Fun Friendly Phobic Fact Friday!

You know those makeup testers they have at Nordstrom, Macy's, Sephora, everywhere you go?

Yeah.

You might want to rethink using those little testers to see how a little NARS Shanghai Express looks on your lips or how some Bare Escentuals Pure Radiance looks on your cheeks. Or God forbid how a little Maybelline Great Lash looks on your eyes.

" 'We went to department stores, specialty stores, drugstores — everywhere,' she says. Her researchers found staph, strep and even E. coli bacteria on makeup testers. 'Wherever you see E. coli, you should just think "E. coli equals feces," ' Brooks says. 'That means someone went to the bathroom, didn't wash their hands and then stuck their fingers in that moisturizer.' Brooks says that when they tested the makeup on Saturdays — the day with the most traffic at cosmetic counters — the percentage of tainted makeup was 100%."

So if you want the Herp or a raging case of pinkeye, go ahead. Else, let's put down those tiny brushes and wee dipsticks and step away from the makeup counter, shall we?

Fun Friendly Phobic Fact Friday!

Be sure to wash your hands after transferring your wet, just-washed laundry to the dryer. Wet laundry is teeming with fecal matter and bacteria, most notably hepatitis A virus, norovirus, rotavirus, salmonella, and E. coli. And then, if possible, kill it with fire on the hot & heavy cycle in the dryer.

It Is Now Time for Our First Official...

...Fun Friendly Phobic Fact Friday!!

When someone passes gas, odor molecules and bits of fecal matter from that person's bowels are expelled into the air. How much is released depends on the filtering efficiency of their underwear and pants. Odor molecules are very tiny, so a lot of those escape into the air...and they're what causes your nose to register the bad smell. Particles of fecal matter that are very small, along with intestinal bacteria and other germs, may also make it into the air--and you breathe them in and swallow them.

You're welcome.