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Chemistry in Everyday Life: Cosmetics

Chemistry in Everyday Life: Cosmetics. BY: ARIANA WEST. Unconscious Chemicals. Women and girls tend to use a lot of make up throughout the week, not realizing how much chemicals are actually being applied to their face.

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Chemistry in Everyday Life: Cosmetics

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  1. Chemistry in Everyday Life: Cosmetics BY: ARIANA WEST

  2. Unconscious Chemicals • Women and girls tend to use a lot of make up throughout the week, not realizing how much chemicals are actually being applied to their face. • Because make up is seen as a product to enhance appearance, it also runs the risk of harmful affects. • Depending on what is being used, there runs a smaller risk of some side effects from the different chemicals.

  3. The Color • The main part of makeup • Chemists use a lot of different dyes and compounds to get the desired color on makeup. • Some of these materials they get the color of makeup from is coal tar, chromium oxide, aluminum powder, manganese, iron oxide, and mica flakes. • They also get some of their coloring for makeup from animals such as the dried body of the cochineal insect.

  4. Bases • Very important in the process of making makeup • Creates a way for the colors to stay on the face through multiple phases • Manufacturing term (not the chemistry one)

  5. Bulking Agents • Used for even coverage of makeup (in things like foundation and eye shadow) • Commonly used bulking agent: Talc/ French chalk • Hazardous when inhaled too much

  6. Sunscreens • Used to protect against cancerous rays from the sun • Some commonly used compounds: benzophenones, such as oxybenzone and dioxybenzone • Like some bulking agents, these can also be harmful

  7. Conclusion • Because of chemistry, make up has developed rapidly, to enhance appearances • There are three basic main parts of the making of make up: color, bases, and bulking agents • And without these advancements…

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