“If they’ll let you”?!? :eek: Are wipes also considered restricted liquids now?
Forgive my paranoia here. Last time we flew to the US, our luggage went missing for five days (over Christmas weekend, just to add to the fun). So this summer, I was really really hoping that, in spite of the new security-theater restrictions, I’d be able to pack my carry-on with an emergency supply of everything I need to get me through the first day or two. I’ll be a much happier flodnak if I’m not wondering What happens if my suitcase goes missing again? Will I have to use my mother’s awful Zest soap on my dainty little cheeks? So the plan was to take a pack of those pre-moistened wipes instead of my bottle of facial wash. Can I still do that? Can I take them if I can cram them into the obligatory One Liter Zipper-Top Clear Plastic Bag with my toothpaste and moisturizer? Or am I going to risk The Horror That Is Zest if my checked bag develops wanderlust again?
Also, if (dry) stick deodorant is going to cause problems, could someone please break the news to me now?
(Bad enough to have found out after buying the tickets that we’ll be flying with an airline that restricts carry-on bags to 6 kg per person…)
Are you serious? Didn’t you know that moistened wipes can easily be converted to a high explosive compound by mixing them with cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc
This is Jack Bauer typing. I just dispatched the poster known as “Argent Towers” with a 9mm Luger parabellum to the skull. If you even consider bringing moistened fucking baby wipes onto a plane, the last wings you will ever see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.
Since Argent Towers is gone and my location prevents Jack Bauer easy access to me, I will spread the word. Baby Wipes are explosive if mixed with High Capacity Explosives. Hence the need to protect the nation from them crazy wipe users.
Yes, baby wipes are not considered safe under our current regulations (which means it is all up to the mood of the TSA agent you get). Sorry.
Maybe you could borrow or rent a baby somewhere – you are allowed to take such things with you if they’re necessary baby equipment (along with diapers, formula, etc.).
Sometimes you can find facial wash stuff in individual foil packets – you might have better luck with those, since they’d be identified on the packaging. Throw them in your quart-size ziploc bag of toiletries.
AFAIK baby wipes per se are not restricted items. I don’t see them mentioned here. I detect a note of sarcasm in C3’s comment.
That said, if your skin is used to having a mild facial wash applied to it, you might get into allergy or other reaction issues if you suddenly switch to baby wipes. Have you used baby wipes on your face before?
ETA: dry stick deodorants aren’t even mentioned, either.
Sorry! I didn’t mean to cause panic! The only times I’ve flown in the past few years, I had a baby with me. I know they allow certain things for baby care (wipes, formula, diaper cream, etc.), but I wasn’t sure which were not allowed sans baby. I have absolutely no idea whether they’re allowed or not, but I thought he should check it out before he brought the industrial size pack of baby wipes. No sarcasm or anything. I just didn’t feel like doing the research myself .
I’m confused, too. Wouldn’t your mother let you go to Target/Walmart/Kmart/wherever to pick up something more suitable? If I ever lost my luggage, that would be the first place I’d want to go . Socks, undies, toiletries…beats baby wipes, IMO. I know my sister says she used them in Iraq, but I’m sure there are alternatives in any reasonably populated part of the United States. Heck, the smell alone…gag.
IANATSAA (I am not a TSA agent) but I would guess that you could tuck a few pre-moistened wipes into your baggie. Heck, last time I flew, they barely glanced at the baggie…though they did run it through the x-ray machine (so what was the point of the baggie, then?)
Okay, let me explain. First, I’m not talking actual baby wipes, but the little washcloths that are pre-moistened with facial wash. Essentially it’s the same product I use daily at home, just in a different (and more expensive) delivery system which happens to be more convenient for travelling. They do have these in the States, yes?
Second, yes, of course I could buy the stuff when I get there. However, to be blunt, I need my security blanket. I’m always nervous when we fly - not so much about the flying, but about being sealed into a metal tube for eight hours with a couple hundred strangers. I’m very good at coming up with all the bad things that could happen, and after the last incident with missing a connection and having our luggage go astray for so long, I know the possibility of it happening again is going to be a big source of anxiety. Our plane will get in very late, we will be exhausted and jetlagged, and I’d just like to be able to tell myself that in the little backpack at my feet is everything I’ll need to prepare for bed and to get ready to face the next day. Hence my desire to have my own familiar toiletries with me.
The TSA site mentions that “Make up removers or facial cleansers” are, logically enough, one of the things included in the restricted-but-not-forbidden liquids category, but doesn’t mention baby wipes or any other sort of pre-moistened washcloths. I guess I’ll have to keep looking.
The problem is that the function is more like facial cleanser, but the form is pretty much identical to baby wipes. And it’s the form, not the function, that the airport security people are going to care about.
OK, yes I have heard of something like that. If you can get some that come in individual packages (packaged like wet-naps at a restaurant, maybe?) I don’t think you’d have any trouble if you tucked a few in your baggie. It doesn’t sound like the TSA cares for things that are not in their original packaging.
Wasn’t there something in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy about a flight that never took off because they had never gotten in their supply of lemon-soaked paper napkins? I bet Douglas Adams never imagined that such articles would one day be construed as possible weapons of mass destruction!
This article states explicitly that baby wipes are allowed. Although the article is a little old, it did come out subsequent to the most recent liquid ban.
I don’t know how they would go about restricting the wipes with the current rules anyway, as the regulations are based on volume of liquid, which presumably is quite difficult to ascertain in a wipe.
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