Mineral Pigments?

[Hermanam]

A very large handmade soap company lists these ingredients on their labels:

Saponified 100% food grade olive, coconut, palm, and castor oils, in a goat’s milk base, with pure essential oils and mineral pigments.

I am wondering about "mineral pigments." What exactly constitutes mineral pigments? This seems very broad.

And...I thought if you listed ANY ingredient, you needed to list them all. Does the umbreall term "mineral pigments" cover this requirement?

 

[EvilTOJ]

Mineral pigments sounds like a fancy name for colored clay.

 

[Hermanam]

I think their colors are much too vivid to be colored clay.

I know I am digressing into a label discussion (sorry, I know this is not that forum), but I thought labeling was all or nothing?

 

[shunt2011]

Oxides, ultramarines are probably being considered minerals...

 

[songwind]

"Mineral pigments" probably just means any pigment made from a mineral, as opposed to vegetable pigment (lake, madder) or animal (cochineal, bone, etc).

Oxides and ultramines as shunt2011 said. Mica. Lead, cadmium, etc (though not for soap!).