“Omg look at this fucking shit, gluten free mascara, ahaha, people need to be fucking stopped.”
Yes, I’m sure the person with a wheat allergy wanting to avoid putting wheat containing things near their eyeballs is truly the reason society is failing.
Also if anyone does actually need gluten free mascara, Zuzu Luxe is one of the best I’ve been able to find. Hardly clumps and doesn’t flake off like a lot of the others. Their other products can be a little hit or miss texture wise, but the mascara is great.
I once saw a person point out that common allergens are in so many things, and it even has to do with “this facility uses it in another product but it’s still the same facility” and I stopped laughing. And then I felt bad. I was ignorant, but I didn’t think about like. My corn tortillas better not have gluten! They’re corn! And then I realized….same facility. Airborne particulates. Someone working on one line, accidentally dropping particulates in another line just by walking past.
Cause there are people who are *that* sensitive. And they deserve to be protected and have safe products.
I specifically do not take issue with people just not knowing things. Cause why the heck would anyone know things like that unless they ever had to? Why would you know wheat is a common ingredient in things like mascara or shampoo? I sure as shit didn’t till I started to piece together why my body went into meltdown every time I washed my hair.
What does get to me is how inherently shitty some people are about it. Like why is the first go to for things like this mockery? Why? I mean I know the answer is “society is inherently abelist even if people don’t realize they are doing it” but I’m still allowed to be frustrated by it. (It’s the same with infomercials. Those products are not lazy or worthless, they are designed for people with disabilities!)
And I know this seems like such an over reaction to something like someone in Walgreens being shitty over gluten free mascara haha. But it’s so much more than that.
So much of my daily life is emotional and mental labor just trying to spoon feed people how not to be unthinkingly mean all the time. And
it’s not like I can ever stop because this is my life. I am living in a
world not designed or meant to include me, so constant emotional and
mental labor is required to justify both myself and the things that make
my life easier.And I wish people would just think with a little more kindness sometimes. That’s all.
Also people have a weird desire to catch you “lying” about an allergy? There’s a preservative used in a lot of artificial caramels that I’m allergic to, and my aunt used to get so mad because she was convinced my mom was lying about it. Once when I was a toddler she offered me a bowl of ice cream with this really smug look on her face while I ate it—a look that quickly died once I started projectile vomiting all over her brand new couch. Yup she hid the caramel in the ice cream.
Feeling miserably sick for a while aside, the look on my aunt’s face at the state of her couch was rewarding
HGSKL ALL THE TIME, PEOPLE DO THIS ALL THE TIME AND IT IS NOT OKAY
wait i’m sorry if this is a dumb question but why in the fuck is there gluten in mascara?
Wheat and wheat by products are common thickening ingredients in a lot of cosmetic products, but it is also used for other properties in cosmetics too. Hydrolyzed wheat protein for example, is often found in anti-ageing creams and some liquid face soaps because supposedly it can help to smooth out the appearance of wrinkles and refine skin texture.
(you’ll sometimes see it listed as wheatgrass or wheatgerm too)So it’s not that unusual to find it in beauty products. Also even if it’s not being used directly in the product, if the product is made in a location that does use wheat for other things (like a face soap) there’s a chance of cross contamination somewhere along the production line. Which is why gluten free certified facilities are a thing for both food and non-food products. To avoid cross contamination.
For some people with celiac and gluten issues, topical application is not a problem. But in others who are more sensitive or have a straight up wheat allergy, it can appear as atopic dermatitis or present as lesions like dermatitis herpetiformis. Or it can be a more severe reaction like anaphylaxis. It all depends on the individual, and those of us with compromised immune systems (such as having an auto-immune disease like celiac disease) are at higher risk of either having or developing those kind of reactions through exposure.
So that’s why 🙂 And why it’s important that things like soaps, shampoos and make up brands etc list whether they are gluten free or not. Although it’s important to note that just because some products are gluten free, that does not make them wheat free, so if your concern is wheat allergy, gluten free brands are a safer bet for you, but it’s also still a good idea to thoroughly check the ingredients.
I want to clarify that if you are celiac you cannot ingest any gluten, a protein from wheat and other related cereal due to this cereals affects the vellosities from the guts destroying them so the nutrients can pass to the circulatory system.
You can put any product with gluten in your skin even you are celiac but not if you have an allergy to wheat because you could have an allergic reaction and a ride to the hospital if it is severe.
Always talk with your doctor and check the labels.
Except for some people with celiac, skin contact absolutely can be enough to trigger some form of reaction 🙂 Not the same kind of reaction they experience through ingesting it i.e. gut and intestinal problems, pain, fatigue, brain fog, etc but problems all the same, usually presenting as some sort of rash or skin problem that no one can figure out until they put two and two together, somehow come up with five, and realize it’s the stuff they’re applying to their skin topically.
It’s not generally how celiac works, and the research on it is limited (but lets face it, a lot of the medical criteria for diagnosing and treating celiac is poorly done to begin with. I know so many people who were diagnosed later in life after significant damage was done because they were told they didn’t have celiac cause their doctor only did the blood test and not the biospy) but it is not impossible either, and there’s quite a few people in the notes with celiac chiming in to talk about issues with skin sensitivity reactions—who do not have a wheat allergy.
It was my own immunologist who told me about gluten and skin sensitivities. And he’s not some crunchy hippy “I got my degree online” doctor either. Proper board certified fully licensed “seen a lot of weird cases so I keep an open mind and listen to my patients” doctor.
So, y’know, yes what you are saying is typically thought to be true, but it’s not the exclusive celiac experience either.
