New York City women might want to start stockpiling their favorite mascaras and face creams before most makeup is potentially banned under a controversial bill being mulled by the City Council.

The new measure calls for a ban on the sale of “microbeads,” a plastic bead often used in exfoliators, face cleaners and toothpaste, that clog and pollute water waters and affect marine life.

But in the wording of the council bill, a “microbead” is defined as “any manufactured particle of plastic that measures five millimeters or less in size and is added to a personal care product.”

The industry says that broad definition would include polymers that commonly appear in cosmetic products, including nail polish, lipstick, foundation, mascara and sunscreens.

“Unfortunately, the New York City Council is proposing action on cosmetics and personal-care-products ingredients well beyond plastic mi­cro­beads to a wide spectrum of ingredients that scientific research has not connected to environmental issues,” said Beth Lange, chief scientist of the Personal Care Council, a cosmetics industry group.

Cities and states across the country are introducing microbead bans, but most limit the wording to plastics “used to exfoliate or cleanse.”