Thursday, August 5, 2010

Homemade Nail Polish

You can always made your own beauty products on your home, after posting the homemade skin cream/mask and homemade Hair Conditioners in earlier post, now i will tell you how to make a homemade nail polish. Different from earlier homemade cosmetics recipes, ingredients of this recipe are little unusual, but you can find them if you try:

Nail polish is basically a mix of different pigments and much textures in a volatile solvent, along with added film formers that aid in the durability and quality of its appearance. Recently there have been many advances in nail polish, including the use of Teflon and quick-dry materials.

Here the recipes:

What's you need is:
*PRIMARY FILM FORMER <> like nitrocellulose
*SECONDARY FILM-FORMING RESIN <> like formaldehyde
*PLASTICIZERS <> like dioctyl phthalate
*SOLVENTS AND DILUENTS <> like acetates or alcohols
*Colourants <> like organic D&C pigments
*SPECIAL FILLERS <>like titanium dioxide–coated mica flakes
*SUSPENDING AGENTS

The benefit of each components:
Nitrocellulose is typically forms the primary component in many nail polishes. It makes a nontoxic film that makes a shiny and strong material that's used as the primary film-forming agent. It causes the polish to stick well to the nail.
Special additives make various effects in combination with the pigments. Chopped aluminum, gold, and silver are added to many of today's polishes for a metallic, even neon, shine. Rayon and nylon also can be added for nail-strengthening purposes, though many companies are now using Teflon.

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