While we’re just a few weeks away from spring, I know many of us are purging and making room for the next season. But I’m curious, how often are you cleaning and purging your beauty products? I personally am not a product junkie, which may surprise many. I would like to consider myself a minimalist. I really have a disdain for wasted things. To ensure I don’t have excess, I purge often (which makes many of my friends on the receiving end happy).
But when it comes to beauty products, some things literally have to go because they’re expired. Products become compromised, and the efficacy is altered (meaning how effective the ingredients will be). Products can literally stop working! In some cases you can be damaging your skin.
Knowing the shelf life and open date of your products is very important. They even have apps to help keep you on track! For reference, open life refers to the minute you open the product and air hits the ingredients. From that moment the clock starts on the expiration date before it is no longer effective. Where shelf life refers to how long something can sit on the shelf before it is opened.
I encourage you to make it a regular practice to go through your beauty products every 3-6 months and discard what can no longer be used. If you’re finding that you’re not using enough of your product, opt for a smaller size the next time (if that’s an option) or decrease the number of products in your rotation to increase the chances that you will use more of it.
