I Burt's Bees Baby Bee Lotion Gluten Free

Recently, I had a look through the Burt'south Bees website after a customer chosen to order my private label nut oil free lip balm (the product has now been discontinued). She and her allergic daughter had been using a lip balm that contained her allergen, and she couldn't supervene upon it speedily enough. I was shocked at the number of food allergens contained in their products. I found almond repast, almond oil, pecan shells, macadamia nut oil, wheat germ oil, soy bean oil, cows' milk, and other food allergens.  This makes me cringe as the parent of an allergic child.

Almond oil is in thirteen products: The citrus facial scrub, baby bee diaper ointment, almond milk beeswax paw foam, hand relieve, mama bee nourishing body oil, beeswax and banana hand creme, super glossy lip smooth, lemon butter cuticle foam, honey lip balm, radiance night creme, baby bee fragrance free shampoo & launder, beeswax lip lotion tin, and dominicus protecting spf 8 lip lotion.

Source: http://www.burtsbees.ca/SearchResults?storeId=10201&catalogId=12452&langId=-12&query=%22almond+oil%22&ddkey=http:ProgressiveSearch Accessed 27 September 2011

Hither is the ingredient listing from the baby shampoo, which thankfully discloses almond in English, in add-on to its Latin course, which is prunus amygdalus dulcis:

"aqua (h2o, eau), decyl glucoside, carthamus tinctorius (safflower) oleosomes, glycerin, sodium cocyl hydrolyzed soy protein, aloe barbadensis leafage juice, coco-glucoside, glyceryl oleate, avena sativa (oat) kernel flour,, aniba rosaeodora (rosewood) wood oil, coriandrum sativum (coriander) fruit excerpt, cedrus atlantica bark oil, prunus amygdalus dulcis (sweet almond) oil, xanthan gum, citric acid, glucose, sodium chloride, sodium benzoate, glucose oxidase, lactoperoxidase, linalool

Source: http://www.burtsbees.ca/natural-products/pilus-shampoos/babe-bee-fragrance-free-shampoo-launder.html Accessed 3 October 2011

I was very surprised to find "pecan shell powder" in the ingredients of the citrus facial scrub. This is in improver to sweetness almond oil, finely ground almonds, oat kernel flour, orange peel pulverisation, grapefruit extract, soybean oil, nutmeg, cloves, rosemary, and canola oil. That's a huge list of food allergens that could easily be disregarded in a facial scrub! You can read the full ingredients listing by clicking hither.

Macadamia nut oil is in the shea butter hand repair creme, forth with sunflower seed oil, sesame seed oil, shea butter, cocoa seed butter, soybean oil, canola oil, and vegetable oils.

Source: http://www.burtsbees.ca/natural-products/hands-and-feet-hand-moisturizers/shea-butter-manus-repair-creme.html Accessed 3 Oct 2011

Wheat germ oil is in 3 products: baby bee nourishing baby oil, mama bee nourishing body oil, and the peppermint foot lotion. Again, I appreciate that the allergens are disclosed by their English names, but I am surprised to see so many food allergens in the products. To view the foot lotion ingredient list, click hither.

Soybean oil is in 37 Burt's Bees products. Some of the products that include soybean oil are the ultra conditioning lip balm with kokrum butter, lip shimmer, paw slave, lemon butter cuticle cream, baby bee nourishing baby oil, infant bee diaper ointment, beeswax lip lotion tin can and tube, tinted lip balm, super glossy lip smooth, baby bee fragrance free and original lotion, and the radiance torso lotion. To see the full list of soybean oil containing products, click hither.

For those who are dairy allergic, cows' milk is in 6 products: naturally nourishing milk & shea butter body launder, improved naturally nourishing milk & honey body lotion, almond milk beeswax hand creme, infant bee getting started kit with buttermilk soap, improved soothingly sensitive aloe & buttermilk lotion, and infant bee original balm.

Source:  http://www.burtsbees.ca/SearchResults?query=milk&storeId=10201&catalogId=12452&langId=-12&ddkey=http:ProgressiveSearch Accessed four October 2011.

Hither is the naturally nourishing milk & shea butter body launder ingredients listing, which contains nonfat dry milk, likewise referenced past its French name, poudre de lait écrémé : Aqua (water, eau), decyl glucoside, carthamus tinctorius (safflower) oleosomes, sodium cocoyl hydrolyzed soy protein, glycerin, parfum (fragrance), coco-glucoside, glyceryl oleate, sine adipe lac (nonfat dry milk, poudre de lait écrémé), butyrospermum parkii (shea butter), xanthan gum, glucose, citric acid, sodium chloride, glucose oxidase, lactoperoxidase, benzyl salicylate, amyl cinnamic aldehyde

http://www.burtsbees.ca/production-line/naturally-nourishing/naturally-nourishing-milk-shea-butter-torso-launder.html

Accessed 4 October 2011

The Aloe & Buttermilk balm contains buttermilk powder, besides referred to every bit butyris lac. It'due south also in the Baby Bee Original Lotion, which also discloses it equally babeurre en poudre. When I search the Burt'southward Bees site for buttermilk (rather than milk), also added to the search results are the Baby Bee Fragrance Free Lotion and the Fragrance Free Shea Butter & Vitamin East Trunk Lotion. These were non included in the search results when I searched "milk" alone.

Source: http://www.burtsbees.ca/SearchResults?query=buttermilk&storeId=10201&catalogId=12452&langId=-12&ddkey=http:ProgressiveSearch Accessed 4 October 2011

If you take nutrient allergies and still plan to use these products, please read the ingredient lists with neat care. If you do find a product that doesn't contain your allergens, delight also brand inquiries about the risk of cross-contamination by contacting Burt's Bees. Their contact information is here:  http://www.burtsbees.ca/u/contact-us.html

If you're wondering if substances applied to the pare can cause anaphylaxis, they tin: "When trying to determine the cause of an anaphylactic reaction, physicians and patients generally consider substances that had been ingested or injected, merely may fail to consider agents that had been applied to the skin. However, the systemic assimilation of many topically applied substances is well known, and in fact is used as the drug delivery system of pick (via transdermal patches) for such items as nicotine, scopolamine, and hormone replacement therapy. It must therefore be remembered that any topical application that is capable of causing systemic absorption is as well capable of provoking systemic IgE mediated allergy—and not simply cell-mediated contact dermatitis. Click here to the full commodity past Dr. Jeffrey Miller.

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