Beauty Alert! Blog » Beauty alert! in the LA Times http://beautyalert.biz/blog BEAUTY IS TIMELESS. BEAUTY PRODUCTS ARE NOT. Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:05:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Mascara and Your Eye Health http://beautyalert.biz/blog/mascara-and-your-eye-health/ http://beautyalert.biz/blog/mascara-and-your-eye-health/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:03:04 +0000 Stacya http://beautyalert.biz/blog/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, so feel free to toss it sooner! But don’t hold onto your mascara, you are taking a big chance with your eye health. This is not a marketing strategy. The build up of bacteria in a product that you put near your eye can lead to eye infection.

*Optometry: Journal of the American Optometric Association, “Microbial contamination associated with mascara use,” October 2008.

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