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"Fragrance" is a euphemism for nearly 4,000 different "fragrances" are synthetic and are either cancer-causing or Exposure to fragrances has been shown to affect the central tern. "Fragrances" are found in most shampoos, deodorants skin care, and body care products. diethanolamine ( d e a ) a n triethanolamine (tea) DEA and its variants are suspected of increasing the risk of cancer. DEA and TEA can combine with amines present in cosmetic;formulations to form nitrosamines (N-nitrosodiethanolamine), which are known to be highly carcinogenic." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Synthetic fragrances: The synthetic fragrances used in cosmetics can have hundreds of ingredients. There is no way to know what the chemicals are, since on the label it will simply read "fragrance." Some problems caused by these chemicals include headaches, dizziness, rash, hyperpigmentation, violent coughing, vomiting, skin irritation—the list goes on.Try to avoid buying a cosmetic that has the word "fragrance"on the ingredients label." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Because manufacturers are not required to disclose hazardous chemicals used in manufacturing fragrances, consumers have no way of knowing whether their brands' fragrances contain carcinogens. The wise consumer will make the assumption that all synthetic fragrances contain carcinogens. However, in the absence of such information we are unable to evaluate fragrances for their presence. Although some brands containing synthetic fragrances are recommended in the absence of available information, some consumers may simply wish to avoid such products. Activist and Resource Groups, U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., The Politics of Cancer Revisited (Get the book.)

