Dangerous bacteria that can make you sick could be lurking just about anywhere but the cross-contamination that happens from someone else's fingers or lips touching makeup testers could be what causes sores, strep throat or worse.
Medical aesthetician Kim Chang with Baylor College of Medicine says you're right to be leery.
"No skin should ever touch any of the testers," she says.
Chang says specialists are trained to sanitize beauty products by scraping, swabbing and dispensing on tissue to save you from these germs.
What’s the worst consequence?
“The concerns then would be: staph, strep, E. coli that’s being cross contaminated with the general public,” Chang said. “E. coli is feces, so these are people who have gone to the bathroom, not washed their hands, dipping their fingers all up in the eye shadow.”
The public, she says, is the real problem.
“When the general public has complete access to the makeup. So, you’re walking through the aisles and you can pick up and touch and there’s no real regulations,” Chang says that’s where the cross contamination is most worrisome.
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