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Post by kickingfrog on Feb 7, 2011 13:59:38 GMT
Gluten in non-edible items?
Gum on postage stamps and envelopes
Extensive enquiries with the Post Office and the manufacturers of envelopes have shown that the gum used in these products is gluten-free and safe for people with coeliac disease.
Cosmetics (make-up, face creams etc)
Gluten poses a problem for people with coeliac disease if it is ingested i.e. taken in via the mouth. It cannot be absorbed through the skin.
With regards to lipstick and lip balms, if any ingredients are derived from a gluten containing cereal, it is unlikely that you would swallow enough of the product in question to cause a response.
If you are concerned then you should contact the manufacturers directly about specific products.
It is still possible to be sensitive to ingredients used in cosmetics, but this has nothing to do with coeliac disease specifically.
From CUK
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Post by kickingfrog on Sept 6, 2014 12:56:17 GMT
Re: Confused About Lipsticks
GF board
Posted by Anon on 5/9/2014
in reply to "Confused About Lipsticks"
I'm a cosmetic scientist who creates cosmetics for a lot of the big name companies - it's a bit like I design a recipe and they follow it.
I would expect there to be NO gluten in lipsticks or at least if there is it would be in unquantifiable tiny amounts. I did work it out once and post on here but it's been lost throughout the years. The gluten is highly likely to be from a grain derived active ingredient which is in there for fancy marketing claims - the levels of the active (therefore, most expensive part)are minimal due to costs. We would add an active ingredient at usually <0.1% (normally 0.02) per 100g - a lipstick is on average 3g so we would get 33 lipsticks from this 0.02g of ingredient. Additionally, the active ingredient is usually created through a long convoluted process (usually distillation), much the same way alcohol is - so I assume in the same way, there would be negligible gluten in the concentrated active.
hope that makes sense
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Post by kickingfrog on May 10, 2015 8:03:03 GMT
Cosmetics & gluten The U.S. Department of Agriculture has the following to say about highly refined oil...Refining improves the quality of plant oils by removing undesirable free fatty acids, gums, and phosphatides, imparting uniform color and eliminating undesired odors to make the product acceptable from the sensory perspective for human consumption. ...A benefit of refining edible oils is that the refining process renders them virtually free of allergenic protein according to information provided on the Institute of Shortening and Edible Oils website. According to the Institute of Shortening and Edible Oils, the vast preponderance of edible oils consumed in the U.S. are highly refined and processed to the extent that allergenic proteins are not present in detectable amounts. Scientific studies indicate that refined oils are safe for the food-allergic population to consume. In contrast, mechanical or 'cold press' extraction of oils from plant materials may not remove all protein. However, cold-pressed oils are rarely used... In other words, if wheat germ oil is highly refined it doesn't appear to contain much in the way of residual protein. (Nonetheless, I do not recommend eating wheat germ oil) BUT, we are not talking about ingesting wheat germ oil but an ingredient isolated from the oil via extensive processing. According to the European Food Safety Authority, this processing includes solvent extraction, distillative neutralization and precipitation, purification, and separation. ... Oils that are not highly refined as well as ingredients made from such oils are not exempt from allergen labeling. Therefore, if a food or supplement includes as an ingredient vitamin E derived from wheat germ oil that is not highly refined, and the vitamin E contains wheat protein, the word wheat must be included on the label, either in the ingredients list or Contains statement. The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act does not apply to personal care products. Allergens, such as wheat protein do not need to be declared in these products. If you see d-alpha (not dl-alpha) tocopherol in the ingredients list of a personal care item you might ingest, such as lipstick and you want to know whether it was derived from wheat germ oil, you will have to contact the manufacturer and ask. Keep in mind that most vitamin E appears to be derived from soybean oil and most edible oil in the U.S. is highly refined. Even if unrefined wheat germ oil is the source of vitamin E, the amount of protein in an ingredient that is extracted from oil is likely very low. Furthermore, the amount of vitamin E added to a personal care product is likely low and the amount of a non-food item you are likely to ingest even lower. www.glutenfreedietitian.com/vitamin-e-from-wheat-germ-oil/ |
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Post by kickingfrog on May 10, 2015 8:13:00 GMT
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