my opinion

i am somewhat opinionated at times, lol, and i just thought i'd share one of my opinions.

last week i came to be in the same airspace as someone i don't know, a lady with VERY strong fragrance on her clothes.... likely a combination of scents as you would get with multiple doses of fragranced hair products, cologne/perfume, strong deodorant, and dryer sheets.... almost an instant asthma attack for me, as frequently happens.

thing is, i noticed this lady looked tired, exhausted, beat... and had dark circles under her eyes..... like someone with bad allergies or asthma has. and i felt like going to her and saying 'do you have allergies or asthma?'... and if the response was affirmative as i'm sure it would be, to say rather bluntly, 'then you need to get all sources of chemical fragrances out of your home'.

many people's immune system can handle being bombarded with the thousands of un-natural fragrance chemicals that go into even only one perfume... or fabric softener... or hair product... but increasingly, many of us can't. more and more are unable to handle it, what with there being SO MANY chemicals in our entire planet's airspace.... (see teflon note below)....

opinion as follows: get the chemicals out of your home. seriously. there are so many side-effects of so many chemicals, dangerous chemicals that are in so many household and personal care products, chemicals that 'they' say are 'safe' becuase they are in such small quantities.... but add up all the products we use, other's use, and are in our industrialized world's airspace, and it's not small quantities anymore. what you use in your laundry or bath or kitchen, or is sprayed on your new couch, or offgassing from your carpets or particle-board furniture, you are breathing in, ingesting, or absorbing through your skin. and it could be very well the very thing that is making you sick.

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(teflon note: i saw a documentary (on the 5th Estate?) about how teflon breaks down into a molecule that 100% NEVER occurs in nature.... and they are finding this molecule in the flesh of seals and polar bears at the north pole.... all this from teflon pans and teflon coated fabrics, and whatever else they coat with teflon. teflon is the only known source of this bizarre molecule, and they have no idea what it could do. it's almost guaranteed in yours and mine's body as well, they said. who knows what that could result in.... could it be one reason why there is so many cancers in the last 20 years? but we assume teflon to be safe, becuase it's on our frying pans... and we never think twice about it.)

oh, and did you know, there is formeldahyde in pretty much all commercial toothpastes?

don't take my word for all this.... you have a computer, gooooogle it.