Handle those store makeup testers with care

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You know it is a common constitution, a no-no, and for good reason.

"If a woman has a lip cut lip and ready for someone who has a cold sore, they will get a cold sore. You can pass herpes [herpes], conjunctivitis] [pink eye and all sorts of things by sharing makeup, "says Dr. Zein Obagi, a dermatologist in Beverly Hills.
Now, imagine sharing your makeup with a few thousand or so of your closest friends when tester probes makeup in stores. If you do not practice safe hygiene, or insist that workers behind the counter of good hygiene practices when applying makeup on your skin, it can quickly become ugly over there.

Dr. Elizabeth Brooks, a professor of biology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, conducted a study often cited two-year public tester makeup when she was with Rowan University in New Jersey five years ago. "We want the department stores, specialty stores, pharmacies – went everywhere," she said. Their researchers found staphylococcus, streptococcus bacteria and E. coli same makeup testers. "Where do you see the bacterium E. coli, you should E. coli corresponds feces, ‘" says Brooks. "It is, someone went to the bathroom, not wash their hands and fingers in moisturizer." Brooks says that when the make-up on Saturday – the day when tested with the most traffic cosmetic counters – percentage of foundation makeup was 100%.

The actions of the FDA. In its recommendations for the safety of cosmetics, the agency warned against sharing makeup, and said: "Never share or swap eye cosmetics – not even can be dangerous for you, with your best friend. Germs at another person. The risk of contamination may be even higher than the "testers" of retail, where a number of people with the same sample are produced. "

But there are solutions. may, for example, if you try to Lotions, please use the samples that people have not put their fingers in, but sampling from a pot, try to squeeze a lotion instead.

You can also try cleaning the surface of the tester makeup with a tissue or cloth soaked in alcohol before makeup. If you try, lipstick, debridement with a disposable applicator. And never with disposable applicators or cotton swabs, community makeup mac makeup brushes. "If the mac makeup brush is made from animal hair, bacteria can grow in real hair and more difficult to clean," says Brooks. You can also request a specific tester.

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