Ingredients beginning with K
Every ingredient in the dictionary filed under K — with its identifiers, its origin, and what it actually does.
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Kaolin
KAOLIN
A white aluminium-silicate clay named after the hill near Jingdezhen where it was dug for porcelain; in cosmetics it mattifies by absorbing oil rather than by covering it.
Kermes
The scarlet of the Mediterranean world before American cochineal: a red dye taken from the dried females of a scale insect that lives on the kermes oak.