How long can the cream be used after opening? The cream you are using may have expired.

How long can a facial cream be used after it is opened? With the arrival of winter, babies use facial cream more and more frequently, but do babies know how long a facial cream can be used after it is opened? Is the facial cream you are using still effective? Let's quickly learn about the shelf life of the cream after it is opened~

How long can the cream be used after opening?

Generally, unopened facial cream can be stored for 3 years, but opened facial cream is recommended to be used up within 3-4 months after opening. Because the cream comes into contact with the air after opening, it will inevitably be contaminated by bacteria and microorganisms in the air, which accelerates the oxidation of the cream and causes the effectiveness of the cream to be lost faster. Therefore, the shelf life of the cream after opening will be shortened to 3-4 months.

What factors affect the shelf life of facial cream?

Storage environment

The first factor that affects the shelf life of the cream after it is opened is the storage environment of the cream. Some people are careless and directly place the cream in a place where it can be exposed to sunlight or in a high temperature environment. In fact, this is wrong. Because high temperature and direct sunlight will cause the texture of the cream to change, accelerate the loss of the cream's effectiveness, and shorten the shelf life of the cream after opening.

How to use

The second factor that affects the shelf life of the cream after it is opened is the way babies use the cream. Many babies like to use their fingers to pick out the cream directly for convenience, which is actually very wrong. Because there are many bacteria invisible to the naked eye left on the hands, especially on the nails, when babies use their fingers to pick up the face cream, they will bring the bacteria on their fingers into the face cream, causing the face cream to be contaminated, thereby shortening the shelf life of the face cream after opening.