Benefit mascara – how to find a cheaper version

Ellen inquires…What is the best mascara? I use Benefit’s “They’re Real!” and for me, it does what it says – no flaking, smudging, comes off with a little oil. But it is about 22 dollars. Is there a less expensive brand with similar characteristics? They all make the same claim! I have had to try so many, and sometimes I think they change the formula, because I have to keep changing mascara’s. As a girl, I used Great Lash, but I am 60 now and haven’t tried it for….ages. The Beauty Brains respond: To find a cheaper version of your favorite product you can use a variation of our ingredient “Rule of 5.” 1. Find the ingredient list for the product in question which in this case is Benefit’s They’re Real Mascara. (If you don’t have the package handy you can usually find it on Amazon, Drugstore.com, or the websites for national drug store chains. 2. Copy and paste the first five ingredients into the search field of your web browser. Note that the ingredient names are separated by commas. This can be confusing because some of the longer chemical names contain dashes and slashes. 3. Review the search engine results disregarding the references to the original product until you find alternate products with the same first 5 ingredients. In this case we found two brands in the first few results pages: Givenchy Phenomen’Eyes Mascara and UOUO Curl Lash Mascara. 4. Click through those links until you fi...
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