<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Again here I am summarizing. But this time about vitamin E. It seems some people are concerned about this potentially containing gluten. And it seems that it's possible, if the base is wheat germ oil. I was mostly concerned about my lipsticks, because I gnaw my lips from time to time, and I'm sure I ingest some lipstick. I have shampoo that has wheat germ oil in it, but my skin isn't very sensitive to gluten (unless I eat it) and I'm not planning to eat any shampoo. I was surprised to find that most major brands of lipstick do not even have an ingredients list on the box or container. This distressed me, because I think this should be illegal. Now that I'm eating much differently from before, I can't imagine purchasing and using a product if I had no idea what was in it! However, I wrote E-mail to various companies (Maybelline, Cover Girl, Lancome, etc.) to ask about lists of GF products in spite of this. These letters were sent over a month and a half ago, and I have heard nothing. I know some companies really don't care (especially about E-mail letters), but to completely ignore potential customers is not good business. I now buy Ecco Bella lipstick at Whole Foods. The only product on their ingredients list (Get this! On each tube of lipstick comes a list of ingredients!) that was iffy in my mind was "vitamin E", and this was what prompted my question to the list. But today I talked to the president of Ecco Bella (also E.B. Botanicals) and she told me that their vitamin E is not made from any gluten-containing ingredient. And they are soft and very pretty-colored lipsticks, as well. In addition to all this information, I also learned from asking this question that vitamin E can be in a soybean base or various other bases, as well. So if a company says they didn't use wheat germ oil, we can believe them because there are numerous other options. Thanks for the answers and the time you all spent writing me! -Christie in Phoenix