Guest guest Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 Can someone give me the lowdown on what Ferric Pyrophosphate Purified Pearls (INCI name) may be? The non-INCI name is green pearl powder. Thank you. Cyndi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 >Can someone give me the lowdown on what Ferric Pyrophosphate Purified >Pearls (INCI name) may be? The non-INCI name is green pearl powder. It does not appear in the CTFA dictionary. If you search Google, you'll get some hits. The MSDS says its hazardous. http://bulkpharm.mallinckrodt.com/_attachments/msds/FERCP.htm Maurice -------------------------------------------------------- Maurice O. Hevey Convergent Cosmetics, Inc. http://www.ConvergentCosmetics.com ------------------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 Maurice writes: I wasn't aware of that. Can you provide any literature citations, urls etc ***** The urls I would refer to are password protected - locked adobe files. I couldn't find a way around this, outside of typing the data, which I'm not certain is permitted, but at any rate is way too labor intensive. However, I believe that most can come to their own conclusions regarding the " issue " by simply examining any MSDS sheet for mica ... for instance, http://www.dar-tech.com/docs/MicaMSDS.pdf (I chose this as it was available online and the warnings are identical to the mica MSDS I receive with my cosmetic-grade micas) and though in regard to workplace safety regarding mica, this link may also prove informative: http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/1659.pdf. There are many health risks involved with mica dust exposure and many precautionary safety measures must be taken from a manufacturing stance. However, it's been noted that a growing number of small companies do not fully observe the safety measures during formulation. It wasn't long ago that small manufacturers didn't have access to " big business " ingredients. Today, more and more, they do. This is posing new liability considerations throughout the manufacturing industry. Not wanting to get into a " loose mineral " debate *again*, I will state that much of the <buzz> surrounding mica is focused on liability issues in this arena. In all industries you will find " there is a <buzz> before you see the locusts " :-) Nan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 Maurice writes: I wasn't aware of that. Can you provide any literature citations, urls etc ***** The urls I would refer to are password protected - locked adobe files. I couldn't find a way around this, outside of typing the data, which I'm not certain is permitted, but at any rate is way too labor intensive. However, I believe that most can come to their own conclusions regarding the " issue " by simply examining any MSDS sheet for mica ... for instance, http://www.dar-tech.com/docs/MicaMSDS.pdf (I chose this as it was available online and the warnings are identical to the mica MSDS I receive with my cosmetic-grade micas) and though in regard to workplace safety regarding mica, this link may also prove informative: http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/1659.pdf. There are many health risks involved with mica dust exposure and many precautionary safety measures must be taken from a manufacturing stance. However, it's been noted that a growing number of small companies do not fully observe the safety measures during formulation. It wasn't long ago that small manufacturers didn't have access to " big business " ingredients. Today, more and more, they do. This is posing new liability considerations throughout the manufacturing industry. Not wanting to get into a " loose mineral " debate *again*, I will state that much of the <buzz> surrounding mica is focused on liability issues in this arena. In all industries you will find " there is a <buzz> before you see the locusts " :-) Nan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 Maurice writes: I wasn't aware of that. Can you provide any literature citations, urls etc ***** The urls I would refer to are password protected - locked adobe files. I couldn't find a way around this, outside of typing the data, which I'm not certain is permitted, but at any rate is way too labor intensive. However, I believe that most can come to their own conclusions regarding the " issue " by simply examining any MSDS sheet for mica ... for instance, http://www.dar-tech.com/docs/MicaMSDS.pdf (I chose this as it was available online and the warnings are identical to the mica MSDS I receive with my cosmetic-grade micas) and though in regard to workplace safety regarding mica, this link may also prove informative: http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/1659.pdf. There are many health risks involved with mica dust exposure and many precautionary safety measures must be taken from a manufacturing stance. However, it's been noted that a growing number of small companies do not fully observe the safety measures during formulation. It wasn't long ago that small manufacturers didn't have access to " big business " ingredients. Today, more and more, they do. This is posing new liability considerations throughout the manufacturing industry. Not wanting to get into a " loose mineral " debate *again*, I will state that much of the <buzz> surrounding mica is focused on liability issues in this arena. In all industries you will find " there is a <buzz> before you see the locusts " :-) Nan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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