over scented world

Whisperwindkat · #21 04/19/12, 06:21 AM

We have an unscented home as well and I have found that since I cut out all artificial scents that I am much more sensitive to them. Many times I will get a headache from smelling some of the strong scents and have actually had to leave restaurants because of someone's perfume. Why do folks think they have to take a bath in the stuff?!!

Cliff · #22 04/19/12, 07:58 AM

I am also very sensitive to perfumes. My pet peeve is nurses who wear perfume. It's bad enough for me to have to be around them but I can walk away. Their poor patients can't

I hate it when my neighbor upwind does laundry. I can smell that awful perfume inside my house if the windows are open. There house isn't very close either.

I think most people are so clueless they don't even notice if this stuff bothers them re allergies etc. They just plod along doing the same thing everyone else does and if they have allergies or a headache they take a pill.

ronbre · #23 04/19/12, 08:28 AM

when our power went out we had a back up stash of candles (all scented candles) and we all got sick from having them burning in the house..

we'll hopefully learn a lesson and when we get NEW candles in the future we'll buy unscented..but in the meantime have cabinets full of scented candles..yuk

chickenista · #24 04/19/12, 09:26 AM

Yep.. homemade laudry soap here too and yep.. gagging on other people's dryer sheets.

And the cleaning aisle in the grocery store.. egads! My eyes burn, my nose, my throat and I am not a sensitive person who has issues with odors and such.

What gets me even worse is salt!!!
I just don't use much salt in my cooking.
And it is now impossible for use to eat out etc.. because of the huge amounts of salt in foods. It burns our mouths. And then it makes us feel like crap..

And poor DS.. we went out to eat with friends and got fries done in a deep fat fryer. We were sick for hours adn both of our tummies were all swollen and tight. We belched, we groaned, we moaned and vowed to never, ever eat again.

I asked DS if I was doing him a disservice by feeding him well and not letting the enzymes etc.. that can break down greasy food build up in his system. He swears that he is fine with not being able to digest it. He just says that he will have to think about what he eats because he never wants to feel that way again...

Ardie/WI · #25 04/19/12, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by mommathea

I use all unscented laundry stuff, no perfume, dh wears some but he keeps it light. I don't buy a shampoo based on what it's for but if it has a light almost unscented smell.
For cleaners it's mrs meyer lavender stuff or vinegar w/eos. I can't stand anything else.
I get a headache just from walking down the cleaning isle. And can tell if someone is doing laundry a mile away. I can't stand the stink of laundry detergents and fabric softeners. I get sick to my stomach.
And don't get me started on febreeze. NASTY stuff. Gives me an instant headache.

Did you ever see those nasty commercials for Febreeze? I about gag!

They take people blindfolded into a dirty, raunchy room sprayed with Febreeze and ask them what they can smell. Of course the replies are that it all smells fresh and clean.

Now, when I see Febreeze on the grocery shelf, all I can think about is that ugly smelly room!

DamnearaFarm · #26 04/19/12, 10:18 AM

The reason some folks smell like they bathed in fragrance is because they probably did. Their noses lose sensitivity to the scent they wear, so they have to apply more and more just to be able to smell it at all.

The cleaning aisle at stores takes my breath too.

soulsurvivor · #27 04/19/12, 11:25 AM

I live in an area that used to have crisp clean air outdoors. That's no longer true most days. I'm in a rural area with dairy farms so I know and expect the typical smells of living in the country. But what I'm smelling isn't that. It's something else and I don't like it because it scares me to think it's everywhere outside. I think the earth is gassing off. So often it smells rotten like when a pond or lake is turning over. Sometimes the wind smells like burned matches, animal castration, sulphur, dirty feet bo, mold, chemical rose juice, or rotten eggs. And if the air feels like grit and sand then I'm inside to stay. It depresses me to no end when I have to look at my world through the window.

The only purchased scents are citrus and mild at that. My shampoo is a mild madarin orange. Dish liquid and cleaners are mild citrus/lemon. Laundry is no scent. All candles are no scent. I have those old Yankee Candle jar candles sitting in the cabinet too, but they're a light of last resort.

mommathea · #28 04/19/12, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Ardie/WI

Did you ever see those nasty commercials for Febreeze? I about gag!

They take people blindfolded into a dirty, raunchy room sprayed with Febreeze and ask them what they can smell. Of course the replies are that it all smells fresh and clean.

Now, when I see Febreeze on the grocery shelf, all I can think about is that ugly smelly room!

yesterday I was watching TV and one of those commercials came on and I swear I could smell that nasty chemical fragrance.

