to not understand why people spend money to pollute their homes with pointless chemicals?

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Maybe to disguise the smell of pets, especially dogs. These scents do not work, in particular when there is more than one dog in a small house, ugh. The scents are harmful to the environment.

Well yes. We are in fact just chemicals. Best hope OP never meets Prof Brian Cox. Water, air. It’s all chemistry.

I am the first to be an inveterate snob about those plug in air fresheners. But I went to a house the other day and the entire ground floor smelt lovely - like clean washing, and i mentioned it - it was from a plug in air freshener.

I absolutely HATE lavender

Old ladies wear lavender, it's disgusting

I assume they do not have asthma. I have to shut my windows when neighbours are drying laundry, as it us a trigger.

I am allergic to air fresheners, fabric conditioners and most perfumes. I always have been just as I am allergic to all make up apart from Clinique and simple products.

People chuck a lot more perfumed products about so for me it’s awful. Plus I’m sure they are getting stronger.

Plug in air fresheners have been linked to asthma

I think in the future they will link far more health issues with fragranced products.

I have windows open, clean with dettol and bicarb, I use a cut lemon warmed up for a natural scent sometimes.

@babyproblems I will check out that author, thanks.

I hate it when I run out of Lenor Unstoppables (deep breaths) aside love my laundry to smell nice. Drying outside? OK but you don't get that nice laundry smell.

I like the smell too! Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to be one of those who says they hate the smells and likes BO. I love the smell of these, but I stopped myself buying them when I read what they do to the water and the environment. I can't justify doing what they do to the world and to the people in it by saying 'I like the smell'. And don't think I'm some eco live-in-the-woods hippie, I'm just a regular person making small tiny differences and even I couldn't justify them anymore.

I’ve just cleaned my entire house with fabulousa winter angel ( snow fairy knock off) I like tbe smell 🤷‍♀️

And yet you can't understand why people buy scented products?

You start realising instaram and Mrs hunch has a lot to answer for when people spend 50 quid on cleaning products. I keep thinking they must have smelly unclean homes to buy all of this in one go. But also must be brainless to not have a clue how it effects them long term. They'll be the first to cry when they get cancer and then act like they've no idea why.

Actually they are all a problem for me too. We try to do as much stuff that involves painting/ re-carpeting in the summer when doors and windows can be flung open. Stuff with fire retardant is awful - special shout out for Emma mattresses 🤮

It is kind of necessary to have flooring and furniture in a home, and these aren't changed much. But unnecessary chemicals that you add to everything are being discussed here. Coating your furniture and carpets in air freshener, washing all your clothes in oily chemicals and washing it all down the drain to kill wildlife when you're finished is not really comparable to painting your walls every 10 years is it?

You mean all the chemicals in paint, carpeting, and furniture?

Except Jonathan Ross who doesn't bathe much (it's in an online interview at the moment so that's why I mention it). He reckons his wife doesn't bathe much either. It was disgusting to read. I hope he was making it up.

I'm allergic to these products.

Walking into my sister's home without giving her notice to air it out with all the candles she burns, air fresheners all over the place and the stink of scent boosters and whatnot can and has sent me to A&E with a severe asthma attack.

Both my nieces are asthmatic and also find it unpleasant to go back home.

There's a reason these products have warnings on them.

My sister moans constantly about the cost of living crisis but happily spends a fortune on unnecessary household items.

I also don't get why anyone needs MORE scent in their laundry. My niece uses Surf. Her clothes smell lovely and don't trigger our asthma.

ETA that most of these items are made in other countries from cheap ingredients then shipped halfway across the planet. Needless waste of the planet's resources but that's just MHO.

I do like a nice scented candle but to be very clear - most of these products - cleaning & fragrances & cosmetics are toxic carcinogens that enter the body and there’s a lot of research to prove this. It’s not potential it IS fact.

‘Countdown’ by Shanna Swan is very informative on the damage chemicals are causing to our health. These chemicals are why we have a fertility crisis and many modern illnesses are on the rise. Well worth reading.

It makes me sad to see the cleaning trend of late. All those extra chemicals (and yes, chemicals is the right word) being washed down the drains. As we know, this year a record number of our drains ended up in our rivers and no river in the UK is without contamination. This means the chemicals, scents, oils, build ups are in our rivers and in our wildlife. Just because people want to smell nice?

I don't that they should be sold, and if you disagree with me on the basis that 'I want to smell nice and have a right' then we fundamentally disagree

I bet you're all the ones who were on the thread about salt saying it lasts you a million years as well!

no air freshener and no salt in salad dressing

sad times 😂

I agree with you OP. I don’t use any air fresheners, fabric conditioner etc and it says on Zoflora that it’s toxic to wildlife. Why would anyone want to use that?!

I’m even wary of using essential oils because lavender used to set off my exH’s asthma.

I do wear perfume though.

Right, I just want to discourage them, I don't want to harm them.

Quite a few coal fires here too. I'm convinced one neighbour is burning something other than coal or wood or even peat....the fumes smell very unusual.

No its toxic if it gets on them they groom it off and ingest it

PLANT lavender and I believe curry plant? They will stay away from it also mulch with coconut shell good for your plants bad for the paws they won't dig in it

Essential Oils aren't amazing and healthy either

Thought we'd got passed the obsession with essential oils tbh