What is in mascara?

Answer 1

well when i went to out door ed my naturalist told me mascara was made of bat poop. Guanine is a product that was once extracted from bat guano--they make it synthetically now--that gives a pearly look to all sorts of things. Mascara contains several basic classes of ingredient: colorants to make your lashes pretty film formers to keep it on your lashes waxes to make your lashes thick various other chemicals to keep it liquid, kill germs and all sorts of other useful things.

Answer 2

I am doing a project on this, and have found some useful sites: check them out!

absolute astronomy: mascara

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20050316/Feature1.asp

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7537753/description.html

http://www.optimaspecialty.com/itm00005.htm

http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Co-Di/Cosmetic-Chemistry.htm

http://www.joannelovesscience.com/science_beauty.html

Answer 3

If your want black then carbon black as your pigment ingredient would be in black mascara. For shades of brown, iron oxide is contained in this makeup.

Some other ingredients are lanolin, eucalyptus oil, mineral oil, castor oil, linseed oil, or oil of turpentine. Even sesame oil may be in your mascara. Carnauba wax, beeswax, and paraffin, among others, would be the waxes in this cosmetic. Nylon fibers or rayon provide your eyelashes more length as well as volume. Sometimes, vitamins are added such as pro- vitamin B5. This is claimed to condition your lashes to soften it.