Tag Archives: essential oils

Earth Day Human Canary Starter Pack

Posted on April 22, 2021 | 6 comments

Human Canaries are what’s left after the signs from wildlife and nature weren’t respected, but we’re not long for this earth either, unless there are some significant changes in people’s daily habits – yes, things everyone can start to do RIGHT NOW!

Let’s start with some hashtags:

#HumanCanaries #EnvironmentalSensitivities #EarthDay #EarthDay2021 #MotherEarth #ChemicalSensitivity #MCS #EHS #IAQ #EnvironmentalHealth #air #water #disabilities #ScentFree #FragranceFree #BeFragranceFree #NonToxic #StopTheKill
Then move on to some science and other research (with apologies for the formatting, I really hate wordpress now):

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Posted in Action, Environmental Health, Environmental Sensitivities, Human Rights, Policy, Public Health

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Are Essential Oils Fragrance-Free?

Posted on February 22, 2021 | 13 comments

Some people are promoting their essential oils and EO containing products as being #FragranceFree.

A few years ago others were claiming their essential oils were #ScentFree.

It seems we need to have a closer look at this before more people are hurt.
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Posted in Accessibility, Environmental Health, Environmental Sensitivities, Fragrance, Indoor Air Quality

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The Fragrance Free Revolution

Posted on February 13, 2020 | 4 comments

Are you on facebook?

If so, please check out and follow the

Fragrance Free Revolution

They share  memes with accompanying information for people with chemical, fragrance, and environmental ‘sensitivities’.

This is one of my absolute favourites!

Image description:

A fair skinned woman is growing out of a terra cotta flower pot. She wears something white and sleeveless. She has long wavy hair that is surrounded by several pink flowers of varying sizes. Her head is tilted to one side and that arm is holding up one of the flowers between her ear and her forehead.

Image text:

If you were meant to smell of fragrance you would’ve been a plant.

Be fragrance free, it’s what nature intended.

#No Fragrances #No Essential Oils  SOS #Back to Basics

 

Direct link to this specific fb post:
https://www.facebook.com/fragrancefreerevolution/photos/a.107251783966059/192533602104543/

 

 

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Posted in Air Quality, Environment, Fragrance, Health Promotion, Nature

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Are Natural Fragrances Really Any Better?

Posted on March 30, 2019 | 15 comments

Awareness is growing about the harmful effects of synthetic, artificial fragrances. This is with good reason, but now, many people have jumped onto the natural fragrance and essential oil (EO) bandwagons, believing them to be safe alternatives.

Is this a good thing?

Some believe so, after all, what could be wrong with something that’s natural?

It’s time to have a closer look.

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Posted in Accessibility, Air Quality, Environmental Health, Fragrance, Health, Human Rights

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When Someone Says They’re Fragrance-Free, But

Posted on February 10, 2019 | 2 comments

When someone says they’re fragrance-free, but

they smell like

essential oils, febreze, scented candles, plug-in air effers, &/or air effing sprays…

…

When someone says they’re fragrance-free, but

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Posted in Accessibility, Air Quality, Environmental Health, Fragrance, Pollution

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So You Think We’re Being Difficult When We ask You to Change Products?

Posted on January 14, 2019 | 16 comments

…

Seriously though:

We are not trying to make your life difficult.

We’re just asking you to choose products that don’t disable us.

…

“Really? Products we can buy in every store disable you?”

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Posted in Accessibility, Disability, Environmental Health, Friendship, Health, Human Rights, Pollution, Public Health

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Health Canada and Chemicals in Fragranced Products

Posted on December 15, 2018 | 2 comments

This report from the Auditor General of Canada came out in 2016. Nothing has changed as far as I have seen, and I keep my eyes open for these kinds of things.

“The Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG) conducts independent audits and studies that provide objective information, advice, and assurance to Parliament, territorial legislatures, boards of crown corporations, government, and Canadians.”

Here’s a short video, followed by the transcript,  more from the report, and some relevant bits from a follow up by Health Canada:

Chemicals in Consumer Products and Cosmetics

 

Video Transcript

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Posted in Chemicals, Environmental Health, Fragrance, Fragrance and Cosmetics, Policy, Public Health

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11 Reasons To Stop Using Fragrances and Implement Fragrance-free Policies

Posted on February 28, 2018 | 9 comments

Here are 11 excellent  reasons to stop using and allowing fragrances in your home, at work,  in healthcare, in housing, at school, in transportation, in retail, and in other public places:

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Fragrance Chemicals: Weapons of Environmental and Human Destruction

Posted on December 29, 2016 | 5 comments

We are surrounded by and saturated with fragrance chemicals now.

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Fragrance Chemicals:
Weapons of Destruction

(if you have been impacted, you know this is not hyperbole)

Most fragrances are now are made from oil and gas based chemicals.

They are in our personal care, laundry, and cleaning products. They are in garbage bags, candles, and shoes. They are in toys, fire-place logs, and diapers. They are in toilet paper, stationary, and stickers. They are in clothing, pillows, and jewellery. They are in foods, plastics, and medicines. They are in kitty litter, trash bags,  and vacuum cleaner bags. They are even in pesticides, where they are regulated by the EPA, but they are not regulated by anyone when they are added to all the other products we use and are exposed to!

There’s no escaping fragrance even when housebound, because so many  deliveries of even the basics like food, arrive fragrance contaminated!

We were not designed for 24/7 exposures to toxic chemicals

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How much more evidence is needed before something is done about the human and environmental health problems caused by fragranced productss?

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Here’s an info dump with some relevant links and videos:

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Posted in Air Quality, Brain, Chemicals, Child Health, Disability, Environmental Health, Fragrance, Human Rights, Pollution, Public Health

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It’s Only A Little Fragrance

Posted on June 14, 2015 | 5 comments

How many times have we heard it’s “only a little fragrance”?

Telling a person with MCS/ES that there is “only a little fragrance”

is like

telling someone with Celiac Disease that there’s “only a little gluten”

or

 telling someone with a peanut allergy that there’s “only a little peanut”

or

telling someone who uses a wheelchair that there are “only a few steps”.

It’s not ok.

telling 103It’s NOT ok.

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Posted in Accessibility, Air Quality, Chemicals, Disability, Environmental Health, Fragrance, Images, MCS/ES

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