AIR FRESHENERS AND AEROSOLS
Who would have thought that air fresheners could be harmful?
In a major longitudinal study, frequent use of air fresheners during pregnancy and early childhood was associated with higher levels of diarrhea, earache in infants, and headaches, depression in mothers.
In New Scientist a 1999 study revealed that in homes where aerosol sprays and air fresheners were used, mothers experienced 25% more headaches and were 19% more likely to experience depression.
ARE YOUR AIR FRESHENERS KILLING YOU?
It’s rare that we know what ingredients are in those air freshening products. Those products that scent everything from bathrooms, toilets, our friends homes, those stinky paper scented pine trees dangling from car rearview mirrors, and so forth. Unless we have the opportunity to read the list of ingredients we have no idea what it is that we’re exposing ourselves and children to.
Many commonly sold products do not even list the ingredients! Now that’s scary!!
For some of us, our noses tell us when we are inhaling a toxic chemical and we may have symptoms of burning noses and eyes, coughing, sneezing, upset stomaches, headaches, asthmatic responses, and more.
For me personally, when I go into any store or household that sells/uses anything with toxic ingredients my sinuses and eyes burn so badly that it makes me want to protest and get the stores to stop selling those poisons to people. I actually think it should be criminal to manufacture and sell such poisonous products to uninformed innocent people. And we wonder why the health of Americans is so bad.
The main toxin in room fresheners, urinal cakes, moth balls and certain things like paints, cleaning products, and vehicle exhaust fumes is 1,4 dichlorobenzene (1,4 DCB). A recent National Institute of Environmental Health Services (NIEHS) study published in Environmental Health Perspectives showed that among 953 adults 1,4 DCB was linked to a reduction in lung function. See what’s in the products you’re buying!
Go into your cabinets and see if any of the products in your home contain 1, 4 DCB.
Labels often omit inactive or inert ingredients that make up 90% of that products volume.
We don’t really know what’s in these products because it is not required that the manufacturors list or even test the ingredients.
We also do not know what “new” toxin is created when they mix several different chemicals together.
About a month ago, I went into a local department store to purchase common products people buy and use daily for a presentation I was to make. This was something I haven’t done in 20 years… I was horrified by what I saw in shoppers carts and in total shock by what I did not see on the labels.
I couldn’t believe how many of these products didn’t even list ingredients. These products did carry “warnings: do not inhale vapors. If inhaled immediately go outdoors for air.”
Hello… that is a POISON warning!
People buy this stuff thinking they’re making their lives better, their homes smell nicer, cleaner, safer??? YIKES!
Of the over 17,000 chemicals used in these products only 3 in 10 are ever tested for human safety.
I wouldn’t allow those products in my home if they gave me a free lifetime supply!
Get Young Living Diffusers and essential oils here!
HERE’S HOW YOU CAN FRESHEN YOUR AIR WITHOUT POISONING YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY
By using therapeutic-grade organic essential oils you will be significantly cutting down or eliminating unwanted microbes, such as fungus, mold, pathogenic viruses and bacteria – and – your house or office will smell incredible!
Learn about diffusers on this page. You NEVER want to heat an essential oil as heat will destroy the beneficial properties.
And remember, the essential oils found in the stores are ‘perfume-grade’, which simply means they can be derived from any source, synthetic-chemical fragrances, and sold very cheaply to the uninformed public.
See my previous posts on essential oil quality: Intro to Therapeutic-grade Essential Oils and The Experts Agree About Essential Oil Quality. Never expect to get the same results with any store bought essential oil as you will get with a Young Living essential oil.
COLD AIR DIFFUSERS
A cold air diffuser is different than other means of getting an essential oil into the air. It is electric, and nebulizes the essential oil which creates an extremely fine mist that allow the essential oil to permeate your room(s). It uses only cold air. Here is a picture of what one looks like…
Item # 3830
Diffusing essential oils in your home or office is a perfect way to help relieve tension, dispel odors, kill germs & viruses, eliminate and prevent mold, and create an atmosphere of peace and harmony, terrific Feng Shui.
Get a Young Living Diffuser and essential oils here
WHICH THERAPEUTIC-GRADE ESSENTIAl OILS DO I USE?
These are two, among many, terrific choices that I use: Thieves Blend (item # 3423), Purification Blend (item # 3399).
Other Young Living essential oils that I enjoy diffusing are – Citrus Fresh, Lemon, Brain Power, Joy, Orange, Evergreen Essence, Sacred Mountain, and Peace & Calming.
A cold-air diffuser on a light timer so it turns on and off by itself, highly recommended. Use it in your home, office, studio, store, or any indoor place that you would want to freshen the indoor environment safely and effectively.
If I can assist you please contact me.
To your good health!
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July 15, 2008 at 9:51 am
Rita
hello. i believe you are false in the majority of your statements.
recently i was out window shopping at the local dollarama dept. store. and i just haaaad to purchase this alibi brand vanilla ice cream aerosol air freshener manufactured in turkey. upon spraying half the can about 3/4 of the way through a raunchy bowel movement i began to get light headed but happy…
so there you go sir, i believe these high quality products are more of an asset to society than a hindrance.
ok thanks bye.
rita d.j. hernandez
July 15, 2008 at 11:40 am
Evelyn Vincent
Rita… I am a bit confused about whether you think this “alibi brand vanilla ice cream aerosol air freshener manufactured in turkey” is a good thing or bad, and if you agree or disagree.
In either case, I think that any product, whether you’re using a half a can or not, that makes you lightheaded but happy has got to be messing with your brain cells in a negative way… therefore, case in point.