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After buying good quality products, don’t forget to clean up your dressing table very now and then, to replace old products with new. Read the manufacturing data on the packaging and buy the product within six months of the date of manufacture.smell the products at intervals in your home. If anything appears off throw it away all, your skin is more valuable than any product.
Dumping your fat cosmetic can be traumatic particularly if it’s very expensive and hardly used but be strong and keep changing your products every six to seven months.
MASCARA
It should be replaced every three months. It is the most common cause of eye infection.
Signs of spoilage: dry clumps and glazing. The brush does not transfer the product evenly.
EYELINER
Liquid eyeliner will last for six to twelve months .Eyeliners comes in contact with eye fluids causing flaking.
Signs of spoilage the liquid eyeliner will dry out and there is a change in smell.
EYEPENCIL
An eye pencil has a shelf life of a year .it gathers dust easily.
Signs of spoilage it feels crumbly and dusty. There is a direct change in the way it smells.
LIPSTICK
A lipstick can last for a year or two but liquid lipstick should not be used more than a year after this date of manufacture.
Signs of spoilage: Melting, rancid smell, difficulty in application, fading color, and oil droplets form lipstick looks dull.
Problem to skin: dry on swollen lips, irritation around mount, skin becomes sensitive can transfer cold sores.
PRESSED POWDER
A pressed powder lasts a little more than a year .loose powder has a life of two years.
Signs of spoilage crumbling, glaze on top, bad odor in pressed odour. Loose powder becomes crumbs.
Problem to skin: skin irritation and blocked pores leading to white heads and black heads. Loose powder can cause rashes, infections and blocked pores.
FOUNDATION
It lasts six months to a year. A jar lasts for three to six months.
Signs of spoilage the ingredients separate water and oil separate texture changes and so does its color and smell.
BLUSH
A powder blush lasts a year; a cream blush should be used with in the six months.
Signs of spoilage: powder blush will have a glazed layer on top, crumbling, change of color.
MOISTURISER
It lasts for one to three years.
Signs of spoilage separation of oil and water faded color and change of smell.
TONER
Life span of three years
Signs of spoilage: cloudiness, solids at bottom of bottle and change of smell.
NAIL POLISH
Use it within three months to six months, as every time it is opened the solvent separate out.
Problem to skin: it can cause yellowishness of nails. Do not add thinner to make it liquid as this unbalances the preservatives and can lead to infection.
There are some signs that show its time to be self disciplinarian and show your ‘waste’ make up its right place –the dustbin.
Tags :eye cosmetics, infection, Lipstick, Make-Up, side effectsOne Response to “FINISHING TOUCH”
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zeeol Says:
Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:13 amvery good article