Perfumes Find Their Way Into Human Breast Milk

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Bridestein — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:01:59 GMT

The best website for this subject (and everything else) is http://www.ewg.org/
Environmental Working Group; The Power of Information
You can look up Health & Beauty Brands and other interesting items like the Farm Subsidy Database where you enter a zip code and see who's receiving subsidies in your neighborhood. And lots more. Check it out!

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wassily — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:23:06 GMT

Ozy ness - I feel for you, having to be exposed to smelly work colleagues. When I used to go out to work, one person in particular obviously used to keep mothballs in their drawers and wardrobes - ugh! Mmmmm! just love that formaldehyde fragrance! On the rare occasions I go shopping, I'll get several whifffs of petrochemicals and that will finish me off for the rest of the day, as it results in a raging aching head, cold flannel and bed. You're spot on about the smelly aisles in the supermarkets - our nearest supermarket has the pet food in the same aisle as the nasty detergents. Solution: don't buy my collie dog that manky stuff: take the trouble to prepare it myself with stuff from farmers market.

Regarding visitors to home - that's a real problem! You can spend so much effort and money in clearing out that muck from your home, and just one visitor wrecks it all - and the pong stays for weeks. It is a really hard job asking people to 'clean' themselves before visiting you, and they forget so easily, especially when doing their ablutions in the mornings. All of this rubbish should just be banned. At least you lot in America are more clued up about it, especially in public places. Here in UK, people just think you're mad!

But just imagine this: evidently some European fashion houses actually market perfume for babies! I think my physical reaction to the stink is just my body system reacting as it should - "get me out of here!". But imagine what it's like for a wee babby who's doused with the rubbish, or gathered up to her mother's neck ..... but can't run away from it! Yet another cause of behavioural problems, I expect - I know some smells send me into a raging tizzy, even 'natural' ones - as they're used in industrial strengths, sometime

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organicmum — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:36:56 GMT

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Conjeanneal — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:52:49 GMT

I have abhored the chemical scents that the perfume industry has put out for years and whenever standing near someone wearing the lastest designer scent or even the cheapest of the cheap drugstore scents, I have noted that after a while, they all seem to smell the same - like a chemistry lab! Gone are the days when MOST perfumes were made from REAL floral essences - harmless and nonallergenic too! It is my feeling that perhaps some of the really old scents, many still available, may have their original, true, floral-based formulations intact. I believe that books on perfume history would most definitely delineate the natural from the chemical.

Another insidious source of "scent" is the Lysol types used repeatedly in many restrooms. After one uses the room, they have a compulsion to dowse the place with Lysol to obliterate any trace of what has been done there! (Not to be too gross, but there would not be such a horrific odor if people were to eat properly!) This horrendous product hangs in the air LONG after the human smell would have disappeared on its own!! Since the people where I work had to obliterate the human smell ASAP, I suggested that they get a natural air freshener from the health food store. What we are now treated to is the wonderful scent of orange; All I just wish is that we wouldn't have to associate the wonderful, natural, smell of food - in this case orange, with the bathroom!

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Reesacat — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:30:49 GMT

Occasionally I like to dab on a drop of essential lavender oil. You can't reallly smell it unless someone hugs you, and they always say-"You smell fabulous! What kind of perfume are you wearing?"!

I like Patri's trick of putting it in her hair.

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Russ Bianchi — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:22:28 GMT

Many fragrances applied topically to the body, fall under US Cosmetic Law, with the FALSE premise that the constituent components are not internally absorbed.

Make ups, eye care products, lip products, are also under Cosmetic Law, full of these bad for you chemicals.

Based on this FALSE assumption of safety under US Cosmetic Law, many substances, chemical compounds, and non GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) excipients, or ingredients, in the many thousands, are REGULARLY used, that indeed are allergenic, even topically, if not HARMFUL or TOXIC to health.

Air fresheners, incense, cleaning fluids, soap, detergents, surface cleaners, so called antiseptic wipes, clothing softeners, and many other categories, are also loaded with BAD FOR YOU chemicals.

Another example of bad for you products are ORAL CARE products (toothpastes, tooth whiteners, breath mints, mouthwashes and rinses, breath tabs, chewing gums, breath sprays).

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Katy B — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:33:06 GMT

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Josh Rubin — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:30:05 GMT

Rule of thumb: If you can't eat it, don't wear it! Most and if not all of anything you put on your skin is absorbed into the body. Even just sitting in bubble bath water, going in a pool, the ocean etc. So whatever you eat, have eaten, do to your body, put on your body, etc will and does have a large affect on not only your body, but your childs.