Are cosmetic products harboring bacterial growth?
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 3
Abstract
Microorganisms can grow almost anywhere! And these tiny organisms carry with them some unpleasant product changes or even disease. Cosmetic must be harmless for user so the aim of this study Determine the degree of bacterial contamination among different types of cosmetic products. Methods: a total of 70 samples of different cosmetics products were collected, 78.5% were found to be contaminated. The contaminants including bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylocoocus epidermidis, Escherichia coli, Bacterial contamination was found to be more among high water content products because it act as agood media for their growth. Finally in all kinds of cosmetics (eye liner, lipstick ,mascara…etc) the bacterial growth had been increased with the time, it's more common among those opened for more than 3 months.
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Wijdan Nazar Almusawi
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