What sort of stuff is actually in Fragrance?
It is widely reported that fragrance causes irritation and allergic reactions via skin contact and/or inhalation. Symptoms can include irritability, headaches, dizziness, nausea, skin reactions such as hives, itchiness or eczema, respiratory symptoms such as wheezing, coughing, sore or itchy throat or asthmatic reactions. Have you ever noticed that some perfumes smell fine to you but others are really unpleasant to point of irritating? How can you possibly know how and why, when synthetic fragrances may contain over 100 ingredients and they won’t be listed on the label..that is even if you have access to the label yourself, given frequently the irritating fragrance is on someone else! To protect trade secrets for perfumes and fragrances companies rarely list the ingredients in their product and don’t have to. The perfume industry is only regulated by the FDA, via the individual ingredients allowed in the products themselves. (Though it’s questionable how well this is done given the app
