What is foundation makeup made of?
Foundation makeup takes 8 things directly, among them titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, mica, water, pigment and vegetable oil. Trace them back and you pass 23 made things on the way to 22 raw materials.
How foundation makeup is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 22 raw materials
- Mica goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Titanium ore through titanium dioxide
- Air through zinc oxide
- Iron ore through pigment
- Sulfur through pigment
- Soybeans through vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through vegetable oil
- Clay through vegetable oil
- Silica sand through silicone
- Oranges through perfume
- Vanilla pods through perfume
- Rock salt through titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Coal through titanium dioxide, coke
- Zinc ore through zinc oxide, zinc
- Crude oil through pigment, carbon black
- Quartz through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Natural gas through silicone, methanol
- Corn through perfume, ethanol
- Sugarcane through perfume, ethanol
- Sugar beet through perfume, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 17 things
Metals 2
Chemicals and fuels 12
ChlorineOxygen gasSulfuric acidCarbon blackHexaneMethanolHydrochloric acidEthanolHydrogenCharcoalEthyleneNaphtha
Electronics 1
Food 2
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.