Yahoo LifestyleThousands of beauty products will be confiscated at the airport this week
Make up items worth millions are still failing to make it past airport security, costing us a fortune. Have you checked your beauty bag is air travel friendly?
It's been seven years since the rules about taking liquid on planes came into effect, but we're still losing pricey make up products to airport security.
According to research we lose a favourite beauty product on a quarter of all the trips we take and the average price of the item lost to the security bins is £23.
With two million women expected to fly off on holiday this week, £11.5 million worth of beauty products is expected to be snapped up by security. So it could be your YSL Touche Eclat that's keeping the night shift workers looking so perky*.
In the survey by Escentual.com, nearly three quarters of women flying abroad on holiday admitted they'd fallen foul of the security rule that bans liquids and gels over 100ml in hand-luggage.
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A third said they were in such a rush to pack that they forgot and just over a third said they always keep their beauty essentials in their handbag and forgot to take them out.
Escentual.com Beauty Editor Emma Leslie warned: “Most women said one of the worst things they had experienced flying on holiday was having expensive products taken from them at security check-in. And it’s not that they weren’t aware of the rules - the vast majority knew them but were in such a rush the forgot to get ready.
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"Clearly the key is to be prepared and have beauty products on your main check-list along with tickets and passport.
“And if you really can’t be parted from your beauty must haves during the flight there are many cosmetics now that come in travel sizes which are below 100ml and so are absolutely fine to take in hand-luggage on a plane.”
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Though most of us accept the rule is necessary, 14 per cent of those polled said it should be scrapped and 40 per cent wanted some way to label and keep items in the hold so they were not lost.
Ultimately though, we think you'll agree that going without even an 'essential' product is somewhat better than risking death by exploding plane. Check out the gallery below for our top items that can travel with you.
*Actually, we doubt keeping the confiscated items is a perk of the job, otherwise we may sign up
Beauty buys you can take on the plane:
