Temporary Tattoos

[123glldd]

So I have this small book of temporary fairy tattoos. It lists ingredients in the back of the book:

PVA (polyvinyl acetate) CoPlymer, POlyester resin, modified varnish, deoderized petroleum, silicon dioxide, aluminum silicate, iron oxide, FD&C yellow #5 & 6 Aluminum Lake, D&C Red #7 Lake, FD&C Blue #1 Aluminum Lake. ALL COLORS FOLLOW FDA COSMETIC REGULATIONS.

Additional ingredients: Gllutter tattoos may contain cosmetic polyester glutter, glow in the dark tattoos have luminescent zinc sulfide.

Are any of these ingredients a worry?

[kareng]

Sounds delicious! We're you going to eat them? Or put them on your lips or fingertips? I wouldn't worry about them.

[123glldd]

hahaha no no not eating them but in case i touch it or my husband touches it at some point and our fingers touch our mouths we just assume make sure heh

[psawyer]

No possible gluten source that I can see there.

[123glldd]

*Happy dance* I love my fairies! haha

[bartfull]

One of my banjo students gave me some frogs last night. I'm going to wait until Saturday and make the first eight people who show up for the jam session wear them. And if I'm in a particularly "evil" mood, I'm going to tell them that they have to play every song this day in the key of F.

I always joke with my regulars that it is my shop, so they have to "obey" me. Life is fun when you're feeling good!

[tim frances]

On 6/4/2012 at 7:02 PM, kareng said:

Sounds delicious! We're you going to eat them? Or put them on your lips or fingertips? I wouldn't worry about them.

That's a terribly annoying response as skin is a large and porous organ which means a product with fake dyes and gluten can absorb directly into the blood stream. I wouldn't make a sarcastic judgement call on something you don't seem to know much about and I wouldn't use anything processed on your body if you have a serious gluten allergy. 

[kareng]

Wow!  I was a smart ass 7 years ago!  And look how young I looked!  ?

 

skin is porous to a point- obviously not everything can pass thru all the layers of the skin.  And gluten proteins are too large for that.  People with Celiac are not a “ gluten allergy”.  I know many people use that term, but it’s not exactly true.  

[cyclinglady]

What Karen said is true!  

Here are the facts based on medical research and not FAKE news:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/celiac-disease/expert-answers/celiac-disease/faq-20057879

By the way, the Mayo clinic is one of the leading celiac research centers. 

Here is more:

https://www.beyondceliac.org/celiac-disease/myths/

If you are reacting to wheat on skin, you may have a wheat allergy (IgE response) instead of celiac disease where gluten (wheat, rye or barley proteins) must be swallowed in order to get an autoimmune reaction (body attacks small intestine).  

[kareng]

9 hours ago, cyclinglady said:

What Karen said is true!  

Here are the facts based on medical research and not FAKE news:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/celiac-disease/expert-answers/celiac-disease/faq-20057879

By the way, the Mayo clinic is one of the leading celiac research centers. 

Here is more:

https://www.beyondceliac.org/celiac-disease/myths/

If you are reacting to wheat on skin, you may have a wheat allergy (IgE response) instead of celiac disease where gluten (wheat, rye or barley proteins) must be swallowed in order to get an autoimmune reaction (body attacks small intestine).  

I was basing my comments on that section on skin in A&P class and that biology class- I can’t remember the exact name of -on body systems & the one about body chemistry.  Just some random college classes.   And some stuff some Celiac researchers told me.  ?

but Mayo is good too!  ?