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The Dark Secret Behind How Your Favorite Makeup Products Was Made

The Untold Truth About Your Favorite Makeup Products

Makeup and other cosmetics have become an indispensible part of our daily lives. Today, cosmetic products such as highlighters and eye shadows are widely used and popular for their ‘glow.’ However, many people are unaware of what goes on behind the scenes of such products.

Mica can be found in everyday cosmetics ranging from nail polish to lipstick.

What is Mica?

Mica is an iridescent silicate mineral with a layered structure. It has a wide range of properties and applications. It is an excellent industrial insulation material due to its high thermal resistance.

It is commonly found mixed with granite or rocks like crystals and is well-known for its use in everyday products such as paint, electronics, and cosmetics.

Its gleaming, glittery appearance makes it ideal for cosmetics. They have reflective properties, allowing mineral foundations to have a shimmery effect.

Mica splittings are mined and processed into a variety of mica products. This process yields built-up mica and sheet mica, both of which have a wide range of applications in a variety of settings.

Mining Mica in India

The mining of mica is a negative aspect of the mineral. India is a major supplier of mica to the world. India alone accounts for a significant portion of the world’s export of mica splitting and block mica.

The Indian state of Jharkhand has the world’s largest deposits of mica, but the region’s poverty has resulted in widespread child labor in its mining. The local Santhal tribal population is entirely reliant on mica mining for a living. Children as young as five years old are working in mines to obtain the mineral.

According to The Guardian, even beauty brands committed to cleaning up their mica supply chains struggled in July 2016 due to the difficulty in tracing the mineral’s true origins.

Mica is purchased through intermediaries, which results in the mixing of legal and illegal mica, which is then sold to processing companies, while poor social conditions exacerbate the problem.

The raw material excavated by the children will be collected by a broker, who will then sell it to an exporter, who will then deliver it to a manufacturer, most likely in China. It is then milled into fine, pearly pigment, which international beauty companies purchase to add a reflective finish to eyeshadow, blush, lipstick, and other products.

A couple was buried and killed in August 2019 when a mica mine collapsed in the Santganwa area of Koderma district, where the husband and wife were collecting mica scrap. Six children died in mica mines over a three-month period in 2016.

A report, ‘Child labor in mica mines of Koderma & Giridih districts of Jharkhand,’ by Ranchi-based non-profit, Child in Need Institute, found 45 known deaths due to mica mine accidents over a five-year period. Other unconfirmed reports claim that 10–20 people are killed each month in mica tunnel collapses.

Although mica mining is officially prohibited in Jharkhand, local villagers continue to descend into mines in search of mica scrap in the absence of any other source of income.