You have to be very careful when you go to the make-up counters in the mall. Here is a CNN report.
RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sitting out in the open, colors just begging for a test drive, creams and concealers you can't pass up and lipstick so inviting, but there may be an ugly side to getting beautiful.
ELIZABETH BROOKS, PROFESSOR: It was horrible, where women would actually just pick up the lipstick and put it on their lips directly, and then put it back.
KAYE: And then you come along, and you have no idea that somebody has done that.
BROOKS: Yes, exactly. Yes.
KAYE: Professor Elizabeth Brooks discovered it as part of a project with her students at Rowan University. With permission from stores she promised never to identify, they headed out to collect samples.
BROOKS: The sterile swab, which means we know that there's no bacteria on it.
KAYE: They tested lipstick, shadows, blushes and creams, anything you might put on your skin when sampling at the make-up counter.
(on camera): Dr. Brooks and her students visited about 12 stores, took more than 400 samples. They brought them back here to the university's lab and tested them. What they found was, well, gross.
BROOKS: We found bacteria, but what was alarming is the numbers. You know, it was just very, very high microbial counts. And more specifically, we did find that E. coli, which does set off the alarm bells there.
KAYE (voice-over): Alarm bells she says because the E. coli came from one source, fecal matter.
BROOKS: Basically what that says is that someone had poor bathroom hygiene, touched the makeup, and then you and I come along and try the make-up on.
KAYE: In a sense.
BROOKS: Yes.
KAYE: What are we doing at that point?
BROOKS: We're putting feces on our face. Not a fun thing to do.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ooh! That's kind of gross.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm definitely never going to do that again because that's kind of gross.
KAYE: Don't worry, ladies, none of the bacteria Dr. Brooks found will kill you.
BROOKS: If you introduced it into your eyes, you could get conjunctivitis. But you know, a zit, that's pretty much it. But it's just that ick factor. Who wants that on their face?
KAYE: Professor Brooks did have some tips for make-up shoppers, like ask stores to sanitize samples, test the make-up on your hands instead of your face, and never put anything near your eyes, nose, or mouth. because while the germs may not be lethal...
BROOKS: We put it on our face and we are basically feeding these little critters and making them grow.
KAYE: Yuck.
BROOKS: Yes, big time yuck.
KAYE: It is certainly enough to make your skin crawl.
Randi Kaye, CNN, Glassborough, New Jersey.
GUPTA: Thanks, Randi, I think. Professor Brooks actually had one more tip as well. Tests conducted on weekends showed the most contamination.
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03-20-2006, 12:06 PM
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