Colour and minerals
Carbon Black and Charcoal Powder
Carbon black, listed as Black 2 or CI 77266, is almost pure carbon, made as a fine soot. Charcoal powder is carbon too, usually made by charring plant material such as wood or coconut shell.
- On a list as
- Black 2 (CI 77266) · Charcoal Powder
- What it does
- Black pigment
- Where it comes from
- Carbon: from burnt hydrocarbons, or plant charcoal
- Vegan?
- Yes
Why it’s in a formula
Both are pigments here: they make a mascara or eyeliner a true, deep black, deeper than black iron oxide alone.
- Bone black, a different pigment made from charred animal bone, is listed as CI 77267. None of our lists names it.
Where you’ll find it at Divina
Read from each piece’s published ingredient list. 2 pieces.
Questions
Is carbon black safe in mascara?
Cosmetic carbon black is permitted in the EU and US under purity rules that limit impurities. It is used in small amounts as a pigment.
Is the charcoal in an eyeliner there for skin?
No. In an eyeliner, charcoal powder is a black pigment, there for colour.
How we know: every ingredient list on this site is the manufacturer’s own, read piece by piece and shade by shade, and the pieces above are worked out from those lists each time the site is built. Ingredient names and functions follow the EU’s CosIng database. This page describes cosmetic ingredients; it isn’t medical advice.
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