Aaah, because I love the sweet smell of petrochemicals...
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A piggy back to my last post “clean beauty”— Fragrance another exhaustive topic but let’s dive in a bit! Definitely recommend going free if you have any apparent inflammatory skin condition!
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First, fragrance is put in cosmetics to entice you. To provoke a sensorial experience that you get from applying a scented product. Additionally, fragrance is often added to cosmetics to mask unpleasant scents that some ingredients might scare away some consumers, so many companies add scents to mask it. Fragrance is a complex material as it can contain thousands of ingredients, and many companies do not disclose what the actual composition is. It will be difficult to hone in on the particular chemical one may be sensitive to.
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Common in perfumes are styrenes and phthalates which are known endocrine disruptors and carcinogens and are extremely common in fragrance. I think like...
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