We only produce the minimum amount of glue per batch to ensure the freshness and the best quality of lash extension glue get delivered to you.Īs tempting as they are, buy one get one free discount for lash glue might not be suitable for you. Sometimes if a supplier has a slow-selling cycle, it means the glue may have been sitting in the warehouse for a very long time and already lost its best quality.Īt BL, we manufacture more than 15 types of eyelash extension adhesives designed for different types of climates, skill levels, techniques, and client types. The best way is to contact the supplier with the lot number to find out the date and batch of the manufacture of your glue. What do I do if my newly purchased glue works funny? The lot number or batch code is usually printed directly on the bottom of the container or somewhere near it you can also try to find it on the product packaging. If you want to know the manufacture date of your lash glue, you should contact the supplier with this number. Manufacturers keep the track of the date and place of manufacture of the batch with its lot number. The lot number allows manufacturers or suppliers to identify the batch in which the product was produced. It is usually marked with a batch code or a lot number. Most of the lash brands do not directly indicate the production or expiration date in the product packaging. That’s why knowing the manufacture date of your lash glue is important and purchasing “fresh out of batch” glue is crucial to the quality of your glue. Related: Eyelash Extension Glue Ingredients: What's In My Lash Glue? Also, take note that the sensitive glues have a tendency to expire faster than normal glues. If the storage condition isn’t ideal, the expiration date for unopened glue can get as short as 3 months. However, because PE still allows air to enter into the bottle, the adhesive is always in the ‘hardening-in-progress’ stage and keeps on deteriorating even if it has never been opened or used.įrom our experience, if the glue was kept in the optimal glue-care condition, 6 months is the maximum period of time the unopened adhesive shows its best quality. It prevents the bottle from getting exploded. This happens in an airtight lash glue container:Ĭurrently, the best material available for a lash glue bottle is one called PE- a breathable plastic that allows the minimum amount of airflow into the lash glue bottle. That’s why any lash extension glue must be kept in an air-flowing bottle. You might think, why don’t you put lash glue in an air-tight container to make it last longer then? Well, we tried! But what we found out is that lash extension glue has a tendency to release a certain type of gas once formulated- when this gas gets built up and expands in an air-tight bottle, it ends up the bottle getting exploded. This deterioration of the lash glue is ongoing ‘in-progress’ stage from the second the lash glue is bottled because you can not stop air from entering into the bottle. When a lash glue is manufactured and bottled, they are inevitably exposed to air and start deteriorating(=hardening=drying). You know Cyanoacrylate (the main ingredient of lash glue) reacts to even the tiny amount of humidity in the air and it starts to get dry? That’s what happens to any lash extension glue from the moment of its production. The manufacture date is arguably one of the most important indicators of the freshness of the lash adhesive. The reason we can only give this wide span of ‘3-6 months’ is that the shelf-life of your lash glue massively depends on three factors:Ģ) When the glue is opened for the first timeĭeciding factors for shelf-life of lash extension adhesive Factor 1. I know it can be confusing when different lash extension supply brands say different expiry dates! But at BL, as a manufacturer of lash glues for the last 15+ years, we’ve set our standard expiration date for lash extension glue to be as follows: This is a great time to update your old inventory with the freshest supplies so you can give yourself and your lash clients a fresh restart. Take time to read this post and go through your lash supply cabinet. This brought us a good topic to discuss: how long does lash glue and other lash supplies last? Last few weeks, we have received this question from all over the world: Can I use the lash extension glue I opened before the lockdown? Fast forward the darkest 3 months of the beauty service industry, as many countries and states start to ease their social distancing rules, many salons have decided to re-open their doors. When the Covid-19 hit the globe, unfortunately, lash salons around the world were forced to close the salons to follow the health and safety procedures.
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