What is mascara made of?
Mascara takes 8 things directly, among them honeycomb, paraffin wax, vegetable oil, water, carbon black and pigment. Trace them back and you pass 19 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 13 raw materials
- Honeycomb goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Crude oil through carbon black
- Soybeans through vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through vegetable oil
- Clay through vegetable oil
- Air through carbon black
- Iron ore through pigment
- Sulfur through pigment
- Natural gas through paraffin wax, hydrogen
- Titanium ore through pigment, titanium dioxide
- Rock salt through pigment, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Coal through nylon, benzene, toluene