Improving Your Matte Lip Base

If your Lip Matte base feels heavy, pills, and settles into lip lines, you can improve its texture, spreadability, and finish by incorporating certain ingredients. These issues often arise from the formulation's balance of pigments, fillers, and emollients.

Ingredients that can help modify the texture and provide slip include Silicone Elastomers and lightweight silicones.

Recommended ingredients to address these problems are:

• Silicone Elastomer Powder: This powder helps adjust the texture to be soft, smooth, and easy to spread. It can blur lip lines, preventing the product from settling into them, and provides a comfortable matte feel. It can also help absorb excess oil.
• Caprylyl Methicone: A very lightweight, fast-evaporating silicone that significantly improves the slip and spreadability of the lip product. It helps reduce the heavy or sticky feeling.
• Oil-Fix™ S (Silicone Gelling, Silica Dimethyl Silylate): While primarily a gelling agent for silicones and oils, it refines texture, provides a matte finish, and can help stabilize the formula, potentially reducing pilling.
• SiliGel Aqua (Silicone Elastomer / Water Disperse): A water-dispersible silicone elastomer gel that gives a soft, smooth, light, non-sticky feel and a soft matte look. It's suitable for formulas containing water and helps improve spreadability and comfort.

Choosing which ingredient(s) to add depends on the composition of your current lip matte base and the desired outcome. It's important to test small amounts first before scaling up.

Generally, adding Silicone Elastomer Powder or Caprylyl Methicone is effective for addressing heaviness, difficulty spreading, and settling into lines. Oil-Fix™ S and SiliGel Aqua can further enhance texture, mattifying effect, and formula stability.