Setting powders are really just a re-marketed version of tradional powder in terms of how you use them to mattify and stop shine. What I can’t figure out is whether old style powders naturally gave all the things that new style powders claim – i.e. blur, mattifying, setting and smoothing. This one is pretty simple in terms of ingredients: talc, silica and dimethicone. Silica is what gives it a silky feel and absorbs oils, ditto for dimethicone which also acts as a skin barrier, keeping moisture in. Conversely, though, dimethicone can also dry skin out. Nonetheless, this is a very standard powder recipe give or take and if you do want to damp down shine and give your base a chance to last longer, then it will absolutely do the job in a silky, light-feeling, pleasant to use way. I don’t think it has to do anything else really.
What’s more interesting about this product is that there aren’t many loose, translucent powders around if you just want to nip into Boots or Superdrug to get one. There is a big choice of concealers, foundations and mascaras in either store, but not many of these readily available to scoop into your basket. It’s £8.99 HERE.
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I love the colourless Clinique blotting powder, but it is pricey. Was going to give the essence cheap as chips one a go!!
I remember (boy I am getting old) when I could just pop into any drugstore and find a simple container of loose powder especially a translucent no color one. Now I can’t, everything is pressed or has some color to it. I also remember the standard size of a loose powder container to contain 1 oz and had the simple ingredients of talc, mineral powder and sometimes some other ingredients for oily skin like oat powder or kaolin clay. Other than that the powders worked well. I guess when dimethicone became the big thing and a great marketing product for “oil free” the powders changed. Now with the word blur or HD, silica comes into the picture. I sometimes wished the old formulas were back maybe with a different oil other than mineral, something like cacay oil. Many of the powders feel to drying nowadays.
Sorry Jane for babbling!