Origins Products

[Salax]

Hi All,

I contacted Origins to find out about their products and here is the response. I did ask about specific products as I use many of them.

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Thank you for your interest in Origins.

While a formulation may contain no wheat, oat, barley or rye derivatives, for the benefit of our gluten-sensitive consumers who may have cross-sensitivities, Origins takes the extra precaution of including corn, rice and soy in our research.

A vast number of raw materials from many different suppliers and sources are used in the manufacture of Estee Lauder Companies' products. It is therefore not possible for us to fully guarantee that our products are completely free of ingredients that may elicit an allergic response in highly sensitive individuals who react to gluten. For example, it is possible that small amounts of a wheat sourced ingredient may remain on shared manufacturing equipment even after a thorough cleaning. We therefore recommend that you discuss this with your physician, because consumer safety is of utmost concern to us.

Ginger Souffl

[Lisa16]

Salax, you got rather more information from them than I even did. I wrote them about a year ago and got three emails with no information at all that warned me in the last paragraph not to publish any part of the email. I posted them here, if you search. That was all I needed to boycott them.

[Salax]

That sucks. I tried the same thing with Bath and Body Works and they won't tell me which products have or have not Gluten...and the worst part is that they email me the ingredients, but do not tell me which of those could contain Gluten. When I asked them they respond with a general statement of BS telling me that can not tell me which products contain gluten or not and that they all have a risk for cross contamination.

I will be not using their products either. Grr