Ny
Nylon-12
Nylon-12
Tiny round particles that soak up surface oil, add silky slip, and blur the look of texture in powders and primers.
What it does
Its tiny round particles soak up surface oil, add a soft, silky slip and blur the look of texture in powders and primers. It’s nylon made into a fine powder. It’s there for texture, not to change your skin.
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2014) say nylons are used in products mostly to add bulk and make a formula opaque. Nylon-12 is used at up to 35%, in face powders. These large molecules aren’t likely to pass through skin, and a patch test of a face powder with 35% nylon-12 on 221 people found no irritation or allergy. They judged it and seven other nylons safe as used.Burnett 2014 · International Journal of Toxicology ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
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