Ingredients beginning with S
Every ingredient in the dictionary filed under S — with its identifiers, its origin, and what it actually does.
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Shellac
SHELLAC
Shellac is a resin secreted by a scale insect on trees in India and South-East Asia; in cosmetics it is a film former, the thing that makes a mascara hold a curl and a nail lacquer set hard and glossy.
Squalane
SQUALANE
The fully hydrogenated form of squalene, a hydrocarbon the human body makes on its way to cholesterol and secretes in sebum; saturating it removes the six double bonds that let the parent go rancid.
Stibnite (Antimony Kohl)
Stibnite is antimony trisulphide, the grey ore that gave the element its symbol, Sb, and the mineral that later tradition credits, mostly wrongly, as the basis of ancient Egyptian kohl.