What cosmetics should not be shared in any case

We have been brought up in the unshakable conviction that always, with everything and with almost everyone — and close, and even distant — need to share. Give away the last shirt. Well, you can give. It's just not worth putting it on afterwards. Without disputing the fact that it is necessary to share, our portal wants to warn its readers: there are things that cannot be shared, because it is unhygienic, and sometimes even dangerous to health. These items include, but are not limited to, cosmetics and accessories.

Healthy Habit: Never Share

«Attraction of unprecedented generosity»: girlfriend tinted with your lipstick («Dab once!»), sister — with mascara (“Oh, mine is dry!”), my mother with her fingers (“I washed my hands!”) climbed into a jar of your cream, a neighbor popped in to ask for eyebrow tweezers (“I sowed mine somewhere.”) & hellip; Stop! This is too much! Say, finally, a categorical "no!".

"Attraction of unprecedented generosity" — borrowing cosmetics and makeup accessories — Can you get out sideways in the form of a magnificent bouquet of infections. Cosmetics, like underwear or a toothbrush, should be a purely personal item.

And not because you are greedy, but because, firstly, you are clean, and secondly, you take care of your health. Incredible, but true: what you can’t pick up, using strangers or borrowing your own cosmetics and makeup accessories. In order not to borrow a lot of pathogens along with cosmetics, check out the list of cosmetics and accessories that should never be shared with friends or even relatives:

1. Cream in a jar. Take out the cream with your fingers — help viruses, bacteria of all stripes settle in new territories. A kind of transfer of illegal immigrants. Imagine how many of them will breed there if more than one pair of hands has been in the jar. Acne, irritation — the simplest thing these "illegals" can give you. Dermatologists warn that even if your friend washes her hands thoroughly before dipping her fingers into the cream, bacteria will still remain on the skin, under the nails, and there is a high probability of bringing them into the cream. Do you know how surgeons wash their hands before surgery? 2 minutes with a brush with soap in running water, then twice for 3 minutes in basins with ammonia, then wipe for another 2 minutes with a cloth soaked in 96% alcohol. And at the end, put on surgical gloves! With such fingers, bacteria in the cream may and they won't get in. But your friend doesn't wash her hands according to Spasokukotsky's method, does she?  By the way, even your own cream for yourself, your beloved, is better to get out of the jar with a special cosmetic spatula, which must be washed with soap and water after each use. An even better idea — use products from a bottle with a dispenser.
2. Lipstick, gloss, lip liner. And with them herpes and even hepatitis C, if there are microcracks on the lips. Wet environment of cosmetic for infections — home.
3. Macara, pencil, eyeliner — also among the means that cannot be shared if you do not want to share at the same time the eyelash mites living on the eyelids, eyelashes, bacteria that cause hyperemia of the conjunctiva of the eyes, conjunctivitis, barley, inflammation of the cornea, bacterial infections of the eyelids, and already mentioned herpes. A person may not understand for a long time that he has given shelter to unwanted guests, — until their presence becomes so obvious that medical attention is indispensable.
4. Brushes, eyeshadow and powder brushes, foundation sponges, makeup bases abound with yeast, colonies of bacteria and multiply at an astonishing rate. Trouble — from acne, papillomas to subcutaneous mites, skin mycosis, ringworm — cannot be avoided if your sponge is used by a sick person. But even if you don't share these accessories, be sure to wash them with warm soapy water as often as possible and dry them well.
5. Powder. You can't share, that's all! Otherwise, all the "charms" from the previous paragraph may appear on your skin.
6. Tweezers, tweezers, manicure accessories. Alas, bacteria also live on metal objects. In the event of a cut when removing the cuticle or pulling out a hair with a bulb, blood with all its contents can get on the scissors or tweezers — including infections. Therefore, do not forget to wipe metal beauty accessories with alcohol.

Feel free to answer with a firm "no" to any requests to "smear once" your cosmetics. It’s better to let a friend pout on you a little (if she’s real, she definitely won’t break off the relationship because of lipstick) than present unpleasant surprises in the form of diseases that will have to be treated for a long time.

You have to be extremely careful with the samplers of cosmetics displayed in stores. Ideally, they should be taken with a cotton swab, with which the product is applied to the face. But how many people do that?

Also think again about whether it makes sense to "try on" on themselves, the color, texture of cosmetics exhibited in stores as samplers, which are used by all visitors. There are a lot of lipsticks in the world, and your health is — one. Take care of him!

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