There is a specific batch with the issues – I don’t know if it’s every mascara in this batch, or if there are any other batches with problems – but I do know that as people started complaining en masse it was quickly determined that “Batch 0310” was the culprit. Be a Bombshell confirmed this in their Facebook post that I’ve linked below.
Be a Bombshell has already announced they are doing independent test on “Batch 0310”. I’d hardly call that silly. Companies don’t just up and send their products to independent labs because it’s missing a fragrance.
As mentioned below, it is burning skin and eyes. It is melting off eyelashes. A generic Rx eyedrop treatment costs more than the $10 bag.
Last but not least – read your mascara box. It states, “Made in PRC”. Do you know why they abbreviated that? Because it was made in the People’s Republic of China. Please research that country’s standards when it comes to manufacturing cosmetics and other personal care items. I can save you the Googling and pretty much state “there are none”.
Full disclosure: I have been chronically ill for over 5 years because we purchased a brand new home in Florida in 2007 that was built with “Chinese drywall”. After Hurricane Katrina in LA, and Florida having four hurricanes in one season in 2004, there was a national drywall shortage. Builders started secretly importing drywall from China from about 2005-2009 because instead of paying $17 / sheet they could pay about $3 / sheet. Even though our builder stated their homes were “100% American Made” we found out very quickly this was not the case in our home. When we finally suspected what was going on after I was near-death with several hospitalizations, and our boys (4 and 5) had developed rashes / vomiting / severe cough, the state inspector told us to get out immediately. Not to take ANYTHING with us – and head straight to Target and buy everyone new clothing and throw what we had on in the trash. We had to treat the house as if it burned to the ground. Nothing was salvageable. Everything was contaminated.
The Chinese drywall was made with “runoff” from coke plants in China pressed with gypsum – the drywall was mildly radioactive and off-gassed the same chemicals used as nerve agents in WWI.
Long story short, after moving out in 2010 we finally just settled this spring with (the now bankrupt) builder and lender. We were able to walk free and clear from the house, losing only our equity and the cost it took us to replace all of our possessions since 2010, and not have a foreclosure on our record. We were in #5 of 6 class-action lawsuits against the manufacturer in China and it appears we’re about to reach a settlement there as well. Each recipient (about 10,000 in our case) will receive THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS each. That’s it. Just one of my hospital stays was three times that amount. (The attorneys will split a pool of $110 million, however.)
We lost our home. We lost everything we owned. I was so sick I had to give up my business and working completely. (I was a professional photographer and a contributing editor at Professional Photographer Magazine.) Oh yeah, and it made MY CHILDREN sick. We still don’t know what health problems the four of us might face 25-50 years down the road after living for 3 years in a toxic, radioactive new home.
So please excuse me if all that seems silly – but my opinion is that China never has to invade and conquer our country. They are silently killing us all with the cosmetics we put on our bodies, the apple juice our children drink, the paint on the baby toys our little ones teethe on, the filling inside of the furniture we lounge on, and the very walls we put around our families to protect us.
There is a reason that PetCo and PetSmart both announced in the last few weeks they will no longer sell pet food and treats made in China. Thousands of pets have died already.
If none of this makes you take pause – please read this comment left on BaB’s Facebook page:
“WARNING. I am a polymer chemist and I know the smell coming from the bombshell mascara very well. I use it everyday. It is a low Tg acrylate and it is residual monomer used to make the ‘acrylate copolymer.’ This is supposed to be removed during the purification process. If your product has the pungent odor please discard right away. These are carcinogens.”
I can’t make your life choices for you, but I certainly can for me and my family. I’ve got enough problems from China already, thank you very much!
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