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Talc

A fine-grained white, greenish, or gray mineral, Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂, having a soft soapy feel and used in talcum and face powder, as a paper coating, and as a filler for paint and plastics.

Usually ground talc makes talcum powder.

Material Notes:
Talc is a hydrated magnesium silicate mineral.

Property values are typical of naturally occurring talc.

Actual property values will vary from sample to sample.

The massive variety (soapstone, a less precise name for talc ) is used for sinks, table tops, vanity tops, etc.

Soapstone found a use in Babylonian days when signature cylinder seals were often carved from it.

The Egyptians also used it as a base for some of their blue faience figurines, which were then fired to fuse the glaze.

California Indians also used talc as sculpture material.

Talc is in the family of magnesium silicates.

Used in a powdered form, talc is highly absorbent and helps cut down on friction on the skin that may cause skin irritation.

People generally associate talcum powder with babies, though it has a number of other handy uses around the house.

See more details of How to Use Talcum Powder Around the House.

Talc has a greasy feel and a translucent, soapy look.

Talc is very useful, and not just because it can be ground into talcum powder—it's a common filler in paints, rubber and plastics too.

Other less precise names for talc are steatite or soapstone, but those are rocks containing impure talc rather than the pure mineral.

In the cosmetics field, talc is one of the most important ingredients, and it has been using in many kinds of cosmetics for a long time.

However, it does not show the good point from the viewpoint of makeup effect.

The titanium coating talc showed light interference color development while having the fluent touch.

Talc coated with titanium dioxide is useful as the cosmetics material, which is newer because concealment improves.

Talc is found in a wide variety of consumer products ranging from home and garden pesticides to antacids.

However, the products most widely used and that pose the most serious health risks are body powders.

Talc is the main ingredient in baby powder, medicated powders, perfumed powders and designer perfumed body powders.

Because talc is resistant to moisture, it is also used by the pharmaceutical industry to manufacture medications and is a listed ingredient of some antacids.

Talc is the principal ingredient home and garden pesticides and flea and tick powders.

Talc is used in smaller quantities in deodorants, chalk, crayons, textiles, soap, insulating materials, paints, asphalt filler, paper, and in food processing.

Talc is used on babies because it absorbs unpleasant moisture.

Clearly, dusting with talcum powder endangers an infant's lungs at the prospect of inhalation.

Exposing children to this carcinogen is unnecessary and dangerous.

The feeling from many dermatologists is that there isn't much advantage of powders as compared to ointments when it comes to preventing and treating diaper rash(a kind of skin disease).

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