“To deliver a professional product or service that respects the health and hygiene of customers to the highest levels achievable.”
You expect a dentist to wear gloves; you would be horrified if your doctor didn’t open a fresh, sealed syringe to take blood.
Because you instinctively understand the health damage that cross-contamination could wreak.
Any yet with makeup and beauty, it seems anything goes, brush to face, brush to product, person to person, skin to skin. What about the risks?
Makeup? Beauty? Risks? Really?
Really.
First, think about where these products go. Around sensitive eyes, into the moist corners of the mouth, onto facial skin which, as any professional makeup artist and beauty practitioner will know, is semi-permeable and thinner than body skin. Now think about the micro-organisms that can transfer through makeup use and cosmetic use, breed in the product, and contaminate brushes and applicators. Bacteria, viruses, fungal spores. These are just a few of the health problems they can cause.
Conjunctivitis: a viral infection of the eye, easily transferred by mascara wands.
Blepharitis: nasty bacterial inflammation of the eyelid. Mascara wands again and eyeliner applicators.
Impetigo: a staphylococcus infection transferred by brushes and applicators.
Ringworm: not a worm but a fungus that multiplies rapidly in product such as blusher.
Herpes Simplex: the highly-contagious cold sore virus, easily transferred by contaminated lip brushes and lip gloss applicators and tubes.
This is the unacceptable face of the beauty industry and it’s one that the Safe Beauty Association is passionately determined change.
How
How? Through a better code of industry practice with awareness and education at its core.
We don’t want take away any of the fun and glamour the industry. We don’t want to take away any of its expert artistry. We certainly don’t want to take away the sheer joy of beauty. We just want to take away the risks.
Infection and disease caused by poor hygiene and cross-contamination within the beauty and cosmetics industries is an issue that is often ignored and simply dismissed. Now it's time to change, make a difference and practise SAFE BEAUTY.
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