oil To Mix Together, Aka Emulsifier.
Glycerin (also called Glycerol)
What-It-Does: Skin-Identical Ingredient, Moisturizer/Humectant
Irritancy: 0
Comedogenicity: 0
A Natural Moisturizer That’s Also In Our Own Skin
A Super Common, Safe, Effective And Cheap Molecule Used For More Than 50 Years
It’s Not Just A Simple Moisturizer, But It Offers So Much More. It Keeps The Skin Lipids Between Our Skin Cells In A Healthy (liquid crystal) State, Protects Against Irritation, Helps To Restore Barrier
Effective From As Low As 3% With Even More Benefits For Dry Skin At Higher Concentrations Up To 20-40%.
What-It-Does: Buffering
Irritancy: 0
Comedogenicity: 2
It’s A Little Helper Ingredient That Helps To Set The Ph Of A Cosmetic Formulation To Be Just Right. It’s Very Alkaline. A 1% Solution Has A Ph Of Around 10.
It Does Not Have The Very Best Safety Reputation, But In General You Do Not Have To Worry About It.
Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
What-It-Does: Viscosity Controlling, Emulsion Stabilizing
Though Its Long Name Does Not Reveal It, This Polymer Molecule (big molecule from repeated subunits or monomers) Is A Relative To The Super Common, Water-Loving Thickener, Carbomer. Both Are Big Molecules That Contain Acrylic Acid Units, But Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer Also Contains Some Other Monomers That Are Hydrophobic, i.e. Water-Hating.
This Means That Our Molecule Is Part Water- And Part Oil-Loving, So It Not Only Works As A Thickener But Also As An Emulsion Stabilizer.
It Is Very Common In Gel-Type Formulas That Also Contain An Oil-Phase As Well As In Cleansers As It Also Works With Most Cleansing Agents (unlike a lot of other thickeners).
Panthenol (also called Pro-Vitamin B5)
What-It-Does: Soothing, Moisturizer/Humectant
Irritancy: 0
Comedogenicity: 0
An Easy-To-Formulate, Commonly Used, Nice To Have Ingredient That’s Also Called Pro-Vitamin B5. As You Might Guess From The “Pro” Part, It’s A Precursor To Vitamin B5 (whose fancy name is Pantothenic Acid).
Its Main Job In Skincare Products Is To Moisturize The Skin. It’s A Humectant Meaning That It Can Help The Skin To Attract Water And Then Hold Onto It.
There Is Also Research Showing That Panthenol Can Help Our Skin To Produce More Lovely Lipids That Are Important For A Strong And Healthy Skin Barrier.
What-It-Does: Preservative
It’s Pretty Much The Current It-Preservative Because It’s Safe And Gentle
It Was Introduced Around 1950 And Today It Can Be Used Up To 1% Worldwide
It Can Be Found In Nature - In Green Tea - But The Version Used In Cosmetics Is Synthetic
What-It-Does: Solvent
A Really Multi-Functional Helper Ingredient That Can Do Several Things In A Skincare Product:
It Can Bring A Soft And Pleasant Feel To The Formula
It Can Act As A Humectant And Emollient
It Can Be A Solvent For Some Other Ingredients (for example it can help to stabilize perfumes in watery products)
It Can Also Help To Disperse Pigments More Evenly In Makeup Products
It Can Also Boost The Antimicrobial Activity Of Preservatives
What-It-Does: Moisturizer/Humectant, Emollient, Deodorant
It’s A Handy Multi-Tasking Ingredient That Gives The Skin A Nice, Soft Feel.
At The Same Time It Also Boosts The Effectiveness Of Other Preservatives, Such As Phenoxyethanol.
The Blend Of These Two (Caprylyl Glycol + Phenoxyethanol) Is Called Optiphen, Which Not Only Helps To Keep Your Cosmetics Free From Nasty Things For A Long Time, But Also Gives A Good Feel To The Finished Product
A Very Popular Duo
CI 16035 (also called Red 40)
What-It-Does: Colorant
Irritancy: 2
Comedogenicity: 2
We Don't Have Description For This Ingredient Yet
CI 45410 (also called Red 28, Red 27, Red 27 Lake, Red 28 Lake, Acid Red 92 Phloxine)
What-It-Does: Colorant
Irritancy: 0
Comedogenicity: 2
A Cosmetic Colorant Used As A Reddish Pigment.
Some Version Of It Have A Ph-Sensitive Dye That Enables A Colorless Lip Balm To Turn Red/Pink Upon Application.
CI 77491 (also called Iron Oxide Red)
What-It-Does: Colorant
Irritancy: 0
Comedogenicity: 0
Red Iron Oxide Is The Super Common Pigment That Gives The Familiar "Rust" Red Color. It Is Also The One That Gives The Pink Tones In Your Foundation.
Chemically Speaking, It Is Iron III Oxide (Fe2o3)
CI 77492 (also called Iron Oxide Yellow)
What-It-Does: Colorant
Irritancy: 0
Comedogenicity: 0
Yellow Iron Oxide Is The Super Common Inorganic (as in no carbon atom in the molecule) Pigment That Gives The Yellow Tones In Your Foundation. Blended With Red And Black Iron Oxides, It Is Essential In All "Flesh-Toned" Makeup Products.
Chemically Speaking, It Is Hydrated Iron III Oxide And Depending On The Conditions Of Manufacture, It Can Range From A Light Lemon To An Orange-Yellow Shade.
CI 77499 (also called Iron Oxide Black)
What-It-Does: Colorant
Irritancy: 0
Comedogenicity: 0
Black Iron Oxide Is The Super Common Inorganic (as in no carbon atom in the molecule) Pigment That Controls The Darkness Of Your Foundation Or Gives The Blackness To Your Mascara. Blended With Red And Black Iron Oxides, It Is Essential In All "Flesh-Toned" Makeup Products.
Chemically Speaking, It Is A Mixture Of Iron II And Iron III Oxide.
Unlike The Yellow And Red Iron Oxide Pigments, Black Iron Oxide Is Magnetic
CI 77742 (also called Manganese Violet)
What-It-Does: Colorant
An Inorganic (as in no carbon in its molecule) Pigment That Gives A Purple Or Violet Shade To A Color
CI 77861 (also called CI 77861, Tin Dioxide, Tin Oxide)
What-It-Does: Colorant, Abrasive/Scrub, Viscosity Controlling
Far From The Tin Cans You Find In The Supermarket, Tin Oxide Is Mostly Used When Dealing With So-Called Effect Pigments, Tricky Composite Pigments That Can Do Color Travel (change color depending on the viewing angle) Or Give Multiple Color Effect.
It's Often Found Alongside Mica (as a base material) And Titanium Dioxide (as a coating) To Give A Glossy, Pearlescent Effect. Together, They Make Up A Trademarked Technology Called Ronaflair Blanace From The German Manufacturer Merck. According To Their Info, This Combination Can Balance Out Undesirable Tones In The Skin, Making It A Popular Choice For Brightening Products And Highlighters.
CI 77891 (also called Titanium Dioxide/CI 77891)
