Beauty blogger reveals how to tell whether a cosmetic product is already expired

A word of caution: Always check the manufacture date of a cosmetic product before buying it. Unfortunately, as beauty blogger Canon Ryder pointed out on TikTok, many third-party discount retailers sell items that are extremely expired. In his video, Ryder explains that all you need is a product’s batch number and you can determine exactly when it was manufactured. Using the website m.checkcosmetic.net, Ryder looks up the manufacture date of an Olay moisturizer being sold at TJ Maxx. Once he enters the brand and batch code he learns that the product being sold was actually allegedly manufactured in January 2011. It’s unclear why TJ Maxx would be selling beauty products that are almost a decade old. Many users were naturally disturbed by this new information. “That should be illegal,” one person said. “I’m not even into cosmetics like that but this is so interesting,” another added