| type="text/javascript"> ch_client = "articlealley"; | | | | directory on the gluten free pages site which lists |
| ch_type = "mpu"; ch_width = 590; ch_height = | | | | companies that state that they carry some gluten |
| 250; ch_non_contextual = 4; ch_noborders = 1; | | | | free makeup. |
| ch_vertical ="premium"; ch_sid = "590x250 Article | | | | But similar to the gluten free alcohol industry, it |
| Mixed Top"; ch_alternate_ad_url = " var | | | | appears that there is conflicting views regarding |
| ch_queries = new Array( ); var | | | | the need to reduce the amount of gluten in the |
| ength)); if ( ch_selected < ch_queries.length ) { | | | | beauty industry. Another site suggests that " If |
| ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected]; } If you are | | | | (cosmetics) comes in contact with your nose or |
| worried about gluten in your diet, what about the | | | | mouth you may want that product to be gluten |
| amount that is in your cosmetics? Common sense | | | | free. (ref 1). |
| might suggest that the less contact with Gluten | | | | And even more to the point, a forum member |
| for a celiac, the better. So why then would a | | | | raised the point that "gluten molecules can't |
| celiac cover their body in a gluten or wheat | | | | penetrate the skin ... so why consider using gluten |
| derived cosmetic or makeup? | | | | free cosmetics except for lipstick or chap-stick?" |
| One website makes the argument that in | | | | Like other sites this suggests that gluten should |
| reference to cosmetics: "gluten has more ways | | | | only be a concern in cosmetics if it is likely to be |
| of getting into the body than by the obvious | | | | placed near an orifice. |
| route - it can also get in through the skin." They | | | | So if you are concerned about using cosmetics |
| go on to saying "I have heard since of another | | | | that may contain gluten you should look at using |
| story of someone who had to stop working in a | | | | companies where "each gluten-free product is |
| bakery due to gluten absorption through the | | | | labeled in its description with a gluten-free symbol. |
| hands." (Ref 2). | | | | If you do not see the symbol, that particular |
| For the possibility of these concerns being real, | | | | product is not gluten-free. |
| the Gluten Free Pages have created a beauty | | | | |