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quick check for salicylates

It is very easy to check products. Use this guide and you can't go wrong!!

Gather up everything you take as a medication including prescription, over the counter, vitamins, and supplements and any product you apply to your skin.
 
LOOK AT THE LIST OF INGREDIENTS--Below are listed all the things you CANNOT use. If you do not see one of these on the label, the product is okay to use!!!
 
NO: SALICYLATE, SALICYLIC ACID
 
NO: CHEMICALS WITH THE SYLLABLE SAL-, CAMPH-, OR MENTH-
 
NO OILS, GELS or EXTRACTS with a PLANT NAME
(except Corn, Rice, Oats, Wheat, or Soy which you CAN use)
 
NO BALSAM OR BISABOL
 
SUNSCREENS: No Octisalate, Homosalate, Mexoryl, or Meradimate
 
VITAMINS: Make sure there are no BIOFLAVINOIDS or QUERCETIN, HESPERIDEN or RUTIN, or any HERBAL INGREDIENTS (plant oils or extracts)
 
ANY PRODUCT WITH A FLAVOR: Make sure the flavor is not mint (of any kind: wintergreen, spearmint, peppermint, etc) and that it does not contain MENTHOL, CAMPHOR, or SALICYLATE.
 
DO NOT DRINK TEA 
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