Smell things differently and be aware of good natural orders and man-made chemicals
Orders of food and nonfood
Back last winter I was asked a question and I would like to share it here and expand upon it. A lady that works with my wife got some perform and ask how I liked it and I said it was strong. Now I must expand on this. We have gotten all chemicals as possible from the food we eat to the chemical in our house. I cannot say 100% but I would say we are 60-70% chemical-free.
You ask what does chemicals have to do with the question she ask? Well perfume and anything that is sold to ‘smell’ good are chemicals plain and simple. A whole industry (a chemical industry) was created to manufacturer smells.
Perfumes at one time was made with oils from plants and spices but only a few people could afford it but with manufactured chemicals are cheap and easy to make. Essential oils not only smells awesome but they have a (for the lack of a better word) energy that not only can make you relaxed, happy, calm and even provide healing to the body. The creator gave man the gift of smell for healing, enjoyment of his creation, stimulation of the digestive system and warn of danger.
Fragrances and perfume can be toxic
www.preventcancer.com/consumers/cosme
skin deep cosmetics database
www.ewg.org/skindeep
women warned not to wear perfume during pregnancy kate foster
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/history_of_performe
www.preventcancer.com/consumers/cosmetics/fragrances.htm
www.safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=644
the list of chemicals in performes includes: formaldehyde, toluene, methylene chloride, benzaldehyde petroleum, phthalates. These chemicals have been linked to a wide range of damaging systems including respiratory problem, nervous system issues, reproductive issue like infertility and various forms of cancer. Phthalates are also known to be endocrine disruptions. These harmful effects have the most impact on young children and developing fetuses. In fact pregnant women have been advised to avoid the uses of perfumes altogether due to these ill effects on unborn children.
The range of products that these products synthetic poisons contaminate goes far beyond your most cherished night on the town scent. Fragrance is a common ingredient in air fresheners, cleaning products, lotions, cosmetics, shampoos, baby products.
Trade secrecy laws compiles are not required to disclose what ingredient in their products.
Our cultural fascination with fragrance has spanned back thousand of years. Our ancestors did not a multitude of new area chemicals on their body to achieve an appealing scent through. Instead they often used plants materials to achieve desirable. Modern times have spawned literally thousands of chemicals for use in fragrances.
There are somewhere around 3,000 chemicals that have been identified as being in today’s modern fragrances The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (OSAH) identified at least 900 of these chemicals that are known toxins. This means that these chemicals can cause problems at the cellular level once your body absorbs them transdermally (through the skin).
Constant exposure to these chemicals are causing more people to become chemically sensitive. These individual have more allergic reactions studies have linked some perfume use with several depressive disorder and anxiety in individuals who exhibit sensitivities to chemical fragrances.
With the varying effects of these chemicals has on the nerve cells, they may impair brain function.
Unregulated and unstudied chemical
Campaign for safe cosmetics found in several chemicals in top selling perfumes could cause damage to the thyroid gland. These chemicals has been found to promote cancer in some people. Not only do these chemicals damage the thyroid also add synthetic hormones.
In a laboratory analysis, one popular brands was found to contain more than forty chemicals classified as hazardous to the liver ans yet the FDA still does not require perfume manufacturers ti warn people about these toxic chemicals found in their products.
The moisture in the body causes these chemicals to be adsorbed into the bloodstream.
Environmental working group found synthetic musk chemical galaxolide and ionalide in the umbilical cord blood of new born infants. Diethylphthalate (DEP) was found in 13 of 17 products tested and appeared in 97% of Americans tested by the US Centers of Disease Control. (CDC).
Diethylphthalate: a fragrance solvent commonly use at high concentrations in perfumes and colognes. It has been tested for reproductive system impacts and estrogenic activity. The chemical is associated with effects on the reproductive system in human epidemiological studies (Hubinger 2008).
The list goes on and there are so much research I could write a series of books but I have presented here is long enough. I hope I have sparked something in you, that will do your own research and try your best in living chemical free.
