Concealers, which one will work for what problem. After application of your mineral, you can just tap it where it needs to be with your finger.

Green Concealer- is the most used concealer color of all, it helps neutralize redness, over the nose or from roseacea. It may help hide red areas from pimples, birthmarks, or scarring.

Yellow Concealer- Corrects pinky and mild red areas, from spider veins, birthmarks, works well on dark under eye circles. Helps hide moles, brightens ruddy and dull skin tones.

Peach Concealer- Corrects under eye bluish marks, or aging dark spots, hyper pigmented areas. Covers dark colored bruises.

Pink Concealer- Corrects yellow sallow toned areas, works well to correct mild greenish spots on skin. Helps cover bluish green birthmarks. Neutralizes yellow undertones, covers purple colored under eye circles.

Blue Concealer- Covers dark colored veins, bruises, helps brighten dull skin tones. Helps cover tattoos.

Hide A Pore is the special concealer to hide larger pores, or larger areas of acne prone skin, or scars. It comes in 4 colors, extra light, light, medium, dark.

This is often used at night, when you arise in the morning, just rinse it off like you would any makeup, and your pores will look smaller, and extra oily skin will be much less oily, or oil may be gone completely. It will not clog your pores, and can also be worn under your foundation for the day minerals. You only need a tiny amount to do the concealing. When it is applied, it is nearly invisible. Instructions for use shipped with each order.

Ingredients: Green tea powder, cranberry powder, rice & bamboo silks, zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, magnesium myristate, sericite, kaolin clay, iron oxides.

Sweetscents amazing formula with green tea as one healing, nourishing and moisturizing skin-protecting ingredient, combined with cranberry powder for flavonoid & antioxidant properties that may improve skin appearance, rice and bamboo silks, from the buds of the rice and bamboo plants, known for their moisturizing, skin protecting, toning & healing properties with zinc oxide, used for centuries to help heal and protect the skin, minimizes the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, titanium dioxide, magnesium myristate, magnesium stearate, amorphous silica, boron nitride & iron oxides.

This fabulous concealer or foundation provides the perfect base for any cosmetic while pampering the skin, and aids in hiding skin imperfections, & is not drying to the most gentle skin. It goes on matte and stays matte all day. This mineral is made in light tone for the fair-skinned person to medium and tan skin tones, & works with all skin types. Works well for even sensitive skin. Instructions for use shipped with each order.

Apply this silky powder with a makeup brush, right after moisturizing your skin, or mix it into a few drops of moisturizer, it takes only a tiny amount of the powder. Apply your other minerals over the top of this, and you are ready for the day.

Ingredients: Green tea powder, cranberry powder, rice & bamboo silks, zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, magnesium myristate, amorphous silica, iron oxides.

You certainly can use the micas for coloring M&P, that’s ALL I use! The best results with micas are used in a clear base, as mica works on the light refracting off of the mica minerals to generate the color…it will sort to some degree in opaque soaps, it will color it, but not give off that eye catching WOW look that you get in the clear. No, the colors don’t bleed, and they are pretty sturdy too under the lights, where the other colorings just fade out.

How much you use is a totally personal thing I think. I can tell you how to make the soaps I make. And I  have made several hundred a week, as I sell them like they are going out of style.

We formulate all our soap bases with the oils used in massage, the sweet almond, vitamin E, evening primrose, and shea butter. They really moisturize the skin. All the soaps you see pictured there are made from our clear soap base.

How I do it is to cut off how ever much of the base I want to work with and microwave it untill its melted. Some folks prefer to melt the soap base on the stove top in a double boiler, so whatever you prefer will work.

I then scent it with my fragrance oil, (I use about 1/2¼ of an ounce for 2# of the soap base) and stir it in well into the clear base. If you get a cloudy look to your soap base when you add the fragrance oil, just keep stirring, and it will incorporate into the soap, and then clear up.

I pour my molds  about 3/4 of the way full of the clear, scented base. Now I wait till the soap in the molds is cool enough to stick your pinky finger in without having it to hot…then, I just stick in my “mica curls”, (these are made with my trusty potato peeler, just sliced directly off  the plain M&P soap piece before it was melted down, I peel about 2 cups of the curls, throw them into a plastic bag, and put about 1/4 to 1/3 teaspoon of any color mica I want them to be, then seal the top, and shake it for a few seconds, and wellla, soap curls !

You can also use imbeds if you want to, say hearts, or whatever and do the same thing with the mica and a plastic bag, and that works too.

If you get some bubbles in the soap base when you pour it, just spritz it with the plain isopropyl alcohol you get at the grocery store for 50 cents a pint. and it immediately pops the bubbles.

