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Please note this is a raw pigment intended to be dispersed into a liquid medium to make paints. Our raw pigments are not meant for use in cosmetics and are not cosmetic grade. Certain pigments disperse more easily than others in certain liquid mediums. For those difficult to disperse into a liquid of your choice, they will need to be ground by a muller or a mortar and pestle into the medium.
Safety note: Handle all dry pigments with care. Work slowly to avoid generating airborne dust and wear a dust mask for extra protection. Also avoid getting the dust all over your hands. Latex gloves are good at providing skin protection without "getting in the way".
BTW, here's a tip for dispersing dry pigments into a medium without the traditional (laborious) grinding/mixing. I was looking at ball mills to grind some materials for my own projects. I found that they are very expensive. It occurred to me that a rock tumbler was very similar to a ball mill, with a rotating drum containing what you want to grind finer and some ceramic media or stainless steel balls to do the actual grinding. I learned that many people are already doing this with success. Rock tumblers are much less expensive than ball mills. I tried it and it worked (after a normal period of experimentation)! Message me and I'll give you some links and the name of the particular tumbler I bought.
"Titanium dioxide [or "Titanium White"] pigments are developments of the 20th century, and because of their high hiding power, nontoxic nature, and reasonable cost, they have eclipsed other traditional white pigments. Anatase and rutile are naturally occurring mineral forms of titanium dioxide that [are]synthesized as pigments." (That quote from Natural Pigments Company).
Titanium dioxide, although a "new" white pigment, has still been around for decades. It is ubiquitous in today's world. Almost any product you see that's white has TiO2 in it. That goes for paint, cosmetics, toothpaste and other "personal care" items, and any white cast/molded plastics. It is the most opaque "whitest white" available. It replaces very toxic lead compounds that were also ubiquitous in their time. Dried paint chips of lead based white are still quite toxic. Almost every paint sold today has warnings about scrapping or sanding off old loose paint before applying new paint because of the possibility of lead based paint in old existing paint. As far as I know all lead paints are now banned. There are lead compounds still being used in ceramic glazes but they are in a form will not be absorbed by the human body (for example, glass frit which contains lead; because it is combined with glass the lead is not soluble). There are still other non-toxic whites out there (e.g. zinc oxide) but only TiO2 has such excellent hiding power (zinc oxide has "good" hiding power). TiO2 is generally the most expensive white, but when its "concentration" or "intensity" is taken into account it's a good value. One very interesting property is its ability to be formed into "interference" and "iridescent" colors (see the Wiki article below).
A brief quote about zinc oxide (also from Natural Pigments):
"Zinc oxide or more commonly known in the art world as zinc white is one of the three white pigments -- lead, titanium and zinc -- used extensively for artistic and decorative paints. Although known since ancient times, zinc white apparently was not seriously considered an artists' pigment until after the 1850s. The widest application of the pure pigment has been in watercolors, sold under the name Chinese white, but is found often in mixtures with other pigments in oil and acrylic paints."
The Wiki article on TiO2 is quite good (although technical in places; for example 8 chemical forms of TiO2 exist and inorganic nanotubes can be produced from the Anatase sourced TiO2):
"Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium (IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2. When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6 (PW6), or CI 77891.....It is mainly sourced from ilmenite ore. This is the most widespread form of titanium dioxide-bearing ore around the world. Rutile is the next most abundant and contains around 98% titanium dioxide in the ore...
The most important application areas are paints and varnishes as well as paper and plastics, which account for about 80% of the world's titanium dioxide consumption. Other pigment applications such as printing inks, fibers, rubber, cosmetic products and foodstuffs account for another 8%. The rest is used in other applications, for instance the production of technical pure titanium, glass and glass ceramics, electrical ceramics, catalysts, electric conductors and chemical intermediates. It is also in most red-coloured candy....
Titanium dioxide is the most widely used white pigment because of its brightness and very high refractive index, in which it is surpassed only by a few other materials. Approximately 4.6 million tons of pigmentary TiO2 are used annually worldwide, and this number is expected to increase as utilization continues to rise. When deposited as a thin film, its refractive index and colour make it an excellent reflective optical coating for dielectric mirrors and some gemstones like "mystic fire topaz".
TiO2 is also an effective opacifier in powder form, where it is employed as a pigment to provide whiteness and opacity to products such as paints, coatings, plastics, papers, inks, foods, medicines (i.e. pills and tablets) as well as most toothpastes. In paint, it is often referred to offhandedly as "the perfect white", "the whitest white", or other similar terms. Opacity is improved by optimal sizing of the titanium dioxide particles.
Some grades of titanium based pigments as used in sparkly paints, plastics, finishes and pearlescent cosmetics are man-made pigments whose particles have two or more layers of various oxides – often titanium dioxide, iron oxide or alumina – in order to have glittering, iridescent and or pearlescent effects similar to crushed mica or guanine-based products.
In addition to these effects a limited colour change is possible in certain formulations depending on how and at which angle the finished product is illuminated and the thickness of the oxide layer in the pigment particle; one or more colours appear by reflection while the other tones appear due to interference of the transparent titanium dioxide layers. In some products, the layer of titanium dioxide is grown in conjunction with iron oxide by calcination of titanium salts (sulfates, chlorates) around 800°C or other industrial deposition methods such as chemical vapour deposition on substrates such as mica platelets or even silicon dioxide crystal platelets of no more than 50 µm in diameter. The iridescent effect in these titanium oxide particles (which are only partly natural) is unlike the opaque effect obtained with usual ground titanium oxide pigment obtained by mining, in which case only a certain diameter of the particle is considered and the effect is due only to scattering...
In ceramic glazes titanium dioxide acts as an opacifier and seeds crystal formation...
In cosmetic and skin care products, titanium dioxide is used as a pigment, sunscreen and a thickener. It is also used as a tattoo pigment and in styptic pencils. Titanium dioxide is produced in varying particle sizes, oil and water dispersible, and in certain grades for the cosmetic industry."
One additional application that I don't see listed in the above references is its use as a polishing compound.-
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