Category Archives: HEALTH & BEAUTY NEWS

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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