We put in the used lotion tissues without any problem at all. They disappear in a very short time. Most of our bins have both night crawlers and red wigglers in them. The area I started some of my bins had night crawlers left to grow as fishing bait. Over time, they have colonized quite a few of the bins, and often seem to do well in them. In a richly fed bin that is not turned or disturbed too often I often find some huge worms.
Renais

Ignore the text on the link. The second and third picture on this page have a possible ingredient list of lotion tissues: http://foodbabe.com/2012/04/09/its-allergy-season-are-you-using-toxic-tissues/ The list would not cut and paste and I can't type all those long words.

Because you "rarely have paper products to put in my worm bin" it is 50/50 to use them or not. Your choice.

Maybe if you look around some other carbon sources will appear. After a while vermicomposers start looking at all items as either nitrogen, carbon or as a possible bin.

Here is a link that might be useful: Same Lotion Tissue Link As Above

This post was edited by equinoxequinox on Sat, Jan 17, 15 at 9:59

I'd be less concerned with the lotion in the tissue than the pathogens in the blown mucus. Why is that not a concern?

To paraphrase Chucke,

If it came out of the far side of a worm it is edible.

Or something like that.

I think studies have shown the bathroom door handle many grab to leave the bathroom and the water faucet handle one turns off after washing contains more germs than the inside of the inside of the toilet bowl that is frequently rinsed with cold, fresh water.

Human bodies are designed to fight germs. If there are no germs to fight the body finds something to fight even if there is only itself to fight against. Doctors have helped some people by giving them capsules of microbes in waste of healthy individuals to replace what has been lost due to antibiotics.

"pathogens in the blown mucus" are not a concern in the worm bin. They, if any, would be quickly over run by a bevy of mystery organisms, some better, maybe even some worse.

Having unvacinated children who have spent time in the non tourist, i.e. way non sterile areas, living as part of indigenous families in a few cities in each of the countries of Japan, China, India, Turkey, the country of South Africa and even Disney Land, where we were banking on chicken pox but failed.

I would feel comfortable with the the mucus of these tissues in my bin. The dioxide bleached fibers? Runs away in horror.

But then again. Once a worm eats the bleached fibers ... I'll maybe run slower.

Thank you all for your responses! I was having problems logging back in as latebloomer23 so I signed in using Facebook.

I think for now I'll stay away from the lotion tissues in the bin. I wouldn't be worried about putting my regular clear snot into the bin, maybe if I was ill, but even then... I think anything that comes out of us (not including anything in the digestive system) would be safe for the bin, even urine when diluted can be added I read, but I'll respectively decline doing that myself :)

Again, thank you all for the advice!