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Mascara and Your Eye Health

By Stacya | Published February 24, 2010

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, [...]

Posted in HEALTH & BEAUTY NEWS, SPOILER ALERT! | Also 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 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 Leave a comment

Saving everything to be Frugal

By Stacya | Published February 2, 2010

I know someone who saved all her old mascara tubes. She thought it was great that she could use the old wands to separate her lashes. So she NEVER threw away her mascara. She probably had tubes that were years old, not just months old. I found this out when she had this strange eye [...]

Posted in HORROR STORIES! | Also tagged cosmetic expiration dates, expiration dates on eye make-up, irritations caused from old mascara, keeping make-up clean, lashes falling out from eye infections, old mascara, saving old mascara, throw away old make-up 1 Comment

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"A recommended way of keeping track of exactly how long any product with a shelf life has been opened. Waiting until something smells or separates might be past the time when harmful bacteria is present."
Dr. Jennifer L. Melville, M.D., M.P.H.

"A great idea to keep track of how long products have been opened, including personal products and feminine products."
Dr. Dorcas McLennan, M.D.

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