Powders and

Pigments for
Cosmetics
Index
1. Intro
2. Company profile
3. The Necessity of Surface Treatment
4. Type of Surface Treatment
5. Properties of Surface Treatment
6. Silica treated Pigmentary TiO2 S10
7. Available Products
8. Silicone Elastomer Composite Powder

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Powders are highly used in color cosmetics.
Especially, loose powder, pressed powder, two-way compact product
and point makeup products are made of powders
that also have a primary roll in skincover (ex. concealer, blemish balm.)

Pigments are typically used in cosmetics which are divided into

three groups, extender pigments, inorganic pigments and organic
pigments.
These pigments could give you different textures depending on the
process or the synthesis of ores.
They don’t wear well on the skin and incompatible in formula if each
pigment is used directly without any treatment so various substances
have to be treated on the surface of the pigments to overcome these
shortcomings.

EnTOP Material has high technical skills in the field of surface treatment
of pigments, we will make an effort to do our best with our technicians
who have a long career in color cosmetics study from surface treatment
to product application in order to make the best products.
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C.E.O. : Park Jongeul
Establishment : 2007
Address : 716-A,Songdo BRC SMART Valley,
30, Songdomirae-ro,Yeonsu-
gu,Incheon,Korea
E-mail : entop_mt@naver.com
Tel. : +82-32-819-1949

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Having a long-lasting product is a very important factor in cosmetics.
Modern people in general who have a lot of leisure and sports activity for
Maintaining health protect their skin through makeup because they are
growing more and more interested in their health.

In these outdoor activities, pigment which has hydrophilic or lipophilic

surface structure generally must be modified to repelled water and oil
for makeup to remain a long time on the skin.

Furthermore, a pigment which surface is surrounded hydrophilic

Molecules used with silicone oil or ester oil can not make
a homogeneous finished product and stability is also decreased.
These problems can be solved by the pigment’s surface treated with
silicone oil, fatty acid and metalic soap to increase compatibility with oil.

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Silicone oil
- Methicone
- Dimethicone
- Triethoxycaprylylsilane
Metal soap
- Aluminum Dimyristate
- Magnesium Myristate
Combine treatment
- Pigments Combination
- Oils Combination
Composite powder
- Elastomer core coated with Pigments shell
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Methicone
- Excellent hydrophobicity
CH3 - Dry&Powdery feeling
- Good spreadability
SiO
- Good flowability
H
n

CH3 CH3
H H H Si O O Si O
O O O
O O O
Pigment
Pigment

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 Dimethicone
- Excellent water repellency
CH3 CH3 CH3 - Silky feeling
- Highly compatible with silicone oil
O Si SiO Si O

CH3 CH3 CH3

n

CH3 CH3 CH3

H H H H3C Si O SiO Si CH3
O O O
O CH3 O
Pigment n
Pigment

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Triethoxycaprylylsilane
- It’s water-proof
H OC2H5
- It has no residual methanol
- It has silky and moist feeling
O + C2H5O Si CnH2n+1 - It has good adhesion
H OC2H5
CnH2n+1 CnH2n+1

Si O Si
two type routes O O O
x
O

Pigment

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Metal soap - Good water repellency
- Improves skin adhesion
Aluminum dimyristate
- Long wearing
Magnesium myristate
- Vegetable derived
- Highly Lipophillic
(RCOO)2AlOH

RCOO OOCR
H H H
O O O O Al O

Pigment Pigment

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Combination - Pigments
- Remedy weakness
- Combine two different
things
Platy pigment Platy pigment

Acicular
pigment Smooth
feeling
Combination - Oils
- Methicone and Dimethicone
powdery but not dry,
emollient but not shiny
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 Water Repellency

Test method
Mix 250ml of water and 0.5g of powder.
Boil the solution up to 92℃.
Measure the powder is lasting time without
deposition or cloudness after coming to a boil.

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DS coated Sericite AS coated Talc

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Long lasting & no color change by sebum and sweat.
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An equally coated, better feeling when putting it on.
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Sericite TiO2 Talc No lumping (caking) when you Make Pressed powder.

General silicone coated AS

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 OIL Absorption – A well coated powder can have low oil absorption and have your
product long lasting.

( m l) 60

Measurement Method :
General Silicone coated
powder
Dropping silicone onto coated
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powder, and then, the degree of
AS absorption is compared to AS.

