Reporter visits! There is a real hidden danger under ＂false eyelashes＂
in recent years
Planting eyelashes and pasting false eyelashes
It has become a popular beauty project.
now
The production of false eyelashes in China is large and the quality is excellent.
But there is no corresponding mandatory standard.
Consumers can’t judge the quality of products when buying.
Give some fake and inferior products an opportunity.
Bring risks to consumers’ eye health.
for this reason
China Consumer News reporter
Recent survey and interview on false eyelash market
Variety and excellent price.
False eyelashes are popular with consumers.
At the weekend, the reporter visited six shops in Beijing where false eyelashes were inoculated, and each shop had to wait in line. In some shopping malls, there are a number of eyelash inoculation shops, and the business is very prosperous.
The reporter learned that
The most common ways to use false eyelashes are
Sticking and grafting
Sticking false eyelashes is to stick false eyelashes near the root of their own eyelashes with glue, which lasts for a short time and usually comes loose after cleansing on the same day. In this way, consumers can usually do it at home.
Grafting eyelash is also called "planting/attaching eyelashes" or "semi-permanently extending eyelashes". In this way, false eyelashes are not really implanted into the skin, but are glued to the real eyelashes one by one, and grafting can last for 2 to 6 weeks. Eyelash inoculation is mostly carried out in beauty salons or eyelash shops.
In recent years, there has been a popular wind of magnetic eyelash attraction. Magnetic attraction eyelash is said to be fixed at the position of eyelid margin by its own magnetism without glue.
The reporter saw on the major e-commerce platforms that the price of false eyelashes generally ranges from 10 yuan to 40 yuan according to different raw materials and styles. For example, 5 pairs of lashes for a box are 12.6 yuan, and 30 clusters for a box of 11 mm long lashes for inoculation are 26.25 yuan. Liu Yi, manager of a false eyelash factory in Shandong, told reporters: "The unit price of a box of false eyelashes we produce is set between 10 yuan and 15 yuan, but the profit is very meager. Moreover, there are more manufacturers of false eyelashes now, and the competition is fierce. Everyone is rolling the price. "
However, the reporter found that the cost of inoculating false eyelashes is not low. Generally, the price of eyelash inoculation is between 200 yuan and 500 yuan. Jingjing, an eyelash teacher at Beijing Xiahua Beauty Salon, told reporters: "Our price is expensive in the cost of labor and store rent. The false eyelashes used are also products of forty or fifty yuan. "
When the reporter asked about the material of Jingjing’s false eyelashes, she replied: "The material of false eyelashes includes animal hair such as mink hair and rabbit hair, but most of them are artificial fiber hair on the market. There are many products called mink velvet, rabbit velvet and silk, but they are all man-made fibers, which should be called imitation velvet. I have been doing eyelash inoculation for 10 years, using all artificial fiber products. There are almost no eyelashes made of animal hair in the inoculation market, at least I haven’t seen them. The reason for this phenomenon lies in the price. The grafted eyelashes will fall out in one month, and the price of animal hair products is high. It is not easy for consumers to accept grafting for eight or nine hundred or even thousands. "
Big industries lack big brands.
The quality depends entirely on the luck of consumers.
The reporter learned that
Nowadays, false eyelashes are loved by many consumers.
But it does not appear on the market at present.
A well-known brand
Many consumers said
There is no basis for choosing goods.
The quality depends on luck.
A consumer in Beijing told reporters: "I have bought false eyelashes or inoculated eyelashes for three or four years, and I have not used a certain brand regularly. When buying online, first look at what’s new, and then look at the comments. If it doesn’t work, throw it away and buy another one. Anyway, it’s not expensive. When I was inoculated in a physical store, I touched it with my hands and used it when I felt comfortable. "
Jingjing told reporters: "Our beauty salon has more than 10 branches in Beijing, and the consumption of false eyelashes is large, all of which are directly purchased from Shandong manufacturers. We recognize the manufacturer, not the brand. Now there are too many products of various brands, and it is impossible to judge the quality. "
According to Zheng Xiujie, a false eyelash manufacturer in Dazeshan Town, pingdu city, Shandong Province, "I have been in this business for more than 20 years. The threshold of this business is not high and the competition is fierce. The profit margin of a box of false eyelashes is about 10%."
Dong Wang, another local manufacturer of false eyelashes, has a large factory. He told reporters: "Today, the annual output of false eyelashes in pingdu city, Shandong Province has reached 10 billion yuan, accounting for 80% of the national market and 70% of the global market. There are many big manufacturers, which are well known locally, but no one knows when they go to the national market. Our factory sells 800,000 to 900,000 boxes of false eyelashes every month, and more than half of them are processed and exported. At present, we don’t do brands, we have to invest heavily in brands, and we have to do channels. Now it is more worry-free to do processing on behalf of others. "
False eyelashes lack mandatory standards
Worried quality and hidden dangers
Aiming at the worrying quality of false eyelashes
Related complaints are increasing.
Some consumers told reporters: "It is really prudent to buy false eyelashes. I bought a’ gel-free false eyelash’ in the middle and late October this year. I wore it for the first time on November 3, and my eyes felt uncomfortable at night, and my eyes began to turn red and bloodshot. I woke up the next day with swollen eyes. I went to the hospital to see an ophthalmologist, and the doctor told me that it was acute conjunctivitis. " Some consumers told reporters.
Some consumers told reporters: "I bought a false eyelash with adhesive tape at the bottom. I thought it would be convenient to paste without glue, but the product quality was not good and the paste was not firm." Every time you use it, you should carefully clip and paste it, but because of the poor quality of the adhesive tape, the false eyelashes will fall off before going out. "
The reporter looked at more than a dozen false eyelash products in the market and found that these products were not marked with production standards, and some even did not indicate the manufacturers.
Dong Wang told reporters that large-scale factories have production standards and strict inspection and sampling procedures. Products can’t be exported if they are unqualified, but most small factories pay more attention to the style and strength of products and don’t care about other standards of product quality. In particular, safety indicators such as microorganisms are easily overlooked, and the result of this is that it is easy to cause eye discomfort to users.
The reporter learned that false eyelashes have a recommended industry standard "QB/T 5774-2022 False Eyelashes for Hair Products". Qin Zhaoxia, technical director of Beijing Mass Spectrometry Technology Company, told reporters that the standard regulates the production of false eyelashes from the aspects of appearance quality, material testing and microbial limit testing. But this is a recommended standard, and enterprises will not violate the rules if they don’t implement it.
Qin Zhaoxia also told reporters: "For the products sent to us for testing, we all suggest to use the General Technical Specification for Hair Products (GB/T 41637—2022) together with the QB/T 5774—2022 False Eyelashes for Hair Products. The General Technical Specification for Hair Products (GB/T 41637—2022) outlines the quality and safety requirements of hair products. In view of the potential chemical and biological hazards such as heavy metals, allergenic carcinogens, formaldehyde and pathogenic microorganisms that may exist in the procurement of raw materials, production and processing, and even wearing and using, it specifies indicators such as formaldehyde, pH value, odor and microorganisms, and clarifies the corresponding inspection methods, which fills in the general technical specifications for hair products at home and abroad. However, this standard is also a recommended national standard and is not mandatory. "
Nowadays, the iterative speed of false eyelashes is very fast, the output is high, the number of people wearing false eyelashes is expanding, and the complaints of consumer eye diseases caused by product quality problems are also increasing. In the interview, people in the industry all said that false eyelashes should have stricter mandatory standards as products that directly contact eye skin.
Reporter/Li Yanjing
Source: China Consumer News
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