Topic: healthy makeup

By the time I came into this world, my mother had mostly stopped wearing makeup–but that didn’t mean she didn’t have a large cardboard box of very-bright cosmetics circa 1982 which I routinely dove into. And while I didn’t die or break out in a disfiguring rash, the truth is that all of that makeup (and, indeed, probably much of the makeup in medicine cabinets and dresser drawers across the country) was expired. Because, apparently, the shelf lives of cosmetics are a lot shorter than most of us think. More »