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

I have to dry my washing inside so I like something that doesn't smell of last night's dinner

See this just makes no sense to me. Why does fabric conditioner even need colourings anyway?? You don't need to look at it! Just so much unnecessary crap we are being convinced we need to cover our selves/homes/clothes in.

"well, it might be your opinion that it smells nice, but objectively, it cannot smell "clean". It is contaminated, and smells contaminated. Maybe you like the smell, but you can't call it clean"

Don't worry I'm not inviting you to my home any time soon.

They are, but when you look at the small print you can’t have them around pets. So what’s it doing to us. I have them, love them but I know they aren’t good for me.
Zoflora is now a fiver! 🙄

I’ve read things like wiping furniture with orange peel works. Never done it though!

water and human beings are not really air pollutants

Are they other sorts of pollutants, though? Is is just air pollutants you have a problem with? In other people's houses?

Why are you making these distinctions? Humans pollute. Water is a chemical made of chemicals and full of chemicals. What you're doing is judging people because they like things that you don't like, @tomorrowisanotherdate

I wont use fabric conditioner because of Glutaraldehyde which is so toxic to marine life, and methylisothiazolinone which can trigger asthma and respiratory issues. Some of them contain D&C violet 2 colouring, which has been linked to cancer.

Air fresheners I dislike because since a youngish age, they've given me a bad headache and made me sneeze repeatedly. For me the health risks just arent worth it for the sake of the fragrance. I wouldnt have wanted any of that around my DCs.

I do understand we don't and can't all think the same so the answer to 'Why' is, some people just love the fragrance and that's a good enough reason for them. There are a lot of companues out there profiting from hastening our death aren't there.

The multitude of air freshener scents have been around way before Mrs.Hinch.

I also make my own deodorant and my home is aerosol free - again, not sure if the aerosol makes the triggering ingredient more airborne but either way, i get ill very quickly near these. I'm a nightmare in other peoples homes 🙈.

Currently working on my own moisturiser and soap.

God, I'd love a top-of-the-range filtration system, @Ponderingwindow! It'd make perfume & fragrances redundant, because it would suck them all out (and dump them in The Outdoors). It'd also mean I could smoke without making everything stinky 😂

Must be a bummer when you're cooking something delicious, though.

Not being virtuous when I say that I haven't touched these for years, but all these freshners, scented cleaners and air purifiers contain something which make me feel
ill and give me major headaches. Even zoflora!

I use nothing but pure essential oils in my home - and fresh air. No scented stuff for washing clothes neither.

More money than sense I think

And considering house dust is a mix of sloughed-off skin cells, hair, clothing fibres, bacteria, dust mites, bits of dead bugs, soil particles, pollen, and microscopic specks of plastic (according to the American Chemical Society website), some Glade in the air should be the least concern!

All cleaners are chemical cleaners, including water.

ive had extensive allergy testing to figure out exactly which ingredients among that toxic stew was causing my allergic reactions. My home has been purged of all my allergens and that honestly leaves very few safe products to buy.

You can smell the difference as soon as you step foot into my house. Our windows are closed and we have whole home filtration that was installed at great expense. Even just going from outdoors to inside my home, you can smell the removal of artificial scent that permeates the outside air these days.

people have become nose-blind to it. They don’t realize how bad it has gotten. Everyone who buys these heavily scented products is culpable in the air pollution.

there are more and more of us being diagnosed with artificial fragrance allergies these days. That should scare people, but no one seems to care.

This with bells on. It’s just a sign of deep ignorance.

Do you use fragranced deodorant or perfume op?

I try to keep things as natural smelling a
possible as I get migraines with strong smells.

Where I live it will be slurry scented at this time of year. For anyone who doesn't know what slurry smells like...think cow sh*t.

@PermanentIyExhaustedPigeon I agree.

@tomorrowisanotherdate I don't think it's a mystery. They sometimes smell nice. I'd probably use candles and reeds if I didn't react to them. I can't be in a room with air fresheners/those puffer things/excess of cleaning products. I get a sore throat, my eyes water, no get a headache etc

I can't even sniff an unlit candle.

but I accept other people think they smell nice & can't see that problem with using them.

Blame that bloody Mrs Hinch woman!
Majority of the chemical cleaners, air fresheners wasn’t as vast until she came on the scene!!!

Thank. You.
People don't seem to realise that water is a chemical compound.....

This.

We have used Ecover for about 20 years.

Whenever I buy second hand clothes I'm always astonished by the overpowering fake floral stench of the laundry liquid / conditioner most people use.

Why would you want your clothes to smell so strongly?!

I hate lavender. Is there another option?

I haven't seen one. I don't see why it matters. It's a topic that interests me and I've already learnt something.

You don't have to go on threads you find tiresome.

What is an ‘air pollutant’? Are fresheners polluting but scent isn’t? Are the airborne ‘chemicals’ given off by your cooking pollutants? Or ‘chemicals’ from candles?

Does it boil down to whether they come from a supermarket v whether a charming little man behind a stall gives you nice smelling oils in little brown bottles at 25x the price?

I am with you. Get rid of all the stinky stuff.