{"id":91,"date":"2010-10-19T20:35:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T00:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/?p=91"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:34:49","slug":"why-call-a-spritz-of-chemicals-an-air-freshener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2010\/10\/why-call-a-spritz-of-chemicals-an-air-freshener\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we call a spritz of chemicals an \u201cair freshener\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Toxic<\/a>

Toxic Air Freshener – The ‘good smell’ is actually some pretty nasty chemicals that are bad for your health.<\/p><\/div>\n

Seriously? The sad truth is we are voluntarily exposing ourselves to some very nasty chemicals everyday simply by ‘freshening’ up our homes, cars and workspaces. ‘Air fresheners’ are mostly a mixture of volatile toxic chemicals and neurotoxins including benzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene, toluene, xylene, acetone, benzaldehyde, methylene chloride \u2026 just to name a few. Your probably thinking “Surely the government wouldn’t let this happen to us. Don\u2019t they monitor these things?\u201d Unfortunately the answer is no, the true chemical makeup of ‘fragrance’ is tightly protected as a \u2018trade secret\u2019.<\/p>\n

Want to know the worst part?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This poisonous \u2018fragrance\u2019 is not only present in \u2018air fresheners\u2019, it has worked its way into virtually everything. Most Shampoos, soaps, perfume\/colognes, cosmetics, detergents, fabric softeners, cleaners, candles \u2026\u00a0 etc, contain synthetic \u2018fragrance\u2019.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re everywhere, so what can we do?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s simple, try to buy \u2018fragrance free\u2019 products, or buy products that use natural ingredients to create their fragrance (ie. If the product smells like lavender, they actually use lavender). There are safe alternatives, you just have to know what you are looking for. Always check the labels of the things you buy and avoid the ones which contain fragrance and\/or parfum. As for safe ‘air freshener’ you can also make your own, use google to find your favorite recipe (there are lots of them out there) or use this one from Life Hacker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information have a look at these sites:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/safecosmetics.org\/article.php?id=644<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.davidsuzuki.org\/publications\/finding-solutions\/e-version\/2010\/why-call-a-haze-of-chemicals-an-air-freshener\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seriously? The sad truth is we are voluntarily exposing ourselves to some very nasty chemicals everyday simply by ‘freshening’ up our homes, cars and workspaces. ‘Air fresheners’ are mostly a mixture of volatile toxic chemicals and neurotoxins including benzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene, toluene, xylene, acetone, benzaldehyde, methylene chloride \u2026 just to name a few. Your probably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178,382],"tags":[275,76,69,73,70,77,68,101,102,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}