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Category Archives: HEALTH & BEAUTY NEWS
To Your Good Health Radio
I was recently a guest on To Your Good Health Radio show, talking about bacteria in cosmetics. Below is the podcast; give a listen! I love it that there is a show talking about all these issues, and the interesting thing is that one of the hosts is actually a chiropractor. What an adjustment.
My Niece, Corry
I visited my niece last month, and she is a walking data base for cosmetics. I actually had her help me put together a pitch for an online magazine, and they used her suggestion of MAC wipes for removing eye make-up. I hope to have her as a guest blogger someday soon! The online mag [...]
Studies on Mascara Use and Bacteria
MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION ASSOCIATED WITH MASCARA USE Pack LD, Wickham MG, Enloe RA, Hill DN. Northeastern State University Oklahoma College of Optometry, Tahlequah, Oklahoma 74464, USA. packl@nsuok.edu BACKGROUND: Microbial organisms are normally present on human eyelashes. Application of mascara to lashes has the potential to inoculate the mascara tube with microbes. This pilot study of a [...]
Dr. Diane Chiu, dermatologist
The first time I heard about Beauty Alert! Labels, I thought: “What a simple but brilliant idea…I can’t believe no one’s thought of it earlier!” As a cosmetic and medical dermatologist, I value the importance of what my patients are applying to their face and body. Every day, I advise people about what products are [...]
Mascara and Your Eye Health
Mascara, according to the FDA website, should be tossed between 2 and 4 months. Beauty Alert! says 3 months, because a medical journal* that published test results gives the actual levels of bacteria in a controlled test, and 3 seems to be the number. I have a client who gets a new mascara every month, [...]
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Tagged 3 months life of mascara, bacteria and your eyes, beauty alert, Beauty alert! in the LA Times, eye doctors, eye health and mascara, eye infections, eye safety, Inventors of Beauty Alert!, loss of eyelashes, Mascara goes bad, mascara life once opened, old make-up, pink eye, trash your old cosmetics, when to toss mascara
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Eye and Lip Pencils
Eye and lip pencils must be kept sharp. I keep seeing things online that give a “use by date” for pencils, and the truth is, if you keep them sharp and sharpen them each time you use them, it is a good guideline for keeping them clean and fresh. Also, you can clean your pencil [...]
Tagged beauty alert, Beauty Alert recommended by doctors, beauty labels, Beauty stickers, common sense make-up guidelines, cosmetics, eye pencils, Inventors of Beauty Alert!, keep eye pencils sharp, life span of cosmetics, lip pencils. beauty alerts!, Make-up, make-up bloggers, rules of thumb for life of cosmetics, sharpen pencils, Stacya and Alissa invent beauty expiration date labels
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Keeping Make-up Fresh For Travel
One of the things I love to do is buy little travel jars and transfer a little bit of my favorite foundation into them. They are 1/2 ounce, plastic jars that you can clean out and re-use, and a handy way to take make-up with you on short trips without taking the whole huge 2 [...]
Also posted in IN STACYA'S WORDS
Tagged beauty alert, Bobbie Brown, containers, keep make-up fresh, liquid Foundation, make-up expiration dates, travel size
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Sudden Back Acne
I have been a make-up artist and skin care specialist for over 17 years now, and one of the things that comes up with clients is back acne. There is a type of back acne that almost looks like a rash, and I have been perplexed by what to recommend. I had been recommending using [...]
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Tagged apple cider vinegar, back acne, back break-out, beauty alert, rash on back, rashes, skin care, Stacya Silverman
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Winter Make up shopping
This time of year in Seattle, my skin feels so dry. Even though it rains buckets here, I have had chapped lips since I moved to The Emerald City (why do they call it that? I still don’t know) from California. Today, I went to Whole Foods to shop for our Holiday dinner parties, and [...]
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Tagged beauty alert, expiration date labels, Expired Make-up, Seattle, Sweet Beauty, Whole Foods
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