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How can I search for the ingredients in lip gloss?

Alan — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:45:25 +0000

My dermatologist told me that I had contact dermatitis which affected my lips and around my mouth. He told me to avoid SPF and Lanolin in any lip cosmetics. Well unfortunately, the lip gloss is too small that they don’t even label it with the ingredients. But Neutrogena lip gloss did have the ingredients which contains Lanolin oils so it’s a no no for me. I’ve been researching for all brands of cosmetics online for about an hour and I cannot find any. I went to webmd but nothing. So, can anybody tell me? I can’t call my dermatologist because I go the Army hospital and it’s just complicated lol

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Cosmetic Ingredients Needed?

Alan — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:43:29 +0000

I need to find the ingredients to Sonia Kashuk eyeshadows. I’ve looked online and can’t find anything. Any help?
Here’s the situation:
My eyelids are extremely sensitive to most eye shadows–one day of wearing eye shadow, and I’m fighting a red itchy rash for two weeks.
The dermatologist diagnosed this as contact dermatitis, meaning I’m allergic to one of the ingredients of eyeshadow (Clinique, Physician’s Formula, Almay, and one of the “mineral” styles). He advised me that if I want to identify the exact ingredient, I could have a patch test done (a 5 day allergy test where each individual commonly known allergen is “painted” on my back in little patches, and I’m checked for allergic reactions over the 5 days). I was going to do it, but wanted to wait until winter (you can’t wash your back for the 5 day time period–ugh). Well, I just found out I’m pregnant, so no testing for me.

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Ingredients Causing Contact Dermatitis?

Alan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:16:15 +0000

So I just recently figured out that I think I have contact dermatitis. For the last month I have had dry, itchy, red, slightly bumpy, scaly skin on my eyelids and they get swollen every once in awhile. I was reading up on it and found out that Quaternium- 15 is a typical ingredient in shampoos and stuff that can cause contact dermatitis. I am desperately trying to figure out what is causing this on me cause I can’t afford a doc, so I looked at my shampoo and found Quaternium- 18. So my question is is that the same as Quaternium- 15? Also, I have heard hydrocortisone cream helps. True? Any other suggestions? Does this sound like contact dermatitis?
Thanks for the help. It is greatly appreciated since I don’t know what else to do and this is driving me crazy.

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