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

Yes of course I get a say, it’s an open forum.

i will repeat that smelling of BO or dog is better than the poison in laundry boosters. And make no mistake, it is poison. Anyone who voluntarily ingests it is foolish.

They give me a terrible headache and make me feel pretty ill. I could never go into Lush. I guess some people have a much lower sense of smell though, laundry detergent smells disgusting, really artificial and chemical but so many people seem to love it and think it smells 'clean'.

People here are being deliberately dumb by saying water and air are chemicals. Right we know, but it’s the context. Food could be called chemicals but you wouldn’t eat soap, bleach or engine oil because they are just chemicals too, and therefore just the same…..

It is not just lavender oils, there are tons of natural oils for sale vanilla, grapefruit, lemon, orange, Clove, sage, rosemary, cinnamon, rose, sandalwood, jasmine, mint…

The chemically cleaners and scents are different, they do not come from the same natural sources.

I avoid the fake scents and go for the oils. I do use bio washing powder and that has a scent in it, but no fabric softener. The only exception I use is bleach, as it removes mould and deep cleans.

I think they smell nice but I'd rather not breathe in chemicals, especially now I have children in the house. I use all natural cleaning products, no air fresheners, no laundry scents etc. I occasionally use essential oils and that's it.

@iwafs BO is disgusting. If you're walking round stinking then you don't really get a say

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Did you spray some other pollutants?

water and human beings are not really air pollutants

I was about 10 minutes ago. 💨

I think that we might all be able to find chemicals/substances that are seemingly 'pointless' to us, if we try hard enough. I doubt many chemicals are absolutely pointless though.
OP clearly thinks many scented chemicals/products are pointless (and harmful and toxic).

It isn’t proving any point. I don’t like artificial perfumes.

and why do you think i stink if I wash with soap?

i meant I’d prefer someone else to smell of bo rather than laundry scents that sting my eyes and give me a headache.

They are awful and give me migraines. Catching the faint whiff of a nice smell is a pleasant experience, being hit in the face by a wall of artficial smell is not.
I can’t see how sitting in a confined space inhaling all those toxins can be good for anyone, regardless of any testing that says otherwise.

@iwafs and there it is.

You're happy to walk around stinking to prove a point

I don’t use perfume or deo.

Hate the smell of it all. I’d prefer to smell bo or dog.

Apples contain formaldehyde. Best keep away from them.

I’m fussy about scents and don’t like the standard air fresheners or understand why laundry has to smell so strong.

BUT the anti science claims from some are ridiculous. For those at the back:

Everything is a chemical and poison is in the dosage.

Zoflora is nasty stuff though and there seems to be a bit of an obsession with air fresheners, laundry scents etc judging by the amount of TV adverting I saw when in the UK a few months ago. I found it quite odd.

you're not wrong OP. You only have to look in the supermarkets nowadays, making your home smell like LUSH is big business. It's the equivalent of UPF, but people will ignore all the evidence because it tastes nice (UPF) or it smells nice [home fragrances]? I've stopped buying all the branded washing gels and liquids, they make me feel ill:

Source: https://madesafe.org/pages/mission-vision

Air fresheners are a source of indoor air pollution and either directly emit or cause the formation of numerous substances associated with negative health effects. In studies measuring the different substances that air fresheners emit, researchers have found numerous chemicals associated with toxic effects.

These include: volatile organic compounds (VOCs),[5]benzene,[6] formaldehyde,[7] toluene,[8] m,p-xylene,[9] phthalates,[10] and more. For example, formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, has been measured at high levels. Levels were found to be even higher when air quality was measured during simultaneous use of multiple scented products (cleaning products, air fresheners, and perfume).[11] High concentrations of VOCs[12] have been measured in the emissions from numerous air freshener types too, including sprays, plug-ins, solids, and more.[13]

Yes, you’re right. It’s not so much the ‘chemicals’ as ‘pointless’.

I’m unsure what a pointless chemical is. If it does the job of creating a smell that someone likes it’s hard to see how it’s pointless.

@tomorrowisanotherdate can you provide any sources for this?

How do you know they’re harmful and toxic?

According to some we don’t need to ingest them for them to poison us with their chemical nastiness.

I do open my windows but we live rurally, the air smells like cow shit/slurry and not at all fresh. 😂

I had to actually ask someone on Vinted what their washing combo was as it smelt so nice. 😁

Yeah, that’s really the gist of it. I doubt there’s any evidence of harm from these products even if some find them unpleasant.

I don't think OP said some compounds were chemicals and some were not, did she?

They will have passed rigorous safety tests though, so while many of us don't like them, it's also not realistic to label their use, especially in moderation, as 'harmful and toxic'.