Travel-sized beauty products are a must for the plane
British women are expected to have £11.5m worth of beauty products confiscated at airport security in the next week.
In a survey by online beauty retailer Escentual.com female holidaymakers admitted having beauty products taken from them on one in four trips abroad because they forgot about the 100ml security rule and said on average the products taken were worth £23.
This week is one of the busiest periods of the year for holiday flights and nearly 2 million women are expected to fly abroad – which will create a £11.5m pile of confiscated beauty products.
Nearly three quarters of women flying abroad on holiday told Escentual.com they had fallen foul of the security rule, which started in 2006, banning liquids and gels over 100ml in hand-luggage.
A third said they were in such a rush to pack that they forgot, 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 to get packed and to the airport in time that they forget and kept their beauty products in their handbag. 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.”
On average female holiday makers admitted to having two items taken off them since the ban came into place in 2006, but nearly one in ten of women said they had been caught out over five times.
Of the women that had products confiscated nearly 40% said the worst thing was that they wouldn’t be able to replace the products on holiday, and one quarter said it was that the products were really expensive to lose – and a similar percentage (39.7%) had products worth more than £35 taken.
That said most women understood that the security rule was a necessary one for safety only 14.1% called for it to be scrapped. But 40% thought there should be some way that the products could be labeled at security and put in the hold so they didn’t have to lose them.
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