Happy Wednesday, ladies! How’s the week treating you so far?
This week’s poll actually reveals something embarrassing about myself, so before you read on, here’s the question: what do you do with expired beauty products?
Do you know that almost every skincare product comes with a certain use-by-date logo? Go check your moisturiser, eye cream, etc. It should contain a picture of a jar with a semi-opened lid, with a number next to the letter M, which stands for “Months”. This means that from the moment you open that jar, bottle, tube, etc, you should discard it after a certain number of months.
Now for me, I totally suck at throwing out expired products. It’s mainly because I buy so many different kinds of products, so the original ones hardly finish before its expiry date. And after spending a bomb on them, I just don’t have the heart to chuck ’em. I still use some of them even though it’s (and don’t you tell anyone about this) several months past its expiry date.
I know, I know, I shouldn’t be doing that. Especially when it comes to eye cream. Anything that goes near the eye should be thrown out if it’s past its expiry date. Which reminds me, it’s time to chuck the Clinique All About Eyes, even though I have a little of it left. Oh be still my heart.
Anyways, my total negligence on chucking expired products aside, a good way to know when the expiry date of a product is, stick a label onto the jar, tube, etc when you begin using it. Write down the date of opening of the product to use. This way, you’d be able to know when you should chuck it.
This goes for makeup as well. Some companies print the use-by logo on their makeup, but a lot don’t. Fabuless Beauty tell you the approximate shelf life of specific makeup products, and the way she labels her makeup. Of course, if your lippies are starting to smell funky, or your mascara weirdly goopy even before the expiry date, it’s time to use your common sense and throw those out.
What about you? Do you keep using expired beauty products? Even if it’s only a few months past its expiry date? Be honest now 😉
The poll closes in a month.