Makeup/cream application on buses/public venues

[Saffron]

Also, has any research been

> done into whether these creams can be damaging to

> people with lung/breathing difficulties?

>

Literally anything can be considered dangerous, if used outside its recommended or common sense guidelines. That's part of the understanding of a) the principles of basic toxicology, and b) the difference between hazard and risk.

Creams by their nature don't readily aerosolise.

Aerosols by their nature don't readily reach the respirable fraction of the lungs.

Therefore the use of creams is not associated with increased respiratory exposure and risk by general use.

Yes, there is a shed load of rearch on aerosolised and respiratory irritants and toxins. Damage to the lungs by common materials is only associated with repeated high dose exposures, not incidental exposure as described by the bus scenario.

So, application of creams within their recommended usage would not constitute an increased respiratory risk. Even most aerosols in small amounts would not pose an increased risk of lung damage, though aerosol should not be used in confined spaces because it is a lung irritant.

And I would never recommend that anyone skip an essential medication such as asthma inhaler, if they needed one on a bus.

[Earl Aelfheah]

I cringe whenever I see people applying eye liner on a moving bus.

[peckham_ryu]

I'll keep using my 72% ethyl alcohol anti-bac hand gel on the bus thanks. You never know where other people's fingers have been just before they push that bell.

If a fellow passenger took a lighter to my hand right away after appying the gel, I wonder if the flames would burn me, or just be a harmless cool blue effect like when you set light to excess deodorant on your skin? Any clever people here know the answer? I don't plan on experimenting? :)

[teddyboy23]

Done it loads of times.harmless.gonna do it now here we go apply cream to arms put flame to cream .aaaargh fcuk that fcukig hell what the fcuk aaargh fcuks sake .gotta go fcuk fcuk fcukme .......

[Siduhe]

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> I cringe whenever I see people applying eye liner

> on a moving bus.

I am a combination of cringing and then inward applause that they can get a straight line on a moving bus when I can't manage one in the safety of my own home...

[srisky]

I like watching people do their make up on public transport - it's like daytime tv "before and after" on the way to work plus I pick up useful make up tips.