After my post about my favourite mascaras I began thinking about how you should be replacing your makeup after a certain amount of time and one of the things that you should apparently be replacing quite frequently is your mascara.
Typically, you should be replacing your mascaras after six months of owning them. And if you're like me you may have thought this was a money-making scam on behalf of the cosmetic companies to keep you coming back. But, it's actually more of a health and safety thing. If you keep something that you're using on your eyes (or your face/body) for a long time, after each use the bacteria from the air, your eyes and anything else it comes into contact with is making its way back into that tube.
This sounds kinda scary, but there are some things that you can actively do to keep this from happening so soon, so that instead of updating it every 6 months you can wait a little longer. Besides, Mascaras do have a tendency to begin to dry up after around 6 months, and dry, clumpy mascara? not me!
- Don't share mascaras -If you don't share your mascara with your best friend/sister/mum etc you're reducing the amount of bacteria that's entering your mascara tube. And you should be wary about hygiene practices when it comes to mascara and makeup in general as well. Unless you're taking the correct precautionary steps when it comes to sharing makeup - just don't do it.
- Always make sure you screw your lid back on tight, to prevent it drying up. If you don't screw the lid back on tight you could be feeding the mascara the air it needs for the bacteria to grow. And not only that, leaving it to get an air supply will dry it out even quicker.
- Never put water in your mascara tube. For one, the formula is made with a very particular amount of ingredients, you may think that adding water to it will maybe 'fix' dried mascara, but it wont. It actually will increase the bacteria in the tube and your chance of getting an eye infection increases.
- And as always, remember to take your eye makeup off before you go to sleep at night. Leaving your makeup on over night can clog your pores and create unsightly and annoying spots, and it gives your mascara a chance to flake heavily, drop into your eye and cause eye infections.
So, as you can see there are some things you can do to prevent any infections from happening, but of course do so with caution because it's still a possibility. I also look at the '6 month rule' as a good reason to try out different mascaras which leave me with plenty of options to buy new things and find new products to love.
Do you have a favourite Mascara?
Sammie xx
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