Cleansing My Face and Avoiding Contact With Eyes is An Impossible Task
I’d just like to take a moment to rant over all the new cleansers releasing lately that have warnings on the back of the bottles that say, “Avoid Contact With Eyes” or “Do Not Get Into Eyes”.
This is me:
What the hell are you talking about?!?!? Avoid contact with eyes? WHAT!?
Ok, so about freaking 80% of the latest cleansers I’ve tried and reviewed on Musings of a Muse all have some sort of warning about using the item near your eyes. Listen, we only have two eyes and I’m not willing to cause damage to them so, when they say avoid contact with eyes I do.
So, why am I ranting?
BECAUSE CLEANSING YOUR FACE AND AVOIDING YOUR EYES IS HARD!
All facial cleansers should be eye safe. It’s just logic that you’re going to wash around your eye area when cleansing your face. I use an eye makeup remover prior to washing my face but I tend to gently wash around my eyes to remove excess mascara or eye makeup that my remover might have missed. And sure, sometimes some of the cleanser gets in my eye at the time. I expect (and hope) that I’m not doing any long term damage to my eyes by using a simple facial cleanser around this area.
Now, some of us are too damn busy to read the back of a bottle and we just assume we can use our facial cleanser safely around our eyes. Others are as anal as I am and read the back of the bottle like our very lives depend upon it. I’m always rather disappointed to see warnings about eye use. I admit it kind of squeaks me out a bit. Even Garnier’s Micellar Water has a warning about avoiding contact with eyes.
What in the hell?
How do you create a product to remove waterproof mascara but tell people to avoid contact with eyes?!
It’s all so damn confusing.
So, please, skincare world, if you’re listening, please make sure our cleansers are eye safe.
Thank you!
How do you feel about this?
Do you take the warnings serious or just ignore them?