Is stick deodorant a gel?

[HappyCamperToo]

Is stick deodorant considered a gel or can it be carried on a plane? It seems pretty solid to me, but one never knows sometimes.

 

[kaytieeldr]

no

 

[goofy4tink]

If you were to take the 'stick' out of the container and it held it's shape, it's fine. If it were truly a 'gel' and was removed from the container, it would bloop all over the place...not hold it's shape, and therefor not be able to go in carryon bags.

 

[Tinkermommy]

I travel a lot and always carry-on my deodorant (and NOT in the ziploc bag). Make sure it says "solid" on the front of the deodorant just to be safe.

For flying in the US, even if it is a gel you can carry it on if it is less than 3 ounces and fits in the ziploc bag.

 

[HappyCamperToo]

Okay - as you know you were all correct and the stick deodorant was not a problem.

But here's the weird thing. On the way home the airport worker pushing my wheelchair wisked my backpack onto the security conveyor belt before I had time to think of removing the quart bag with the liquids and the bottle with 2 inches of gatorade on the side pouch. The TSA person called out "whose backpack is this?" and when she got my attention she said that the gatorade had to go (of course) but didn't say anything at all about the other liquids. The drink was visible, but I didn't think they opened the pack to look at the other stuff. Weird.

 

[Tina]

I once forgot to pull out my little bag of liquids while going through security. My bag went right on through with no questions asked.

 

[Missytara]

That's interesting, I had the exact opposite.

I forgot to take out the 3-1-1 package going down, at BWI. After it went through the magnatometer, I started to reach for it and the TSA agent grabbed my bag. She admonished me severely for not taking out the package. I apologized, told her I would retrieve it and went to reach for my bag.

She proclaimed that I was not to touch my bag, until she completed her search. She went through my bag for about five minutes.....and then finally handed it back to me, reminding me next time to make sure I took it out before it went through security.

 

[dburg30]

That's interesting, I had the exact opposite.

I forgot to take out the 3-1-1 package going down, at BWI. After it went through the magnatometer, I started to reach for it and the TSA agent grabbed my bag. She admonished me severely for not taking out the package. I apologized, told her I would retrieve it and went to reach for my bag.

She proclaimed that I was not to touch my bag, until she completed her search. She went through my bag for about five minutes.....and then finally handed it back to me, reminding me next time to make sure I took it out before it went through security.

Yea, they really dont like you to help them open your bag if they want to look at it. I had to restrain myself when they were going thru my camera bag as they didnt know exactly how to open it, where the zippers were and then started trying to remove a part of it that wasnt made to be removed! Thank goodness they realized it wasnt made to come apart and didnt pull too hard on it. I can understand them not wanting a person 'helping' them and possibly trying to remove something but they need to also have a little respect for others items..

 

[aubriee]

Okay - as you know you were all correct and the stick deodorant was not a problem.

But here's the weird thing. On the way home the airport worker pushing my wheelchair wisked my backpack onto the security conveyor belt before I had time to think of removing the quart bag with the liquids and the bottle with 2 inches of gatorade on the side pouch. The TSA person called out "whose backpack is this?" and when she got my attention she said that the gatorade had to go (of course) but didn't say anything at all about the other liquids. The drink was visible, but I didn't think they opened the pack to look at the other stuff. Weird.

When I was flying from DFW to Orlando Sept 26th, I was doing carry on only, for the first time. The TSA agent doing the scanning just kept looking at my carry on and finally called another agent over. The second agent asked whose bag it was and then told me he needed to search it. Inside I had a quart bag full of bath salts that just seemed to fascinate him. He shook them around in the bag, opened the bag and smelled them, then finally used one of those little wands with the cloth on the end to rub over them. He even called another TSA agent to inspect them, before finally putting them back in my bag, still looking unhappy. They had a small label on them that said bath salts, but I really thought he was going to confiscate them anyway. Once I got to my resort and unpacked, I noticed that I had forgotten to put my mascara and two tubes of lip gloss in my 3-1-1 bag. They were in the little makeup bag that the TSA agent had to move to get to the bath salts.

 

[Luv2Diz]

I lost faith in the whole TSA security screening process last month at the Los Angeles airport. Because of the airport being spread across several different terminals, our connecting flight left from a different terminal and we had to go through security again. I wasn't able to get to my liquids bag quickly enough so I just put my bag in the scanner and figured a TSA agent would yell at me on the other side. My carry-on went right on through without a problem.....and I had about a dozen small bottles of Mickey shampoo in it from our resort!

 

[Swmr359]

Yea, they really dont like you to help them open your bag if they want to look at it. I had to restrain myself when they were going thru my camera bag as they didnt know exactly how to open it, where the zippers were and then started trying to remove a part of it that wasnt made to be removed! Thank goodness they realized it wasnt made to come apart and didnt pull too hard on it. I can understand them not wanting a person 'helping' them and possibly trying to remove something but they need to also have a little respect for others items..

Weird... Last week I flew out of Columbus Ohio and didn't know I had to take out my dvd player. The guard asked me if I wanted to take it out or if it was ok for him to open up my bag

 

[dburg30]

Weird... Last week I flew out of Columbus Ohio and didn't know I had to take out my dvd player. The guard asked me if I wanted to take it out or if it was ok for him to open up my bag

This was going back to CMH and it was after it went thru the scanner thing. After they got it open, they swabbed a couple of things and checked them, but I guess they werent explosive (good to know as it would've been a suprise to me!!!)

 

[horseshowmom]

I once forgot to pull out my little bag of liquids while going through security. My bag went right on through with no questions asked.

I lost faith in the whole TSA security screening process last month at the Los Angeles airport. Because of the airport being spread across several different terminals, our connecting flight left from a different terminal and we had to go through security again. I wasn't able to get to my liquids bag quickly enough so I just put my bag in the scanner and figured a TSA agent would yell at me on the other side. My carry-on went right on through without a problem.....and I had about a dozen small bottles of Mickey shampoo in it from our resort!

We toured Israel with a group of friends back in March. We were warned about how serious the Israeli govenment was about security (certainly understandable). Members of our group were thoroughly questioned separately to determine the legitimacy of our group as we went through security to leave. It was really a big deal.

We flew to New York, to Atlanta, and on to Memphis. At some point during the trip, one of our friends realized that he had stuck a 20 oz. bottle of water from the Jordan River in his carry-on bag, and nobody had even noticed it. I can't remember whether it was after we got back or whether it was at some point along the way - he might have noticed on the plane and put it in his checked baggage when we got them in New York and went through customs.

Either way, we were amazed. That could have been somebody who was dangerous.

 

[Ctsplaysinrain]

I wish that MCO TSA would have noticed the can of coke that my 13 yr old had accidentally left in his backpack.. Instead, we realized it was there after I guess we hit altitude and the thing popped and we had leaking coke all over every thing in his backpack..

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Snort.

All those security measures? Are there to make people feel like they're secure.