🍸 Makeup & Cocktails® Ingredient Glossary

🍸 Makeup & Cocktails® Ingredient Glossary

Because clean can still be fun, flirty, and fabulous.

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🌿 Naturally Derived Ingredients

Straight from the earth to your vanity—these are the mineral and plant-based goodies that make your makeup glide, glow, and stay all day.

💫 Mica – The shimmer queen. Gives that soft sparkle and lit-from-within glow.

💫 Talc – Keeps things smooth and shine-free (don’t worry—cosmetic grade only).

💫 Silica – Helps blur and mattify for that filter-skin finish.

💫 Squalane (plant-derived) – A lightweight hydrator from sugarcane or olives.

💫 Magnesium Stearate – Helps your pigments play nice and blend beautifully.

💫 Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891) – Natural white mineral pigment.

💫 Iron Oxides (CI 77491, 77492, 77499) – Give depth, warmth, and dimension.

💫 Ultramarines (CI 77007) – Rich blue/purple mineral tones.

💫 Chromium Oxides (CI 77288, 77289) – Earthy green mineral pigments.

💫 Manganese Violet (CI 77742) – Dreamy lilac-purple mineral color.

🥂 Category: Naturally derived

✨ Clean status: Always cruelty-free, always mineral-safe

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⚗️ Lab-Created But Lovely

These beauties are made in a lab but loved by your skin. They keep your products silky, blendable, and long-wearing without clogging pores or using harsh additives.

🍹 Dimethicone – Smooth-as-glass finish; keeps makeup fresh all day.

🍹 Isopropyl Palmitate – Lightweight texture made from plant oils.

🍹 Pentaerythrityl Tetraisostearate – Locks in moisture for that skin-like feel.

🍹 Diisostearyl Malate – Adds a buttery, luxe glide.

🍹 Ethylhexylglycerin – A gentle preservative booster (plant-based origin).

🍹 Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E) – The antioxidant wing-woman—helps protect your glow.

🍸 Category: Synthetic but safe

✨ Clean status: 100% vegan-friendly & non-toxic

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🧴 Preservatives That Protect the Party

Because no one likes spoiled cocktails—or spoiled cosmetics. These ingredients keep your products fresh and bacteria-free.

🧊 Phenoxyethanol – A paraben-free preservative used safely in clean formulas (under 1%).

🍾 Category: Synthetic preservative

✨ Clean status: Approved by clean-beauty standards worldwide

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💕 Our Promise

Makeup & Cocktails® products are formulated to be cruelty-free, paraben-free, and always skin-loving.

We believe “clean” shouldn’t mean boring—it should mean confident, conscious, and a little bit cheeky.