goods, as well as at many others, have expiration date. If to use expired product, it is possible not only not to reach desirable effect, but also to bring infection, to receive allergic reaction, to provoke skin diseases. Certainly, if your cream or lipstick have changed consistence, color, unpleasantly smell – better to get rid of them. But about expiry date it is not always possible to recognize by appearance of product at once. And how to be with the sealed cosmetics which you are only going to buy?
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- On cosmetics whose period of storage does not exceed 30 months, expiration date of expiration date has to be surely specified. It is written directly on packing of product in format by month/year or day/month/year. So, for example, figure 09.13 on your shampoo mean that it will keep all the stated advantages only till September, 2013, and the inscription on box with mineral shadows warns you 20.12.2012 that their expiration date expires on December 20, 2012.
- But the fact that at goods the expiration date has not expired does not guarantee yet that after packing opening it will remain invariable. Agree, you do not expect that the opened jar of red caviar will stay at you in the fridge, without having deteriorated, as much, how many and closed. Also and with some cosmetics. After you have discovered them, their expiration date changes. On such goods on packing write Russian joint stock company (Period After Opening – the Period After Opening). It is figure and letter M. 6M following it means that your product is suitable 6 months after you have opened packing, 12M, respectively, 12 months and so on.
- If the stated expiration date expires earlier, than Russian joint stock company, it is necessary to leave means before the expiration of specified period. That is if on packing the term 12.12, and Russian joint stock company 24M is specified, then cosmetics will not be suitable for use in December, 2012, but not in two years after its opening. To the contrary, if expiration date much longer, than Russian joint stock company, then it is necessary to leave goods, being guided by Russian joint stock company. The example, on cream is specified expiration date 01.15 January, 2015, but its Russian joint stock company 6M, you have opened treasured jar in February, 2013 and therefore in June of the same year it should be thrown out.
- If the expiration date of cosmetic product exceeds 30 months, the producer is obliged to specify on it the lot number or other code which will allow to determine time and the place of its production. There is no uniform sample here. As a rule, the expiration date of cosmetic products does not exceed three years, and, having deciphered the lot number, you can independently calculate it.
- Bad news is that at most of the European producers the standards of marking. For example at Chanel, Caudalie, Clarins, Christian Dior, Givenchy, Guerlain, MaxFactor and some other producers the first figure of the code is year of release. And at Lancôme, Vichy and Maybelline year of release is the second letter of year where Latin And there corresponded 2004, In - 2005 and so on. Lancaster specifies by the first figure year of production, and the subsequent - day according to its serial number when the goods have been manufactured. Serial number of day specifies also Biotherm, but in their code the second letter designates year. Agree, at such chaotic system it is possible to remember rules of interpretation of codes only for several favourite brands.
- You can use, so-called, cosmetic calculators online. It is enough to load one of such websites, to choose the brand of product, to enter the code and the program will decipher everything for you.