My life is Weird

When it comes to bathrooms, transgender people aren’t the perpetrators. Too often, we’re the ones in need of protection.

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WARNING - PLEASE READ IF YOU HAVE A PEANUT ALLERGY AND LIKE TO SHMEAR MAKEUP ON YOUR SKIN TO MAKE YOU LOOK AS FLAWLESS AS YOUR PERSONALITY

I am one such an individual, and last night I was super pumped to try this concealer. Out of curiosity I read the ingredients and saw something called arachidyl behenate.

Anything with the root “arachi” such as “arachis oil” is probably peanut related. And, sure enough, I did some research and arachidyl behenate is peanut-derived. Which is the story of how I nearly smushed a deadly food allergen into my skin.

There’s a report here from last year that seems to indicate that some food allergens are neutralized when processed for cosmetics, but I’m not sure that applies for peanuts. And at any rate, they did indicate there was still a risk of a reaction if such proteins weren’t processed properly.

Now, I’m gonna say it outright - I’m not one hundred percent sure that a heavily processed peanut-derived chemical such as arachidyl behenate will cause a reaction. I’ve worn a lot of makeup over the years without checking the ingredients, so I could have easily used a product containing it without knowing. Still, better safe than sorry.

Alternate names for peanut products (anything with the prefix “arachi-” should be considered suspect):

beer nuts, earth nuts, goobers, groundnuts, groundnut oil, hypogaeic acid, katchung oil, mandelonas

A full list can be found here, another cosmetic-specific one here.

Here’s some articles on the subject:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11558642

http://www.national-toxic-encephalopathy-foundation.org/peanuts-in-cosmetics/

http://cosmeticsinfo.org/ingredient/hydrogenated-peanut-oil

http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/ingredient/700482/ARACHIS_HYPOGAEA_(PEANUT)_OIL/

gives you flashbacks of traumatic events

sends you into an agonizing panic attack

makes your heart skip beats from sheer terror

it does not

mildly offend you

make you feel uncomfortable

gross you out

make you angry

“Someone needs to get their secrets.”

(looks at Javert)

“Absolutely not, I am not going in with the schoolboys.”

“Oh, alright, we just figured you would blend in the best, what with your youthful energy; after all, you dont look a day over thirty.”

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Hey, I wanted to give away the Nintendo New 3DS XL! I’ve been feeling good and I’m ready to do this, I hope you want to participate.

Prizes:

One New 3DS XL 

One 3DS game of your choice

Rules:

Don’t have to be following me but it’d be nice!

Only reblogs count.

That means like don’t count, sorry.

No giveaway blogs, please.

If this hits 1k+ notes, I’ll add another game.

Giveaway ends May 23rd, 2015.

phew guys calm down.