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INCI ingredient

Mica

Also listed as: CI 77019, ) Mica

A mineral that gives makeup and highlighters their shimmer.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno animal source
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

What it does

Mica is a natural silicate mineral ground into fine flakes. Synthetic mica (Synthetic Fluorphlogopite) is used for a cleaner sparkle.

It affects none of the six checks.

Functions: pigment, shimmer

Products with Mica

in 608 products

Showing 24 of 608 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • anticaking
  • bulking
  • colorant
  • opacifying
  • anticaking: Preventing agglomeration of particulate solids into lumps or hard masses (cohesive cake), thus allowing free flow of particles.
  • bulking: Non-reactive (chemically inert), solid ingredients that dilute other solids and/or increase the volume of cosmetic products.
  • colorant: Exclusively or mainly intended to colour the cosmetic product, the body as a whole or certain parts thereof, by absorption or reflection of visible light; (precursors of oxidative hair colorants shall be deemed colorants). All authorised colorants are substances in the positive list of Annex IV to the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009.
  • opacifying: Reducing transparency or translucency of cosmetics.

CAS 12001-26-2 · EC 310-127-6

EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

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