Aaaaaaargh!

[laurelfla]

i need to vent!!! i am so darn frustrated! last weekend i spent my time cleaning out my kitchen of all gluten. this weekend i have moved onto my health and beauty products.

in some cases, i have a lot of money invested in these products, so i'm trying to check them out as carefully as possible. way too many of these wretched manufacturers have a "figure it out yourself" approach, and i think i am going to go crazy trying to read the tiny print of the interminable ingredient lists. you'd have to be a scientist to know what all of those 30-syllable words mean!

Body Shop told me to read the ingredients on their webpage.

Estee Lauder gives a list of their wheat, rye, barley and oat-derived ingredients, then says that any other ingredients are not guaranteed to be gluten-free whatsoever.

Bumble and Bumble has yet to write me back, after a couple of weeks have gone by. i found out on my own at my salon, however, that the shampoo, conditioner and curl creme i've been using have at least 3 wheat ingredients. and i had finally found a product line that made me happy after years of searching for something to deal with my stupid curly hair.

Lord have mercy. Why, oh, why can't there be some kind of standard list of ingredients for these companies? And if there already is, please point me to it!

i'm about to waste a bunch of money and chuck all this stuff and go buy Neutrogena stuff i know is safe.

thanks for listening!

[Rachel--24]

Sheeesh...it sounds like you're having a hard time getting answers. I called the companies for all the products I use and they were all helpful. They sent me those lists of ingedients which contain gluten and told me to just watch out for those particular ingredients. I didn't get that same response from Estee Lauder about the rest of the ingredients not being guaranteed gluten-free??? Did you ask about just the specific products you use or about their whole line in general? I only specifically asked about the products I'm using and they all responded to my satisfaction. No wishy-washy answers. As far as shampoo and the other stuff I'm not too picky about what I use so I just got what was recommended by other people here...that way I knew the stuff was safe. I did splurge on Bare Escentuals lip gloss since its going on my lips and I wanted chemical free and gluten free. I think my old lip gloss was like $2 and B.E. is $14. Thats why I didn't buy ALL their products...plus I wouldn't have any idea how to actually *use* their make-up...it looks totally different from what I'm used to.

[laurelfla]

I didn't get that same response from Estee Lauder about the rest of the ingredients not being guaranteed gluten-free??? Did you ask about just the specific products you use or about their whole line in general? I only specifically asked about the products I'm using and they all responded to my satisfaction. No wishy-washy answers.

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guess i'll have to check into Bare Escentuals.

as far as Estee Lauder goes, i guess it is what you'd call a CYA statement... what i'm finding with so many products these days. i only asked about my moisturizer, and they wrote back and told me it did contain gluten. my cleanser and toner i just read the backs of them and they don't have the offending ingredients. now that you mention it though, i think i'll write back and get clearer answers on those two. but they have the disclaimer that they can't guarantee that the ingredients that don't come from wheat, rye, barley or oats are gluten-free, because they come from varied sources. *sigh*.

[Rachel--24]

Well if you can afford it go with the Bare Esentuals stuff....then you can let me know how the heck that stuff works!