"Synthetic fragrances: The synthetic fragrances used in cosmetics can have hundreds of ingredients. There is no way to know what the chemicals are, since on the label it will simply read "fragrance." Some problems caused by these chemicals include headaches, dizziness, rash, hyperpigmentation, violent coughing, vomiting, skin irritation—the list goes on.Try to avoid buying a cosmetic that has the word "fragrance"on the ingredients label." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Although strong-smelling substances, fragrances and perfumes can actually provoke asthma attacks in some people, pure essential oils contain no irritating additives to aggravate. Nevertheless, someone with asthma who is unsure of possible adverse reactions should start by using essential oils sparingly. EUCALYPTUS A great deal of Australian history can be traced from the bushmen who first distilled eucalyptus from the leaves of the blue mallee gum tree, in the very early days of settlement in Australia." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Most of the fragrances on the market today do not come from natural flower scents or any natural scents; they're mostly chemicals. Some people can't go into department stores because they get violent headaches. Formaldehyde is used in inexpensive press board furniture as part of the glue. Many people get sick carpet syndrome because insecticides have been sprayed on carpets. Patient Story: Paint Exposure_ When I was injured on the job from some paint fumes, my whole life changed. I developed serious food allergies and sensitivities to everything in my environment." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "I have very restricted access to public places because of fragrances that are often used in offices, stores, or public restrooms, and because of cleaning solutions and sprays used in public places. After two years, I am still slowly making progress, but I know that I have several more years ahead of me before I can bring my immune system back to where it should be. I like people and I have always, all my life, been around people. One of my greatest frustrations has been that now I have to dodge people because of the cosmetics, perfumes, and sprays that they use." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Cosmetics contain not only fragrances (with all their component chemicals) but also metal salts. Mascara and eyeliners may contain lead or coal tar dyes, which are also found in hair dyes. In addition, hair dyes contain aniline dyes, known to cause cancer in animals. Body powders made with talc can cause scarring of lung tissue when fine particles are inhaled. Some shampoos and hair conditioners, hand lotions, and hair colors contain a potentially dangerous antibacterial chemical called methylisothiazolinone (MIT)." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"It found prescription drugs, as well as fragrances, insect repellents, disinfectants, and other household chemicals, in 80 percent of the 139 streams sampled in Iowa and twenty-nine other states. Just what it means to be swallowing the flotsam and jetsam of thousands of medicine chests is a mystery that Dr. Kolpin says may not be solved for generations. The levels of any one drug in the rivers are so low that it would take many years of drinking the water to get even one therapeutic dose." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Mamtaining the "trade secret" status of fragrances. • Monitoring legislative trends worldwide, and assuring their consistency to avoid the development of trade barriers. • Most importantly for this book, pre-empting national and international legislative labeling and safety initiatives. A fragrance may be restricted by IFRA on a variety of grounds, including use in products at higher-than-recommended concentrations, sensitization, photosensitization, phototoxicity, allergenicity, neurotoxicity, carcinogenicity, undefined biological effects, and inadequate data." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Congress to enforce the FDA's compliance with the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act helped inspire California Assemblywoman Judy Chu to introduce landmark legislation, in 2004, that would have banned the use of phthalates and required disclosure of all carcinogenic, hormone-disruptive, and otherwise toxic ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products, including their hidden use in perfumes and fragrances. Backed by a coalition of consumer, women's, occupational, and church groups, but opposed by mainstream industry interests, the legislation failed to pass." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Chanel revolutionized the fragrance industry with the introduction of aldehydes and other synthetics, which gave fragrances greater consistency and stability at lower cost. Synthetics captured the imagination of manufacturers, and their advantages helped blind the industry to any consideration of the unknown impact these synthetic ingredients would have on health. Beginning in the 1970s, synthetic scents, usually associated only with perfumes, had been integrated into so many cosmetics and personal care products that they were a part of normal daily experience." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Harmful chemicals can be found in daily-use items such as packaged and processed food, household cleaners, cosmetics, and fragrances. Volumes could be written on this subject alone, but a few of the more widely-used chemicals and their common sources are covered here so that readers can take precautions to minimize exposure to them. Chlorine Chlorine is used as a bactericide in drinking water, and as a bleaching and cleaning agent. In small concentrations it is supposed to be non-toxic, or perhaps is apparently so. In strong solutions or as a pure gas, it is a deadly poison." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Some hidden hazards that may be lurking within synthetic-chemical fragrances include: • Allergens. fragrances are considered to be among the top five known allergens, and are known to both cause asthma and trigger asthma attacks.14 • Phthalates. Product tests conducted by Consumer Reports in January 2007 found the phthalates DEP and DEHP in all eight of eight perfumes tested.15 The Not Too Pretty report found phthalates in 72% of personal care products, including fragrance-containing shampoos, deodorants and hair gels. None of the products listed phthalates on the label.16 • Sensitizers." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Look for a natural vegetarian formula that uses no artificial or synthetically derived fragrances, parabens or preservatives. Look for a formula that uses all natural oils and an enhanced liposome delivery system to help move the progesterone through the skin. And finally, look for a formula that uses only full-profile organic wild yam. Whether you're still going through your menstrual cycles (or whether you're pre-menopausal, menopausal, or post-menopausal), you need to seriously consider supplementation. The benefits are extraordinary; the risks virtually nonexistent." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Federal law allows fragrance makers to include potentially hazardous chemicals in their products, including the highly toxic phthalates and artificial musk. Most fragrances contain phthalates. They are added to plastic to soften it. When absorbed by the skin, they act as the most powerful estrogens ever known. And abnormal estrogen levels cause cancer. Synthetically produced musk is linked to skin irritation, hormone disruption, and cancer as well. Natural fragrances emitted from aroma oils are beneficial for the body." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Avoid cosmetics that include parabens (methyl-, ethyl-, propyl-, and butylparabens); phthalates; sodium laureth/sodium laurel sulfate; butyl/ethyl acetate; petrolatum; cocamide DEA/lauramide DEA; diazolidinyl urea; propylene glycol; toluene; synthetic colors and fragrances; and triethanolamine. Likewise, avoid using synthetic perfumes and cologne. Studies show that many perfumes and colognes often contain phthalates and parabens (both of which are known endocrine disruptors)." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"In spite of these findings, the industry still persists in refusing to list phthalates on product labels, using the highly misleading rationale that they are common ingredients in fragrances and thus exempt from labeling requirements because of trade secrecy laws. The 2007 Cosmetic Industry Review Compendium concludes that phthalates are "safe in the present practices of use and concentration in cosmetics" (22). However, the Compendium also admitted that oral administration of dibutyl phthalate "produced testicular atrophy in various test rodents." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Indeed, when Jacques Guerlain used vanillin in fragrances, he always chose a somewhat impure grade which smelled nicer (the firm of De Laire sold it to him for more than the pure stuff). He then mixed, say, ten parts of this stuff to one of the expensive vanilla absolute to make it both cheap and rich. 'Birch and beaver Further afield in the phenolic jungle, we encounter the cresols. There are several: this one is the p- or para-cresol." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"Male orchid bees build up stores of these volatile orchid fragrances in specialized leg pockets. The range of chemicals they are attracted to is broad; one species, Eufriesia purpura ta, has been observed collecting DDT from the walls of Brazilian houses. It soon became clear how orchids used these fragrances to specify what bees would be attracted. It was the mix of fragrances that determined what bees would visit a flower. Orchids generally don't attract just a single species of bee, but they do attract a narrow range of the species that might inhabit a forest." - Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America (Get the book.)

