BeAuTY: A Chemical Analysis

Ingredient Substitution Analysis

Instructions: You will research and select a substitution for the hazardous ingredient that you
selected to study in depth. Your goal is to find a safer, more environmentally and health friendly
alternative to your hazardous ingredient. You will create a Document with the same title as this
document and respond to the same questions for your ingredient substitution that you did for
your hazardous ingredient.
1. What is your hazardous ingredient?
- Titanium Dioxide
2. What is the purpose of this ingredient in your product?
- It is used for thickening, whitening, lubricating, and sunscreening.
3. What is your ingredient substitution?
- Rice Starch
4. How is your ingredient classified in your product? (coloring agent, base, bulking
agent, sunscreen or additive)
- The FDA has assessed the safety of Titanium Dioxide as a color
additive for use in foods, drugs and cosmetics and has issued regulations
approving the ingredient for these purposes.
5. Draw the general chemical structure for your ingredient substitution.

6. What is this ingredient used for in your product? Please be specific.

- Titanium dioxide is typically micronized and coated for use in
cosmetic products. The micronizing makes this somewhat heavy-feeling

ingredient easier to spread on skin, not to mention making it more cosmetically

elegant. Micronized titanium dioxide is also has much greater stability and can
provide better sun protection than non-micronized titanium dioxide.
7. Briefly list and explain the positive aspects of this ingredient substitution.
- Rice protein makes skin soft, firmer and lightens the skin tone,.so
using rice water helps in keeping skin soft.
- Damaged skin has been markedly improved by soaking the
affected area in rice starch.
- All forms of rice starch led to significant improvement in the
condition of the skin and moisture content
8. Briefly list and explain the negative aspects of this ingredient substitution.
- Most rices are processed and that causes the nutrient and fiber rich
parts (the outer two most layers to be removed.
- Absorbent substance sometimes included in products rather than
talc. It can cause allergic reactions and, because it is a food derivative, it can
support bacterial growth in pores.
9. Is your ingredient substitution restricted or prohibited by the FDA? Why or why
not?
-

No because rice starch is an inactive ingredient and The FDA

approves inactive ingredients.

10. What is the allowable concentration of your substituted ingredient in your product
in order to be considered "safe"?
- There is no specific amount for it to be safe, but while the required
amount of titanium dioxide ranges between 0.5 - 1% of any product volume, the
necsary amount approximately 5%.
11. What is your opinion of this substituted ingredient based on what you have
researched?
-

I believe Rice Starch is a better way of going rather than Titanium

dioxide because its only really big issue is its potential to being hypoallergenic to
certain peope.