HOTW · #29 04/19/12, 11:29 AM

Same issue herein this house,unscented homemade soaps, detergetn, clean with vinegar, EO'setc. Even DH has a homemade aftershave, and now working in a cprorate officehe is overwheled at times by the smells. He saysits hard after not being aorund people liek that for so long that he now knows howI feel whenver we go anythwere, just last night a server at th restaurant we went for date night was killing us just walking by!

soulsurvivor · #30 04/19/12, 11:37 AM

The last time I stayed in a hotel it was a huge issue with the Fabreeze they used to clean the rooms. I made them tranfer me to a room they hadn't cleaned in a long time so I could get some relief. They offered me a free night's stay but I told them I wouldn't be needing that and refused it.

I'm so glad to be out of the work environment and the foul air of mixed scents everywhere. I often had to participate in meetings held in small conference rooms and when even one person is wearing too much perfume the situation becomes almost a life and death need to hurry up and get out of there.

I think it should be workplace policy to ban all perfumes and chemical scents.

HOTW · #31 04/19/12, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by soulsurvivor

I think it should be workplace policy to ban all perfumes and chemical scents.

I sing with a group and we give free concerts and every concert they remind everyone not to wear perfumes, and everytime I have an issue wih someone whofelt thrsmellystuff was OK to wear. I wish the group would issue a list of allowable to wear and not allowable! People haeno ideathat their hand creams, plus their hairspray, and their body lotion all add up to pretty untenable conditions for thoseo f us with reactions to fragrance oils!

Ardie/WI · #32 04/19/12, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by soulsurvivor

The last time I stayed in a hotel it was a huge issue with the Fabreeze they used to clean the rooms. I made them tranfer me to a room they hadn't cleaned in a long time so I could get some relief. They offered me a free night's stay but I told them I wouldn't be needing that and refused it.

I'm so glad to be out of the work environment and the foul air of mixed scents everywhere. I often had to participate in meetings held in small conference rooms and when even one person is wearing too much perfume the situation becomes almost a life and death need to hurry up and get out of there.

I think it should be workplace policy to ban all perfumes and chemical scents.

DH's corporate offices are "NO SCENTS, PLEASE!" He likes that because there was one woman who they could smell before she entered the front door.

chickenista · #33 04/19/12, 12:54 PM

I haven't encountered too many women with heavy perfumes.
For me, it is the men!
They must just pour cologne over their heads.
If I can smell you from 10 ft away, that is just too much...

The worst offender is one of the guys (loaders) at the feed store.
Good grief!
I can smell him before he comes around the building.

tailwagging · #34 04/19/12, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by jd4020

Deodorants or anti perspirents have been replaced with baking soda.

is there a trick to use it? or do you just powder it on?

chewie · #35 04/19/12, 07:41 PM

I made some by using bee's wax, cornstarch and soda. google homemade deo and you'll find recipes.l works and cheap and simple and nooo smell!

tailwagging · #36 04/19/12, 07:44 PM

cool
thanks

jd4020 · #37 04/19/12, 09:44 PM

I just have a small plastic container with baking soda. After showering I dip my slightly damp fingers in it and pat it on. It does not stop wetness, but does take care of odor for the day.
jd

nodak3 · #38 04/20/12, 11:47 AM

We go scentless and mostly homemade products also.

It is kind of funny when friends "convert" to that.

Often as the perfumes fade in their clothing, the stench of OLD SWEAT becomes overpowering.

Usually they have to power up to hot or warm water with borax for a few washes to jar loose the old body oils and bacteria.

But I've had several tell me that after they went scentless, they can tell by smell if their washer/detergent are getting the clothes clean or not.

Once they adjust their agitation, or water temp, or detergent amount, or whatever they need for their situation to get truly clean clothes, staph and yeast infections tend to disappear, as well as sinus troubles and skin breakouts.

We used to do laundry to CLEAN clothes.

Now we focus on swishing them around until they lose their wrinkles, and add some so called perfume so they don't stink.

Helena · #39 04/20/12, 10:28 PM

My sister husbands has allergies and asthma.. Needless to say, she continues to use perfumed detergent and fabic softeners. Of course, they live in a gated community that does not allow you to hang your clothes outside on a clothes line !!

I mentioned to her about the smells a nd her husbands breathing...but hasn't changed anything. Yes I agree..the world is too "smelly"..

mnn2501 · #40 04/21/12, 09:12 AM

On the few occasions when I go grocery shopping during the day time, there are lots of Seniors there and as you age your sense of smell decreases. Unfortunately their answer to this is to douse themselves even more with their perfume so they can smell it. Some of them literally make me physically ill.
Its not always seniors, it seems like teens are buying into the 'Axe' cologne commercials that the more stink you wear the more sexual playmates you will get.