Burts Bees Foot Creme Has Oat Flour

[delilah]

I'm 1 month new to gluten-free and I have not yet gone into my cosmetics and personal grooming products. I used Burts Bees Coconut Foot creme tonight and saw it has oat protein. When it checked the Burts Bees sight it said in the ingredients Oat flour. I hear some can tolerate and some can't but you must use a certain kind of oat. I am feeling so good I don't want to feel bad again! I guess I have no choice.

Can anyone save me hours of reading the forum by helping me with how to shop for cosmetics. I buy most of my personal hygiene at whole foods but my cosmetics at walgreens. Is there a list somewhere?

Also my nail polish remover has wheat germ oil.. is that ok?

Thanks for your help

Delilah.

[OceanGirl78]

HI - welcome to the gluten-free world! The world of cosmetics and body products is a challenging one! I personally would not use the polish remover if it has wheat in it. I have been gluten free for almost 6 years and as of last year gave up EVERYTHING that has gluten in it. I even feed my pets' gluten-free food (I was getting migraines everyday-they went away after I switched my pets' food).

I figure that in life we are going to get glutened accidentally anyway at times - why increase the risk factor by using something that has gluten in it on my body? There will always be times that you forget to wash your hands and then bite your nails, fix something to eat or get your hair in your mouth...

There are a lot of helpful lists on this forum about cosmetics. Offhand, I know NARS and Bare Minerals are gluten-free makeups (although both are quite pricey). Neutrogena has a great gluten-free list and many people have posted it recently (you can do a search on neutrogena). Dove (and all uniliver brands) will not hide anything and you can rest assured that they will list allergens on their labels.

Hope that helped a little.

Laurie

[zachsmom]

Burts bee has oat flour in its BABY soaps..... I think that the only way your going to be safe is the same way we all our ,.. and this is the safest way ... CHeck the ingrdients on a regular basis... this way it helps to train you to keep your self ( from not being glutened. ) But yeah My baby had a rash and I wondered why .. this was the same time we discovered the wheat intolerance. so yeah many products dont have wheat in them.. But its a good practice to DOUBLE CHECK... thanks chris