{"id":535960,"date":"2010-04-20T19:02:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T23:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004782"},"modified":"2010-04-20T19:03:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T23:03:47","slug":"how-to-use-makeup-testers-without-giving-yourself-a-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535960","title":{"rendered":"How To Use Makeup Testers Without Giving Yourself A Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/042010-006-makeup-thumb-206x128-39527.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Brooks, a professor at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, has some advice for people trying out makeup when they&#8217;re out shopping. As most people know, makeup can harbor bacteria and viruses, and shared testers are the worst offenders: Brooks tested hundreds of makeup counter samples for a study and found 100% of it was contaminated with things like staph, strep, and E. coli. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what she told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/image\/la-ig-testers-20100418,0,7091657.story\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid trying jar lotions and only test ones you can squeeze or pump out.<\/li>\n<li>Clean the surface of the tester with a tissue or a tissue dipped in alcohol before trying it.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use communal makeup brushes; the ones made from animal hair are especially hard to keep clean.<\/li>\n<li>Ask for disposable brushes or pads to apply makeup. Brooks says every counter they tested had these things behind the counter, but not on public display.<\/li>\n<li>If you insist on trying out lipstick, first debride it with a disposable applicator.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid any makeup testers that come in contact with the eyes, nose or mouth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/image\/la-ig-testers-20100418,0,7091657.story\">&#8220;Handle those store makeup testers with care&#8221;<\/a> [Los Angeles Times]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Brooks, a professor at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, has some advice for people trying out makeup when they&#8217;re out shopping. As most people know, makeup can harbor bacteria and viruses, and shared testers are the worst offenders: Brooks tested hundreds of makeup counter samples for a study and found 100% of it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}