Skin care can be expensive, so of course, we're always looking for ways to use every last drop of whatever serum, cleanser, or cream we slather on our faces. The Internet is the first stop for lots of folks looking to figure out ways to get the most mileage out of their pricey skin care, but not all methods are created equal. Some actually come at the cost of contaminating the actual products you were trying to preserve in the first place.
One of the latest product-salvaging hacks comes from thrifty Redditors, who are cutting the tubes housing their skin-care products in half to get to the excess goodness trapped inside. While it sounds like a genius way to be sure you're getting the most for your money, it's also a great way to absolutely eff up your product, and possibly your skin, if you ask the experts.
“By cutting tubes of beauty products, you are increasing the speed of oxidation and potentially exposing the spread of bacteria and fungus," says Melissa Kanchanapoomi Levin, a dermatologist and founder of Entiere Dermatology in New York City.
Products packaged in tubes rather than jars are more susceptible to contamination in the first place. According to Charleston-based dermatologist Marguerite Germain, this is especially important to remember with products made for the eye and mouth area. (Germain does concede that hair, body, and rinse-off products are less risky, but generally, cutting into any tube is not a good idea). "The process is delicate, like handling food," she says. "Caution must be taken not to introduce microbes, since a large contamination may overwhelm the preservative system at some point and allow harmful bacteria or molds to grow in the product. Once the tube is cut open, the safeguards have been removed and the manufacturer can no longer guarantee the product."
These tubed products are also made with a different consumer handling expectations. "Manufacturers don't expect consumers to dip their fingers into these tubes [as] they would do in a jar,” explains cosmetic chemist Ginger King. “When [people do end up sticking their fingers into a tube], they can introduce germs in the product." King notes that opening the tube weakens the product’s already-weak preservation system. This can cause your product to grow mold, which can lead to serious infections.
Levin agrees, saying that contaminated products can also cause and trigger inflammatory conditions like acne, eczema, contact dermatitis, and folliculitis.
"Beauty products are formulated with preservatives in order to control bacterial contamination,” she explains. “Packaging is important for certain ingredients such as antioxidants, peptides, and retinol/retinoids, in order to prevent accelerated oxidation,” she says. “Vitamin C, for example, is a relatively unstable ingredient and tends to degrade and oxidize faster when exposed to air and light.”
If you still can’t resist the urge to get those sweet, end-of-the-tube scrapings, Levin advises putting the product (especially if it contains ingredients like retinol, peptides, or antioxidants) in a small, sealable pot immediately after you cut open the tube to minimize oxidation. But all experts agree that even then, it’s not quite worth it.
"People think they are smart to save a few pennies," says King. "But saving pennies and causing inflammation is not worth the risk."
So, before you start slicing up your tubes to fish out those last few smears of product, take the advice of dermatologists and put down the scissors.
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