launderess
Well-known member
Laundry Product Scents and Human Health
One likes laundry to have a pleasant whiff after washday as the next person, but today's Frankenscented products are pushing far.
Perfumes that not only cling to washing after subsequent rinsing, tumble drying and remain for several days or weeks afterwards cannot be good for human health. It simply not natural and that goes for whatever fixative is used as well.
Have spoken before of the nasty stench from the box of Bounce dryer sheets one acquired. Well recently noticed the stuff not only heavily scented each of the three closed Ziploc bags it was encased within, but the entire "rag sack" we had put the thing into that resides in the cleaning closet. Indeed one came to know this fact when went to do a bit of ironing last night. Noticed the ironing board bad and cover had a decided whiff about them. At first thought it was the scent from whatever detergent was used to launder what had been ironed previously. It took awhile to realize that was not the case at all. But that darned box of Bounce had scented the aforementioned rag sack, which sat next to the ironing board. Like a sachet the latter was scented by the former.
It was then one took action!
Removed and chucked the Ziploc bags as they were now useless (too infested with the Bounce scent), and found a discarded empty chocolate tin. Shoved the Bounce box into this and as if sealing a vampire in it's coffin shut the lid tightly and sealed with duct tape.
Any perfumed items that release fragrance to an extent that things used to hold them become so impregnated with scent that a mere touch has it rubbing off on one's hands, is foul.
Skin is the largest organ on the human body, so think what one is exposed to and absorbing by wearing/using items coated in these scents. It is also worth noting when persons are studied by blood essay for various chemicals normally a whole laundry list of things comes up. This even for young children. Small wonder even corpses not embalmed take decades to rot away totally. We are all that full of various chemicals so even the natural process of decomposition is retarded.
One likes laundry to have a pleasant whiff after washday as the next person, but today's Frankenscented products are pushing far.
Perfumes that not only cling to washing after subsequent rinsing, tumble drying and remain for several days or weeks afterwards cannot be good for human health. It simply not natural and that goes for whatever fixative is used as well.
Have spoken before of the nasty stench from the box of Bounce dryer sheets one acquired. Well recently noticed the stuff not only heavily scented each of the three closed Ziploc bags it was encased within, but the entire "rag sack" we had put the thing into that resides in the cleaning closet. Indeed one came to know this fact when went to do a bit of ironing last night. Noticed the ironing board bad and cover had a decided whiff about them. At first thought it was the scent from whatever detergent was used to launder what had been ironed previously. It took awhile to realize that was not the case at all. But that darned box of Bounce had scented the aforementioned rag sack, which sat next to the ironing board. Like a sachet the latter was scented by the former.
It was then one took action!
Removed and chucked the Ziploc bags as they were now useless (too infested with the Bounce scent), and found a discarded empty chocolate tin. Shoved the Bounce box into this and as if sealing a vampire in it's coffin shut the lid tightly and sealed with duct tape.
Any perfumed items that release fragrance to an extent that things used to hold them become so impregnated with scent that a mere touch has it rubbing off on one's hands, is foul.
Skin is the largest organ on the human body, so think what one is exposed to and absorbing by wearing/using items coated in these scents. It is also worth noting when persons are studied by blood essay for various chemicals normally a whole laundry list of things comes up. This even for young children. Small wonder even corpses not embalmed take decades to rot away totally. We are all that full of various chemicals so even the natural process of decomposition is retarded.
Unfortunately, if your washer really rinses well enough, the Downy scent will be mostly gone, and the tumble drying will kill it off completely, plus the sheets aren't all the scent packed, so, you just end up with soft sheets 
P&G fiddled with the forumla, back in 2010 or so, and changed it to a new scent, with scent "beads" to supposedly last longer. The new scent, isn't any stronger, and they still haven't reverted to the old formula. 
