Is perfume affecting your breathing?

Are scents making you feel bad?

Are you aware of the amount of synthetic scents and perfumes there are out there and what they are doing to your health? I went away for a few days at a spa once and despite the gentle instruction for you to shower before entering the pool area, not everyone was considerate enough to do that. Imagine then the smell that greeted you when you entered a steam room with some older middle aged ladies that had literally slathered themselves in perfume. It stank and then smelled worse because the natural effect of a steam room is to encourage you to sweat. It was a sweet, sticky, cloying smell that was rather sickly. 

Have you ever been into a public lavatory or public building where there are automatic sprays emitting aromas at regular intervals? This is before you will have considered the scents added to your laundry tabs, powder or liquid, scents added to hand creams, face creams, deodorants, washing up liquids, cleaning products, carpet powders and sprays. Scent is added everywhere and often or not it may be given a natural name like lavender, which you expect to be natural, but in truth it is synthetic and toxic. 

The chances are though you don't even recognise it because you probably add more scent into your life with diffusers, air fresheners or candles and have no idea that the scent used in many of your favourite products are actually making you ill. It came to a head for me one day at work when a cleaner came into the room and sprayed it very liberally with some air freshener. I spent half an hour washing my eyes out with water because they would not stop streaming. How many people do you know with respiratory issues? The toxic environments that you live and work in may be contributing to this. Does the inside of your nose ever feel sore or itchy? Do you feel tired or run down for no apparent reason? All this and more could be down to a very simple thing. Scent. And yet the perfume industry is huge and heavily endorsed by celebrities keen to cash in on their name to create perfumes and scents for you to buy.

But did you know you can improve your health by ditching the perfume and finding natural alternatives? Have you looked at the ingredients in your perfume lately? Let's see what may be in there that is affecting your health.

Is perfume affecting your breathing?

In most perfumes you will find benzaldehyde, benzyl acetate, ethanol, ethyl acetate, and linalool, which can be linked to respiratory irritation and disturbances.

Did you ever think about smelling less toxic?

DoTerra oils are totally natural and non toxic and are a great way to express yourself as an individual. You'll have great fun learning about and experimenting with them. If you love to talk and show things to people you could even turn your passion into a business. Don't know where to start? Anything that has citrus in it will be uplifting, while things like Peppermint and Lavender help to lift your mood. You don't have to spend a fortune to start up and you'll know that what you are using supports you, your family and the environment.
Try this lovely trio starter kit and look out for my blogs on DoTerra oils to find out how you can start using them for your health, around your home and in your kitchen! These oils are very high grade and of exceptional quality, which means they can be taken internally and used on your skin also.

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