Save your skin, warn make-up experts

WOMEN who regularly use cosmetics are absorbing almost five pounds of chemicals through their skin every year, a new study has found.

Many use more than 20 beauty products a day while nine out of 10 apply make-up that is past its expiry date.

Biochemist Richard Bence, who has spent three years researching conventional beauty products, is concerned that the chemicals found in them could be causing unknown damage.