Meningitis from Rumba and sepsis from lipstick: old cosmetics are dangerous for life

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Each fifth girl who keeps his precious jars for more than five years, risks together with beauty to get sepsis, urinary infection or, at worst, gastroenteritis. We have nothing to do with it, these are all scientists.

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Researchers from London Metropolitan University brought cosmetics to the laboratory with an expired shelf life, considered it under the microscope and were horrified. Blush, lip gloss and tonal cream have a variety of bacteria.

They found a lot of things there. For example, Enterococcus Faecalis is a microbe, which causes meningitis, EUBACTERIUM - the perpetrator of bacterial vaginosis, and Aeromonas - this provokes gastroenteritis and blood infection.

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In addition, in cosmetics, the best days of which have long passed, there were several types of bacteria, causing acne and urinary and respiratory tract infections - all of them treated species that successfully resist any antibiotics.

At the same time, a quarter of girls admit that it can easily take advantage of the car, bought a year ago, 20% of the years do not part with the washings, and another 10% sometimes paint the lipstick, purchased alternate three years ago.

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