Why Fragrance Free?
Fragrance Free is a philosophy.​ This isn’t just about cleaning or buying products.
Fragrance Free Non Toxic is a vision for working and living healthy . The result is a healthy body, healthy mind growing resilience.
By abstaining from synthetic inputs and encouraging natural systems, fragrance free life style helps create a better future for people, animals, waterways and the environment.
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1. Health
2. Environment
3. Waterways
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Health
Nowadays our bodies are overwhelmed with the high levels of toxins from our everyday outdoor pollution but did you know that indoor air pollution can be up to 600 times as toxic!
Many everyday cleaning products that we choose to use in our indoor home environments without a second thought can be made up of hundreds of toxic chemicals which can trigger or worsen our health .
Amongst the long list of the named ,unpronounceable ingredients that are disclosed on our daily products, we can find known neurotoxins ,hormone disrupters , these toxins many of which can trigger and worsen our health .
Some people react immediately however for many others the effects are not immediate and accumulating over a period of time .
Respiratory/Breathing issues such as asthma , persistent coughs, rashes, runny nose, itchy watery eyes and headaches , and even neurological issues dementia ,insomnia, ADHD , autism have all have been directly linked to the excessive widespread use of toxic chemicals in household products
Further concern is that the ‘safe allowable amounts’ of toxic chemicals in our everyday products are assessed for safety on a 6ft male but it may be a very different story when a little toddler with immature developing lungs or a child with a compromised immune system , comes into contact with these toxins
Children with their investigative nature, touching surfaces , placing hands in mouths, they are closer to the floor , crawl on the floor , often play on the floor will come into direct and indirect exposure
Canberra hospital in Australia told a couple not to use anything fragranced for a few weeks before the birth and a few months afterwards. No perfume only fragrance free products .
The way the nurses put it was ‘Bub needs to learn the smell of mummy and daddy’
We adults are affected too , reports can be varied some with immediate symptoms like headaches , sore throats and dizziness while for others the reactions can be delayed caused from the accumulative load of chemicals eventually resulting in ill health-sometimes many days after exposure .
60% of patients with migraines found that smells set of their headaches
-2001 Spierings, E.Etal
Changing your laundry liquid could be one of the best most effective ways to make life safer for you and your family .
This is because fragranced fabric is up against the skin more or less 24hours a day in conditions of heat and moisture. Making the perfect environment for maximum absorption of toxic chemicals...
You can soon see how your home can unintentionally become a toxic soup and it could be one of the reasons we feel unexplainably unwell at times.
Our lives are full of risks we don’t have any control over , thankfully indoor air especially in our private home spaces is something we have control over . A few simple changes to household products can make a world of a difference !
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https://health.osu.edu/health/general-health/how-fragrances-affect-health
https://www.asthma.com/understanding-asthma/asthma-triggers/strong-odors-and-asthma/
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Environment
With so many environmental discussions going on , one of them is a bit too close to home for many -our household cleaning products , criticised for polluting the water ways.
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Changing the way you wash your clothes is an easy way to help out wildlife around the world.
With the toxic long lasting effects of common on the shelf toxic products . Many of these chemicals are washed down our drains when we wash up or clean our kitchens and bathrooms, flushing them into rivers and seas.
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Green washing
Don’t be fooled by the green washing , a product might tell you it contains pure essential oils or botanicals but it might also contain the usual toxic culprits…
The label shouts out words like Eco , sustainable, earth , green , eco …But all this could really mean is that the box is just made from recycled paper
All those appealing green words have absolutely no legal meaning whatsoever…
Thankfully for those concerned about the environment there is one very easy way and that is to avoid the F word Fragrance!
https://www.lenntech.com/aquatic/detergents.htm
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Waterways
Thousands of harmful chemicals from our everyday cleaning products are unintentionally washed into our streams , rivers and water ways indirectly by using chemical product , many cannot be filtered out of our water ways …
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Detergents do not completely biodegrade and they contaminate our water supplies, rivers and oceans with toxic heavy metals like cadmium and arsenic.
Studies have shown that phosphates, a common ingredient in detergent, builds up in waterways leading to eutrophication — big algae blooms that can starve fish and other plant life of oxygen.