So there you are, sitting comfortably on your favorite chair, and you get the dreaded call. Your out of town friends announce that they are coming to visit for the weekend. As your stress levels begin to rise, you quietly make your to-do list to prepare to impress your guests! You are determined to make them believe that you always live in a gleaming, sparkling clean, and fresh smelling house. As you compile your cheap mcm backpack grocery list for those gourmet styled meals that you plan to serve them, and start to clean up the house it hits you, what’s that smell? Panic comes over you like a rolling meadow, and you are left with a feeling of horror. After all, the guests must enter a sweet smelling house for what would they think if the air upon entering the threshold of your home smelled like a mixture of Brutus the dog, your teens hockey bag, and your cat’s litter box? So now what? Of course, you get into your car, and you head to the nearest store to the air freshener isle. You are inundated by the myriad of scents and devices to help make your home smell clean and fresh. There are so many choices: plug-ins, diffusers, sprays, what one should you choose? Then you are faced with the multitude of scent choices like: Mountain Air, Vanilla, Fall Harvest and Ocean Wave.
Air fresheners are a multi mcm belt cheap million dollar industry for after all what can be worse than having an awful smelling house? But the questions remains, are air fresheners bad for you, your pets and the environment? You might be saying to yourself, how can something that smells so good, be bad?
Let’s take a closer look. What are the main ingredients in common air fresheners? The four most mcm sale common are: formaldehyde, petroleum distillates, aerosol propellants and P-dichlorobenzene.
Many of these chemicals are hormone disrupting cancer causing chemicals that can cause a variety of health issues such as: asthma (and other respiratory conditions), cancer, headaches, nausea, and dizziness just to name a few! Place an aerosol air freshener in a closed space and it can be likened to a gas chamber as the particles are diffused not only in the room, but in your lungs.
These chemicals have also been linked to polluting the environment by polluting the groundwater and depleting the ozone layer.
So what are the alternatives? Do you buy a store bought product that states that it is eco-friendly, or labeled green? While some green products contain legitimate green ingredients many manufacturers use very misleading verbiage designed to confuse the consumer with very long ambiguously named ingredient lists. Green labeling is also under scrutiny as there are different criteria for different types of green labeling, making the green product industry nowhere near regulated as it should be.
The best plan of action is always to make your own air fresheners. That way you know exactly what you are putting into it. While it is always nice to open all your windows and let the fresh air, flow through your home this might not be enough to keep your household odors at bay. Why not try placing vinegar in a bowl near that stinky source, or place a little essential oil unto your light bulbs. As a holiday air freshener why not try simm