Database/Skin Conditioning/Titanium Nitride
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Titanium Nitride natural?

Yes. Titanium is mineral-origin like TiO2; nitrogen comes from air, not a petrochemical feedstock, so the compound carries no petroleum mass.

INCI nameTitanium Nitride
CAS25583-20-4
FormulaNTi · 61.874 Da
FunctionSkin Conditioning
FeedstockProduced by nitriding titanium dioxide or titanium tetrachloride…

How we scored it

Ti (mineral) + N (atmospheric N2, non-petrochemical); treated analogously to titanium dioxide under ISO 16128 mineral convention → 1.0.
What counts. ISO 16128-2 scores the atoms that remain in the final ingredient. Reagents, solvents, catalysts and protecting groups used during manufacture leave no mass behind and are not counted.

Where it comes from

Produced by nitriding titanium dioxide or titanium tetrachloride with nitrogen gas at high temperature. No organic/petrochemical route is involved.

In plain English

A mineral-based pigment giving a golden shimmer, made from titanium and nitrogen gas. Like titanium dioxide, its titanium comes from mined ore rather than petrochemicals.

Structure

2D structure of Titanium Nitride

azanylidynetitanium

PubChem CID 93091 ↗

References

  1. 1ISO 16128-1:2016 and ISO 16128-2:2017 — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products. ISO, Geneva.
  2. 2Titanium Nitride. PubChem CID 93091. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
  3. 3TITANIUM NITRIDE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  4. 4TITANIUM NITRIDE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=TITANIUM%20NITRIDE