3:3:1 question

[rie'smom]

According to the FAA website, all that has to go into the bag are gels and liquids, right? So face creams are excluded? Mine isn't a liquid and not a gel. What about mascara? It isn't a liquid or a gel. Just don't want the agents to throw out anything.

 

[LilyWDW]

According to the FAA website, all that has to go into the bag are gels and liquids, right? So face creams are excluded? Mine isn't a liquid and not a gel. What about mascara? It isn't a liquid or a gel. Just don't want the agents to throw out anything.

Face cream will most likely count. Most face creams I can think of may be about the texture of peanut butter or so... and PB is considered a liquid/gel and would have to meet the requirements.

Think of it this way... if you took it out of the container, would it hold its shape? If not, it has to go in the baggie.

 

[Alesia]

Face cream and mascara are gels, as is anything else that doesn't hold it's shape outside of it's container.

 

[MHSweb79]

When in doubt, count it as a liquid.

My DD had a Chap Stick confiscated. Not a tube of lip gloss, but an actual "turn the wheel to crank it up" Chap Stick.

 

[rie'smom]

Ok, thank-you. I will leave room in my bag for those things. Last trip in November, airport security didn't even ask to see the bag.

 

[DebbieB]

The reason for the limitation is there was a terror threat where explosives were going to be mixed with liquids to conceal them (tooth paste I think). So any substance that could be mixed is included.

 

[CPT Tripss]

The whole concept is sort of nonsensical. Tooth paste holds its shape just fine when pushed out of the tube . . . same can be said for peanut putter. Yet these are prohibited items.

Then there is powder, talc/baby powder is a solid, but won't hold its shape, but it's OK . . . powdered baby formula doesn't hold its shape yet it too is OK. Then consider taking a couple or three innocuous powders and mixing them together. Might just be able to make an explosive.

It's all just feel good theater that does nothing to improve security.

 

[rie'smom]

The whole concept is sort of nonsensical. Tooth paste holds its shape just fine when pushed out of the tube . . . same can be said for peanut putter. Yet these are prohibited items.

Then there is powder, talc/baby powder is a solid, but won't hold its shape, but it's OK . . . powdered baby formula doesn't hold its shape yet it too is OK. Then consider taking a couple or three innocuous powders and mixing them together. Might just be able to make an explosive.

It's all just feel good theater that does nothing to improve security.

I feel the same way. If someone wants to bomb a plane, they won't try to sneak the stuff on a plane in luggage, they'll just do it another way.