Instructions on how to distinguish the most real and fake cosmetics

With the current development society, cosmetics are indispensable in daily life, especially for women, it can help you become more beautiful , obscure the defects on the mold. face, body . create more confidence for yourself when going to the street. But along with that, the fake cosmetic products, fake goods also began to mix into the market, making the women worried and difficult to distinguish real and fake cosmetics to be able to buy the best products.

Distinguish real cosmetics, fake sensory

Cosmetic products such as lipstick, eyeshadow, blusher . you try to check real and fake products by applying a little on the skin under your hands. If the product is genuine, it will have a light fragrance, pleasant, long-lasting smell and smoothness of the chalk. If it is counterfeit when you make up, you will see that the skin has a feeling of tightness, heavy skin, a strong aroma due to fake aromatherapy with a lot of alcohol.

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Get to know real fake cosmetics by senses.

Distinguish real and fake cosmetics by barcode

Barcodes are a series of numbers that can help you distinguish between genuine, counterfeit and product origin. Therefore, each cosmetic product has its own barcode number, if any product is not available, you should consider it before buying because it is easy to be counterfeit.

How to identify the origin of the product: To know the origin of the product you only need to see the first 3 numbers. For example, the first 3 digits of the barcode are 893, then this is definitely the code of Vietnam.

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Barcodes are a series of numbers that can help you distinguish between real and fake goods.

Barcodes have 2 types: 8-digit bar codes and 13-digit bar codes. Both types of bar codes have different ways of identifying and differentiating.

  1. First you need to define the barcode, then add all the odd numbers like 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and add the even number of evenings 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12., remember is leaving the number 13 (Final number). Then you bring the total number of even rows 3 and then the total retail.
  2. Finally, take this total plus the final number 13. If the result shows that the number of the tail is 0, then the real one, but the other one is definitely fake.

Adding the result to the number of tails equal to 0 is the real one, this is the international convention named EAN and this is always true. You can use the iChecker app on the phone and Scan barcodes to give out country, company, product information quite quickly. But no matter what, buying in supermarkets, genuine stores, big dealers will help you buy the most genuine genuine cosmetics.

Identify through cosmetic packaging

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On the packaging of fake cosmetics, many types of unambiguous print presentation can be seen.

On the packaging of counterfeit cosmetics, many types of unambiguous print presentation can be seen, for example, words that are too small or too vague. Be aware of the product you intend to buy, do not be fooled by fake products that often change some words on the product name such as: Lamcome instead of Lancome; Kenzzo instead of Kenzo; Lokasta or Lacoste .

The sentences written on real cosmetics are always clear and concise. Packaging must be sturdy, made from cardboard or good quality paper. Expensive fragrances or cosmetics are not only a way to express and attract customers' attention, but also a guarantee of the authenticity of the product and a fake product that is hard to imitate. exactly the same real product.

Plastic (glass) shell of the product is glossy, beautiful, crisp and sophisticated, the logo as well as the writing on it is sharp, not smudged and ink wire, the contours, edges, edges of the plastic cover (water crystal) sharp rolled.

Try cosmetics with water

This approach is only applicable to some typical products, not everything is applicable. Here's how to identify makeup powder with water.

The device is very simple, just need a glass of clean water to check, because simply water molecules and skin epidermis molecule have quite similar points. So if you want to try real fake cosmetics, we use water the best. But note that the water here is cold water, not hot water . As long as your cosmetics can be dissolved in water, the skin can absorb it well.

How to do: Bring a bit of foundation or cream you are using and put it in the glass of water, stirring for about 20 seconds, then observe what happens. Usually, one of the following three phenomena will appear: the chalk or cream will stick on the side of the cup, float on the water or settle on the bottom of the cup.

TH 1: If your cosmetics stick around the cup of water

This phenomenon occurs because in your cosmetics contains animal oil. If the cosmetics that you buy do not have a clear origin, on the product shell does not specify the composition of production, it is very likely that it has been mixed into an amount of chemicals derived from animal oil. These substances can make your skin very beautiful and smooth, effective quickly, but as long as you stop using it, the skin will have a lot of symptoms such as swelling, or much worse without using cosmetics.

TH2: If cosmetics float on the surface of the cup

That means it contains substances made from mineral oil. Mineral oil is a substance extracted from crude oil. Cosmetics containing mineral oils have a good moisturizing effect but do not ventilate, affecting the aeration ability of the skin, clogging pores, easily causing skin aging in the skin.

TH3: If cosmetic settles to the bottom of the cup

Because it has ingredients extracted from heavy metals, lead, mercury . This type of cosmetics is very toxic to the health of users, especially if pregnant women use cosmetics that contain these substances, babies born may have cerebral palsy.

Try the product

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For this way it is difficult because there will be places to sell them for you to try but there are also places where they don't let you try it.

For this way it is difficult because there will be places to sell them for you to try but there are also places where they don't let you try it. If they want to sell Counterfeit goods to you, then it is very simple, they will let you try the real products first and counterfeit goods will be sold to you later. So, you have been tricked into being spectacular and not confused. Only go home, peel out the box and you know this is a fake.

The true makeup powder will have a slight smooth aroma, not as fake, but the real perfume has a strong, aromatic odor that can cause headaches and cannot keep the fragrance long. Fake aromatherapy due to its high alcohol content, so when sprayed, a strong diffuse odor can cause headaches and only keep the odor for 1 hour.