Perfume companies ARE NOT regulated by LAW!! They can put whatever they want in a product and YOU won't know it.

I am not alone in the disease I carry with me.  Multiple Chemical Sensitivity/Intolerances are debilitating, humiliating and depressing.  Trying to live a life where you either never go out of your house (in the city, I couldn’t walk outside because one of our neighbors CONSTANTLY having her dryer running with dryer sheets loaded up!  See one of my previous posts for a link on the chemical toxins IN YOUR DRYER SHEETS!!!!) OR you prepare yourself through the week and have to try to second guess society on how busy the store you need to grocery shop or business you may have to enter will be.  Not only your purse, wallet or pocketbook, you also have to MAKE CERTAIN you have your mask, nose plugs and eye drops.  You might want to keep pain killers close by for the headaches and don't you wish you could carry an oxygen tank in your car for the shortness of breath and gasping for air?  My trips out are about as SHORT and SHORTER as they can be and I make every effort NOT to enter when I don't have my mask.  It seems every time I do, I regret it horribly.

 

Having MCS is a TRAUMATIC experience in which most, if not all of the people you know or meet doubt what you say, why you say it and how they react to you can be such a roller coaster ride you don’t know whether you are coming or going.

My disease is not one that shows.  It is a chemical and fragrance intolerance to minute (my-neoot) toxins in the air.  Many “fragrances” in this day and age are manufactured.  Perfume companies ARE NOT regulated by ANY law.  PERFUME COMPANIES REGULATE THEMSELVES!

http://www.ourlittleplace.com/chemicals.html

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/perfume-chemicals-toxic-0525

http://www.jurgita.com/articles-id111.html

An exerpt from EHow.com link: http://www.ehow.com/how_5916603_research-perfume-ingredients.html --

http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/index.php  or  http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/ 

I believe the two above links to the same website, but the ewg.org is the actual name on the web address.  These are sites that lets you search cosmetics by product name and includes both ingredients as well as a toxicity rating.  On these site, if you enter the name of the product, it will let you know (as much as they can), the toxicity and...

Read more: http://www.ehow.com/how_5916603_research-perfume-ingredients.html#ixzz2hq6XasMJ

... Just for fun, I looked up the perfume I wore as a young adult, no wonder my son had childhood asthma!  http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/brand/Tabu/   It states in part:

Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive);

WHAT DO YOU WEAR?