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Toxic chemicals in your air freshner? Believe it!
Snehal , mumbai: Aug 25 2008
Made Popular Aug 27 2008

Toxic chemicals in your air freshner? Believe it!The Natural Resources Defense Council recently performed a test on air freshener products. It was discovered that these air
sprays contain harmfull chemicals which affects humans. Various chemicals which caused predominantly harmfull illness such as Phthalates which is known to cause reproductive problems and hormonal imbalance in the human body.
It is also found that these air freshners contain carcinogenic chemicals which affects our lungs as we breath in these fragrances...
The Food and Drug Association(FDA) and The US Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) have failed to perform any spot checks as well as safety checks to inspect the presence of toxic chemicals.
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) a part of the National Institutes of Health, found that exposure to a volatile organic compound (VOC), called 1,4 dichlorobenzene (1,4 DCB) may cause unassuming reductions in lung function.

Moreover consumer’s can be exposed to various health hazardous chemicals which could complicate the human body functions. The soundness of the chemicals used in the products is completely ignored by the FDA. It has been observed that the FDA is practically making no attempts to safeguard American consumers from cancer-causing, hormone disrupting, lungs affecting chemicals in almost all the consumer products. Had it not been for the efforts of The National Research and Development Centre no one would be trying to protect the consumers.Only the two products tested by the NRDC — Febreze Air Effects and Renuzit Subtle Effects — comprised of nearly no recognizable levels of phthalates, yet the twelve other products tested positive for the chemical even though some were labelled “unscented” and none of them listed phthalates as an ingredient. Some products were even labeled “All natural!” (Which just goes to demonstrate, that the “All natural” claim is so very untrue.)
Our bad luck is that we can walk down to any popular retailer and find hundreds of different products such as laundry detergents, skin creams, cosmetics, pet products, household cleaners, car cleaners, dish soap, perfumes, shampoos and many other consumer products regularly used by us which comprises of dangerous chemicals, many of which are well known to provoke cancer.
Ofcourse, most consumers are in a dark about the fact of consumption of cancer-causing chemicals, and most retailers seem to have no interest whatsoever in testing their products for the presence of these dangerous chemical substances.

By the time the average consumer leaves their home in the morning, they’ve already poisoned their liver, pancreas, kidneys, heart, lungs and brain. its high time to think over this sad plight that the consumers have been draged into unknowingly.

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Sasmita
pune, India
Snehal, your news disturbs me a bit. I love perfumes, I love to use them almost daily. I feel intoxicated by the sweet poweful fragrance, whether it’s of body-spray or any flower or anything else. The very thought of toxic chemical is heart-breaking. I know many do love perfumes a lot and can’t help using it.
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Snehal
mumbai, India
i can understand how heart broken you are... same goes for me... i love perfumes too... but thats the sad truth and must be accepted...
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