30 ml / 100g
Sericite Mica Talc

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 Dispersion with Oil

Powder Dispersibility
Methicone coated ○
AS coated ◎
Non-coated △
△ : Poor, ○ : Good, ◎ : Excellent

Measurement Method : Result :

 Mix 5% of silicone treatment agent with IPA onto powder
 Keep at 150℃ and Dry for 3hours
 Mix coated powder and Silicone at a 1/19 ratio
 And then, the degree of Silicone dispersion is compared to
AS.
AS Coated power has excellent dispersion with oil.
It develops stability and feeling for using and decreases
color change.

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The spread of coated powder AS is better than general coated powder

Sericite

Measurement Method :

Put Coated powder in a glass bottle

which is filled with
Cyclopentasiloxane and H2O at a 1/1
ratio.
Non-Coated General silicone AS Coated
Result :
Coated

AS, Advanced coating powder, is

Talc equally & naturally spread on skin.
And has an excellent feeling when
putting it on.

Non-Coated General silicone AS Coated

Coated

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 Properties
Surface activated Multifunction
coating powder for preventing Three Dimension Multi function
lumping & separating of powder by Surface by grafting Dimethicone which has Fatty Alc
sweat or sebum ohol Side Chains after
Activatings the surface.

Better Adhesiveness onto the Skin

Adsorbs Water Vapor Molecules
Higher water droplet repellency
Excellent Dispersability
H2O

powder powder Application

Two-way compact, face powder

sebum powder pact
Eye-shadow, cheek color
cream foundation, Liquid foundation
Make-Up base

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 Hydrophobicity – Acetone Titration

Cetyl Dimethicone Copolyol Treatment powder still maintains hydrophovicity like a

methicone treatment because the Copolyol Functional Group silicone is on its
surface but it’s distributed Side Chain
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Methicone

34 Cetyl Dimethicone
Copolyol Acetone Titration
Tc, dyne/cm

• Hydrophobicity quantitative
33 analysis to measure the surface
tension (critical surface tension,
Tc) of the Acetone solution
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• The Lower the Tc, the higher
hydrophbicity

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Coated Amount, %

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 Comparision of Hydrogen gas Comparision of water repellency

Minimized H2 gas compared with

common Methicone, Good
stabilized products.
General Methicone treatment

CD Coated powder’s repellency = 100

Advanced Methicone treatment
(%)
100

CD Coating 50

Excellent affinity to skin 0

Long last wear Water repellency
No color change by sebum, sweat Other company's Methicone
Our company's Methicone
CD Coating

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 Methicone&
Methicone Dimethicone Alkylsilane Metal soap
Dimethicone

Talc O O O O O

Mica O O O O O

Sericite O O O O O

TiO2 O O O O

I.O.Red O O O

I.O.Yellow O O O

I.O.Black O O O

Silica Bead O O

Boron Nitride O O

TiO2/Talc O O

TiO2/Mica O O O

Illite O O

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Superior water dispersibility
Removal of the white deposition inside of the container

TiO2 TiO2/SiO2 Composite (S10)

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XRF composition analysis of TiO2 S10

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 Application with BB Cream
(TiO2 S10 Pigment Base)

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 Dimethicone/vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer

 It is a high molecular silicone particulate which has an excellent

lubricating characteristic and has the lowest specific gravity among raw
powder materials used for cosmetics.

 Problems in cosmetic application

 Low compactibility due to its elasticity in pressed powder products.

 Swelling and adhering by oils, the particulate’s state of dispersion could
be brokendown and products could be modified.

 Solution

 Combine two different raw materials by forming a shell using inorganic

pigments, we can improve dispersibility and compactibility of silicone
elastic powder.

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EPOWDER T-60
=> Dimethicone/Vinyl dimethicone Crosspolymer(core) / Talc (Shell)
It is the powder which has the lowest specific gravity among raw
powder materials used for cosmetics. It provides a soft and elastic
texture analogous to skin due to elasticity of silicone particles
forming a light makeup film when spread on the skin .

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EPOWDER TT-7
=> Dimethicone/Vinyl dimethicone Crosspolymer(core) / TiO2 (Shell)
Provides a natural and transparent coverage due to formed
trancelucent film on the skin which is similar to corneum when mixed
with high refractive indexed powder(TiO2, ZnO, BN).

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716-A, Songdo BRC SMART Valley, 30, Songdomirae-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Korea
Tel. +82-32-819-1949 entop_mt@naver.com
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