So apparently fabric softener is carcinogenic?

[lottieandmia]

My friend posted a link about this on Facebook.

Sadly, I'm addicted to the smell of clothes which have had added fabric softener.

However, I have developed eczema since I was 31. You have to wonder.

But if fabric softener is cancer causing then is washing liquid etc also?

Look it up on Snopes to see if it's a fake article

Meh I'm not sure I woukd care if it was true. Most things probably are tbh

Well this is what I was thinking pixie. Most products have chemicals.

www.organicauthority.com/sanctuary/is-fabric-softener-toxic-hell-yes-it-is.html

Plastic is too. Meh, we all die anyway!

I think pretty much everything has an opinion about it somewhere or other. I take everything with a pinch of salt....which is probably carcinogenic too and just carry on regardless.

Check the source.

Carcinogenic how? If ingested? At what dose? Are they saying you need to drink 50 litres a week for 50 years and your risk might increase?

Is it just Facebook scaremongering horseshit?

Popcorn is carcinogenic. Popcorn lung is a real thing! Pretty much everything is carcinogenic.

I've had cancer and can't get too worked up about what caused it, because no-one has the ability to know that. Panicking about carcinogens, well, that way madness lies. For me, anyway.

www.snopes.com/dryer-sheets-full-of-toxic-chemicals/ think this mentions some of the chemicals in that article

That website isn't rigorous scientific research. It is a biased source. It states that certain compounds found in fabric softener cause certain death thunderclap . What they don't state is the levels at which these things become toxic to humans (clue: not the vanishingly low levels found in laundry liquids).

Try this blog, which keeps tab on what the Daily Mail claims causes cancer: www.anorak.co.uk/288298/tabloids/the-daily-mails-list-of-things-that-give-you-cancer-from-a-to-z.html/ Short version: EVERYTHING!

Oddly, fabric conditioner is not on that list.

Life is carcinogenic

As it happens I cannot stand fabric conditioner, but these scare mongering stories really piss me off.
I need to get a life....

Yes I agree. Most things are damaging. And yes good point - in what amounts?

Most fragrances - in high enough doses - are carcinogenic. But you would have to be drinking it to start having an effect.

Yes I mean what about perfume?