Anything from dust, contact lenses, air conditioning and allergies (hello, hay fever) can cause sensitivity so it’s always best to choose a mascara that’ll be kinder to both your eyes and lashes.

"When someone with sensitive eyes uses a mascara with allergenic ingredients, this can create an allergic response of not only the eyelid skin, a form of contact dermatitis, but can cause an ...

Hence, we conclude that all four of our patients had eyelid dermatitis due to an allergic contact reaction to the shellac found in Maybelline Great Lash mascara. Of interest, the shellac provided ...

However, only a handful of reports in the literature describe allergic contact reactions to mascara or to its specific ingredients. Those ingredients include quaternium-22, shellac, colophony ...