Your Perfume May Be Killing You

Man-made perfume obviously are not the same as plant oils. According to Health Impact News, the man-made kind of perfume may actually be toxic and can harm your health. In some people even causing a slow death.

Naturally fragrant essential oils can heal illness, but manufactured scents can make people sick and even cause death. Can you tell the difference? Are man-made artificial fragrances making you ill?

We call the highly fragrant plant oils that are extracted from rose, lemon, and frankincense “essential oils”. These essential oils have the capacity to heal illness when they are inhaled, applied to the skin, or taken orally. Essential oils that have the ability to heal illness must be completely natural and cannot be altered through human intervention.

Essential oils are usually produced through distillation and are expensive to produce. Their availability is often very limited, because large amounts of plant material are required to produce a very small amount of oil, or the plant species are rare. They are also in high demand for medicinal purposes.

Most Fragrances are Synthetic and Inexpensive

Because of the high price and limited availability of essential oils, many large corporations have turned to much less expensive synthetic fragrances for use in their products. Perfumes, colognes, cleaning products, “air fresheners,” laundry products, and most all other household and personal care products contain artificial fragrances made in laboratories from petroleum and coal tar. These man-made smells attempt to imitate the fragrance of essential oils at a tiny fraction of the cost.

Cheap manufactured fragrances enable marketing firms to emphasize their “special fragrances” when they market their products. They often market the fragrance as much as they market the functional purpose of the product. They attempt to get customers to develop brand loyalty based on the scent of the product. Their advertising campaigns attempt to convince consumers that they should want to purchase products that “smell nice” — the way their superior brand smells. Approximately 95% of the fragrance compounds in scented products are synthetic and not made from natural essential oils. [1]

Artificial Fragrances contain Unhealthy Chemicals

Most natural essential oils are quite volatile. They easily dissipate into the air, which is why the smell of roses or lilacs spreads for hundreds of feet from the plant. On the other hand, manufacturers of synthetic fragrances must add toxic solvents to make their synthetic fragrances become volatile so that they can dissipate into the air. They also add toxic chemicals to make the airborne fragrance molecules become sticky so they will cling to clothing, hair, furniture, and skin. This causes the smell to persist for hours or days or months. Additionally, fragrance manufacturers routinely add chemicals that have narcotic and hormone-like effects.

With respect to perfumes and colognes, the chemicals that are added have powerful effects. They ease emotional pain and make people feel good (narcotic effect), or make people feel sexy or attract the interest of the opposite sex (hormonal effect). They also can be carcinogenic. [2]

Exposure to Perfume and Cologne Causes Addiction

Daily exposure to the chemicals in perfumes and colognes create chemical dependency (addiction). As with all other forms of addiction, people tend to use more and more fragrance over time and switch to stronger and stronger fragrances, because they don’t feel the desired effect.

This addiction effect increases sales of perfume and cologne, and builds brand loyalty. There are many people who feel that they are not ready to start the day until they have had their coffee and have put on perfume or cologne. They feel that they are not fully dressed until they put on their scent.

Exposure to Artificial Fragrances Causes Illness

A large number of chemicals that are contained in synthetic fragrance formulas are known to be carcinogenic and neurotoxic. However, the fragrance manufacturing industry is not required to prove safety. Consequently, synthetic fragrances are not evaluated for health risks to adults or children. [3]

Many people spend thousands of dollars trying to solve health problems caused by synthetic fragrances. Numerous conditions clear up when people reduce their exposure to toxic fragrances.

Source: HealthImpactNews.com

Your Perfume May Be Killing You