Lifestyle
Keep your beauty products in check
If you’re prone to hoarding products and you forget to check expiry dates, this is how long your beauty essentials will really last.
- Bath oil: one year
- Blush: two years
- Body lotion: two years
- Concealer: one year
- Deodorant: one to two years
- Eye cream: one year
- Eyeshadow: two years
- Hairbrush: one to two years but wash it once a month
- Hair spray: two to three years
- Lipgloss and liners: one year
- Lipstick: Two years
- Liquid foundation: one year
- Make-up sponge: one month
- Mascara: three to six months
- Nail polish: four years
- Soap bars: 18 months to three years
- Perfume: up to four years
- Powder: two years
- Self-tan: six months to a year
- Shampoo: two to three years
- Shaving cream: two years
- Soap bars: 8 months to three years
- Sponge and loofahs: six months
- Toothbrush: three months
If you decide to declutter
Get rid of expired medicines, bath and beauty products you don’t use and nail polishes you don’t like. Then look at your multiples: you seriously don’t need four pairs of tweezers. And if you once bought a beauty or spa appliance such as a foot bath, and it’s just collecting dust, get rid of it. Old towels must go too.