"Without it, Guerlain fragrances would not exist, chocolate would be an austere, saturnine drink favoured only by Yucatan monks and ice cream would be forever stuck in sorbet territory. Vanillin, the 'character impact' molecule of vanilla pods, was first made in 1874 by Ferdinand Tiemann and Wilhelm Haarmann. The firm of Haarmann and Reimer had been founded a few years earlier in the middle of the forests of central Germany, to extract vanillin from wood. It was, and still is, situated in a place called Holzminden (holz means wood)." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.) "There are three possible approaches to the problem: 1. Ban fragrances: not good, because 'unfragranced' products smell bad. 2. Ban or restrict the offending chemicals: OK, but in due course they will be replaced by other bulk ones, likely to be just as allergenic. 3. Label the bottle properly, so people know that if they are allergic to something they can stay away from it. This solution is OK, except that a lot of the products concerned are supposed to be good for you, which would not agree all that well with a nasty EU allergen label on the bottle. Time will tell." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.) "Then they had to wait for years until someone noticed that they would be better employed composing fragrances than weighing mixtures all day, and claw their way up the ladder. The School has since produced some of the great contemporary perfumers, from Patricia de Nicolai (New York) to Francis Kurkdjian (Le Male). Like most educational institutions, the school does its best to keep out some useful talent. For example, it requires two years of university-level chemistry prior to entrance." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"There are a lot of things in the world we can improve without too much work and this is one of them." fragrances are "full of nasty molecules," according to Bruce, and in his opinion there is no excuse ever to use phthalates. However, he doesn't buy the idea that all personal care products should be made with food-grade ingredients and no chemicals at all. Certain synthetic chemicals such as bubble-making surfactants and emulsifiers, which help mix oil and water, give products the characteristics consumers have come to expect." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Some products are made with artificial fragrances rather than herbal oils. Artificial fragrances should never be used in diffusers. Candles that contain manufactured fragrances can cause headaches. Bowel Retraining Bowel retraining is a program for producing regular bowel movements. It can be used with other therapies for treating fecal incontinence, a condition in which a person experiences uncontrollable bowel movements. Bowel retraining also can be useful by itself for treating chronic constipation." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Herbal Healing: An Easy-to-Use A-Z Reference to Hundreds of Common Disorders and Their Herbal Remedies (Get the book.)

"The male orchid bees collect fragrances, which they store in special pockets on their hind legs and use for their own sexual ends. Orchid fragrances are complex chemical mixtures. Calaway Dodson, an orchid biologist who is now director of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, was intrigued by these rich fragrances. His observations of wild orchids in South America reveal a complex relationship between these bees and orchids, but it was difficult to work out the details because orchids flower at their own convenience." - Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America (Get the book.)

"Despite this labeling, many products use fragrant plant extracts that can cause skin irritation, allergic reactions, or a phototoxic response on skin (meaning they enhance the negative effects of the sun on your skin). fragrances, natural or otherwise, are not benign ingredients (Source: Acta Dermato-Venereology, July 2007, pages 312-316)." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.)

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