Peteyfoozer’s Journey (because journaling’s not enough)

[Baymule]

I'm with @farmerjan on this. In the essential oil world I learned that anything applied topically to the skin gets into the bloodstream, I want to say in 20 seconds? but truly can't remember the exact number. Which is why I cringe when I see all the commercials that push scented laundry products and room fresheners -- and you know they are just using chemicals and not the actual essential oils to get those products. (quietly sliding that soapbox to the side).

I use no scented products. Dawn is poison to me, but I can use it now after nearly 30 years, in small amounts. I just used it to scrub out 3 barrels, rinsed, used Clorox, rinsed -again. But I feel the tingle on my lips and tongue that tells me I used too much of it for too long of a time. Clorox doesn’t bother me. Any and all perfumes, scented everything, makes me react. I used to react to filling up the gas tank, had to stand up wind, several feet away until I put up the nozzle and hose.

 

[peteyfoozer]

 

[peteyfoozer]

Story of my life…

 

[fuzzi]

I use no scented products. Dawn is poison to me, but I can use it now after nearly 30 years, in small amounts. I just used it to scrub out 3 barrels, rinsed, used Clorox, rinsed -again. But I feel the tingle on my lips and tongue that tells me I used too much of it for too long of a time. Clorox doesn’t bother me. Any and all perfumes, scented everything, makes me react. I used to react to filling up the gas tank, had to stand up wind, several feet away until I put up the nozzle and hose.

I'm sensitive to scents, too. There's a woman who works across the hall from our main administration office, and we think she's a germophobe. When she arrives in the morning she sprays her entire office with Lysol. I think she was also spraying as she walked down the main hallways to her section because everywhere I walked I was in a cloud. I finally told her to stop spraying the halls, and when she sprays her office to keep her door closed so we're not choking on it.

 

[Baymule]

Amazing how the label warns against skin contact, ingestion, getting in your eyes, etc. BUT take a deep breath and suck it into your lungs. People have been conditioned to be so stupid.

 

[fuzzi]

Amazing how the label warns against skin contact, ingestion, getting in your eyes, etc. BUT take a deep breath and suck it into your lungs. People have been conditioned to be so stupid.

She's young, and believes everything she's told.