Comments on: Is Silica Powder in MakeUp Forever HD powder dangerous?

By: ELF High Definition (HD) Powder - Review | Lipglossiping

ELF High Definition (HD) Powder - Review | Lipglossiping — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:48:34 +0000

[...] surrounding Silica and it’s use in cosmetics… but after a little google I found this article by The Beauty Brains (love [...]

By: Mineral Makeup Girl

Mineral Makeup Girl — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:33:48 +0000

@Pavlina. Some of the confusion is because companies are REQUIRED to use the same INCI name for different variations of ingredients!
The INCI for silica microspheres is “silica”. That doesn’t tell you diddly about the size or nature of the silica.
However, OSHA’s warning about silicosis is geared toward miners who are exposed to amounts and extended times we never will be!
ANYTHING can be hazardous to your health. Water can kill you if you drink too much and don’t relieve yourself

By: mmmee

mmmee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:34:59 +0000

Here is another review from a nonprofit Cosmetics Database.

http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/ingredient.php?ingred06=705911&refurl=%2Fproduct.php%3Fprod_id%3D57470%26#pb

By: mmmee

mmmee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:58:01 +0000

Also have there been actual studies done on the safety of inhaling silica in ANY form? How do we know one form is safe and another not??

Cosmeticsinfo.org is totally biased:

Based in Washington, D.C., the Council is the trade association representing the cosmetic, toiletry and fragrance industry in the United States and globally. Founded in 1894, the Council has a membership of more than 600 companies including manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers of the vast majority of finished personal care products marketed in the United States.

By: mmmee

mmmee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:45:03 +0000

Another review:

It seems like silica is a stubborn little sucker that sticks to human lung tissues quite well…provided the exposure limit info I’ve posted, and the lack of knowledge on its elimination half life & mechanism, it’s better to stay away from it…yes dusting one’s face every morning for 5mins may seem minute, but the toxic exposure is only 0.1mg-10mg/m3, the volume is only a cube of 1 meter edge, which is likely the volume that we get surround by the powder during application.

I also looked at the MSDS silica sheet from CS, and the exposure level that they’ve listed from OSHA, PEL & TLV (short for permissible, threshhold exposure levels) for a TWA (time weighted average, ~8hrs/day), is 6mg – 10mg/m3, while to cause silicosis via chronic expos. merely req. 0.1mg/m3. Given that little amount of silica in a volume of a cube with 1 meter edges, I would stay away from silica all together, regardless of the brand.

The issue is also the size of the silica sphere..

There is a PROBLEM because of small business online..like Coastal Scents who are not properly regulated or can’t seem to stop relisting their products as fillers and then as a finished product.

Also these companies do not provide enough warning labels or ingredient labels on the actual product. Who is regulating them?