Instructions for viewing the shelf life of cosmetics

For women, buying two or three makeup products is no wonder. In addition, for some girls, every day almost impossible to lack makeup can step out to meet and meet. However, little is known about most of these make-up items, when the lid is opened, the lifespan of the actual product is "not extended" as women often think. Especially, for products imported from abroad.

So how to know the shelf life of products as well as help protect the use of cosmetics. Please join us to find out the article to see the expiry date of cosmetics later.

Shelf life of common cosmetics.

1. Term of using common cosmetics

1. Mascara : Is the most popular and used beauty tool. But its lifespan is only about 3 months after opening the lid for use. This type of product is easy to absorb bacteria due to high humidity, so be careful to preserve, tighten the cap after use and limit the wand up and down many times.
2. Lipstick : English name or Lipstick call. This type is valid for about 2 years after the stamp has been used. The common way of preserving unused lipsticks is to put it in the refrigerator, so the lipstick is kept longer. Normally, if you smell a lipstick that smells bad, then buy another lipstick.

Son Lip gloss: Shelf life from 6 months to 12 months.
Lip Lip liner: Shelf life about 3 years.

1. Blush : This is called Blush . Powdered powders (Power Blush) are usually used for only 2 years. For blush, cream (Cream Blush) lasts from 12 months to 18 months. When using these pastels, you should buy new products, do not regret money but make your face less beautiful.
2. Perfume (Perfume) : Popular and popular products of women. In case you store in a dry place, you can use it from 2 years to 3 years.
3. Eye shadow : The normal general life of eyeshadow is about 2 years. For powdered eyeshadow (Power Eye shadow) , it is about 2 years. With Cream Eye shadow , only 6 months to 12 months.

1. Foundation:

The powder foundation can be used for 2 to 3 years.
Liquid or stick foundation is only available for 12 months.
Water-based foundation also has a shelf life of 12 months. You can add a few drops of alcohol-free to the chalk to use exactly one year for this chalk.
Oil-based foundation with an expiry date of about 18 months.

1. Sun Block Lotion: The shelf life is only 3 months to 6 months. If you rarely use it, you should only buy a small bottle, store in a dry place and sunshine white.
2. Lotion (Facical Moisturizer) : Shelf life 6 months to 1 year.
3. Concealer : Shelf life is 1 year.
4. Nail Polish (Nail Polish) : Nail polishes from the opening are not condensed for 4 to 12 months.
5. Eyeliner, lip and liner : Usually only used for 2 years to 3 years. Liquid eye liner only lasts for 3 months.
6. Creams with names such as Cream For Face, Throat, Hand, Body: Shelf life is about 6 months from the time of opening the product cover. These creams are susceptible to bacterial infection and change over time, so be careful with its shelf life.

2. For foreign cosmetics

To avoid buying the wrong products and not having to neglect the expiry dates of imported products. We will share with you some tips to identify the cosmetics and shelf life of cosmetics before you decide to buy.

Section for expiry date of foreign cosmetics.

1. For most cosmetics imported from the United States, there is a category of "Shelf life after opening the lid" symbolized as PAO (short for Period After Opening) . Skin care products, foundation, primers, mascara . will specify the expiry date after opening the product cover. You can find information on packaging with the letter M (abbreviated Month) . If you record 12M = 12 months = 1 year. In addition to products that do not contain PAO, the normal shelf life will be 3 years.
2. For products with a shelf life of less than 30 months, the packaging will specify the expiry date with common words such as " Use by" or "Best by" , or "Exp" (= Expiration date).
3. For products with a shelf life of over 30 months, the shelf life is not recorded. Therefore, you must check the batch code of the package.Batch code will include manufacturer information + month and year of manufacture.

3. Read the product barcode for the origin and date of manufacture

How to read product barcodes.

1. It is often difficult to read bar codes to find the origin of the product. But most of the bar code is 2 - the first 3 digits in the bar code are national conventions . The UK is conceived as 50, Vietnam is 893. The rest is mostly business code and commodity code.
2. Product barcode sets different symbols of light and short bars. There are two popular barcode groups, EAN-13 and EAN-8 , which are mainly European and Asian barcode groups . This group has bar code height standards ranging from 21.64mm to 26.66mm. And length from 26.73mm to 37.29mm.
3. In addition, there are goods products whose codes are assembled on 13 digits will go with bar codes without height and length. For example, mobile phone products, long codes and bar codes do not follow the above altitude principle. Furthermore, mobile phones with up to 15 digits whose barcode height is less than 10mm, the barcode symbol will paste inside the device to ensure convenience for businesses and consumers.