What Bacteria is Found inside Skin Care Products

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You might be asking yourself how much bacteria can really get into my products? A two year research study was done on looking at cultures from tester bottles in department stores to see what was growing inside. Sit down its nasty, they found staph, strep, and E. coli inside all the products. Comparing the tester after a Saturday when the stores see the most traffic the bacteria inside increased by 100%. Testers have a high traffic with many people touching and applying with no information if they washed there hands or skin, but they result in the same bacteria that can be found in your products at home if you are not handling them properly. Before reaching for the tester at the store ask yourself is it worth it?

When it comes to skin care you can find products that come in jars, bottles with droppers, pump tops, mister tops, rollers and vials just to name a few. Never, never, never should you place you hands into the product. Even if you have clean hands the chances of spreading bacteria are still present. Keeping bacteria off you skin is the goal, not adding more! If you are think that, my hands are clean because I just washed them your wrong. Did you read our blog about towels? If not you can check it our here, but a quick recap is that traditional towels have bacteria left on them even after three washes. So your clean hands were just dried with a towel that has bacteria on it, now that bacteria is transferred from the towel to your hands and then into your product and in turn being placed onto your face. This bacteria in your products will start to grow only for you to open the next day and spread it all over skin.