Ingredients beginning with B
Every ingredient in the dictionary filed under B — with its identifiers, its origin, and what it actually does.
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Beeswax
BEESWAX
Beeswax is the material a honeybee colony builds its comb from, and the oldest wax with a documented place in cosmetics: it sets the shape of a lipstick, thickens a balm, and holds oil and water together in a cream.
Bismuth Oxychloride
BISMUTH OXYCHLORIDE
A synthetic white that grows as flat, highly reflective crystals, giving the silvery pearl finish which dominated cosmetics for decades before coated mica arrived.
Brazilwood
CAESALPINIA SAPPAN BARK EXTRACT
A cheap, fugitive red drawn from several tropical heartwoods, traded in such quantity that Brazil is named after the tree rather than the tree after the country.