When the soap cools pretty much, I nuke again a small amount of clear base, and when it is out, I put in any color of mica I want the back to be, say shimmering gold..to about 2 cups of melted base, I would add about 1/2 a teaspoon of the gold mica, and stir it…and then scent it, and spray the dickens out of your cooled soaps still in the mold with the alcohol so the back will adhere to the soap, and then immediately pour the melted gold (or whatever color you want) back on them, (the alcohol spray is what makes the hot soap adhere to the cooled soap already in the mold). When the back is then cool, flip them over and pop out your pretty soap!

This way, you use very little mica, and they look gorgeous, If you want though, you can just color the whole soap base with mica, and pour them in a solid color, or you can do some swirling with micas too.

I have received some great information from one of our customers, Cheryl, whom I owe big for this tip on getting the colors that normally fade out in melt and pour soaps, make it hold the wonderful colors we all love Cheryl sells her soaps at a shop with lots of windows with bright sunshine streaming in. Here is what she has said, and with her permission I have reprinted it here.

I was delighted to find the inhibitor because I  love the sapphires & diamonds which fades pretty quickly in bright sun.  The inhibitor is specially formulated for bath and body products, and was sold by a company that sells ingredients for both bath and body + candles.  I used 1 teaspoon inhibitor per pound in melt and pour, which is really all I use the mica for – I love how it looks in clear soaps.  (So I am afraid that I can’t testify for the inhibitor in CP or another process.)  The inhibitor didn’t make a noticeable difference in terms of foam or product behavior.

By Joan Trebilcock, RN

All our micas are all cosmetic grades. The US Government regulates all these regulations.

To use the micas or glitters in lotions, hair gels, body gels,  or any combination of ingredients that are a thick liquid.. To use mica in lotions (The most economical), simply put the desired amount of lotion, gels etc. in a plastic bag, say to make 16 oz. of lotion, pour the lotion into a bag, then scent it if you want, then add about ½ of a teaspoon of mica.. (the whites and golds seem to be the prettiest), If you prefer more color, or more sparkle look, simply add more mica, and squish the mixture together until you reach the desired effect of sparkle. Then snip off a tiny corner of the bag, and squeeze the product into your bottles, or whatever you are using. This way, you don’t waste product down the sides of your container.

To use mica in the bath salts

First, make your bath salt base, (and put into a large plastic bag)..say from sea salts,  Epsom salt, baking soda, or whatever recipe you use, then add the fragrance and shake well to blend the fragrance into the salt.  I then divide the salts into 2 plastic bags, and in 1 of the bags, say if you have 3 cups of bath salts, put about half of 1 teaspoon of mica in it, (you can use more or less mica to give it color or your desired effect), seal the bag, and shake well to disperse the color and or sparkle of the mica.  In the 2nd bag, which also has been scented, I put a whiteish color mica..say diamond cluster, or our snowflake color, and shake well to coat the bath salt crystals, and then, I will pour the 2 bags together in 1 bag, and shake only 2 or 3 times, to incorporate the first and second color.. if you over blend the 2, it will give a lighter effect of your first bag of color. You are then ready to put into your bath salt tubes, or jars, or whatever container you are using.

To use micas in cold process soaps… what works, and what doesn’t.

The colors of mica we carry that either fades out entirely or will mutate are:Dark Blue, Cloud blue, royal peacock, ocean blue, blue pearl, peacock pearl. Carmine red,  Old fashioned Rose.Majestic Green, Jade Green, Teal, Teal Pearl, Green Pearl. Lavender Shimmer, amethyst shimmer, passionate pink, iridescent violet, magenta Sparkle,  Purple Haze Shimmer, Pink Pearl. Our beautiful cactus blossom holds up very well in cold process soapmaking.

Mica that work in cold process soap.

White colors that work: All white colors, Transparent white, Snowflake, White Gold, Diamond Cluster, Pearl Flake, All Sparkle, Angel Wings Glimmer, City Lights Evening Star.

Red and purple Green tones

Burgundy Shimmer comes out a pretty plum color medium shade, Purple Shimmer turns a beautiful violet, Plum Shimmer turns out a light plum color, Cactus Blossom remains a beautiful rose color, Merlot Glimmer turns out a pretty light wine color, Plum Pearl and purple pearl turn  out light colors. Egyptian Green comes out a pretty dark green.

Brown & Metallic Tones that work

Autumn Masterpiece, Brown Pearl, Tigers Eye, Cappuccino Shimmer, Bronze Shimmer, 24 Karat Gold, Shimmering Gold, Chrome Shimmer, Pewter Shimmer, Golden Satin, Bronze Pearl, Copper Pearl.If you use the micas in crock-pot process, hot process, oven process, and add the micas the very last thing before pouring into the mold, the micas will hold up well, as the lye has saponified.