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It's bad enough when Aunt Tillie wears that awful perfume
- but then, when you get your hug from Aunt Tillie, your day
can literally be ruined because you end up wearing that
smell as well.
Perfumes are scents that are meant to last a long time. The
chemical fixatives help the scent cling to your body and
clothes - and even transfer from one person to another.
Personally, I have difficulty being around any artificial
scent because of the petro chemicals that make up the scent.
Most of these chemicals are harmful to your health.
I have to admit that I really get nuts when people hug me
(many people hug in my professional circles) and they are
wearing perfume.
I am especially aghast (okay, I guess this article is
turning into a rant) at people who have challenging health
problems or who have been diagnosed with a disease and they
still wear perfume.
And get this. . .they put perfume on their neck, chest,
wrists, insides of their arms - right where there are
arteries (blood vessels carrying fresh oxygenated blood)
close to the skin and where lymph nodes (part of the system
that carries toxins out of the body - many cancers can
involve lymph) are gathered.
Even if the perfume is said to have essential oils in them
it doesn't mean they are okay. When the smell lingers -
there are petro chemicals present.
Pure
therapeutic grade essential oils are volatile - they
will evaporate and dissipate after they enter the
environment and complete their work at creating balance.
The smell and physical properties only hang out for a short
time - and then go away (but what's lovely is that the
energy still remains!).
I remember when I used to take Mom for her cancer treatments
and we used to sit in the waiting room. There were so many
female patients there wearing perfume.
I often thought that "Keeping petro chemicals off the body"
should be on the top of the list of what health care
professionals direct patients to do for themselves as they
work on healing their disease.
The body, the liver, and the immune system have enough work
to do in fighting disease and trying to get back into
balance without having to metabolize more chemicals from
perfume.
Essential oils on the other hand work to clean the body from
its petro chemical exposure - ONLY if they are therapeutic
grade oils.
When I teach about essential oils I insist that people fully
understand the difference between a
therapeutic grade oil and a perfume grade oil.
One surefire way to tell if an essential oil is therapeutic
grade is by noting the AFNOR Standard. (Association French
Normalization Organization Regulation).
But a real easy way to know (if it is a single oil and not a
blend) is that many therapeutic oils are such a high quality
that they are safe enough to be taken internally and you
will find "Supplemental Facts" on the label. The FDA
oversees this and they supervise the "supplemental facts
label" through their Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS) list.
There are other ways to smell good - sweet, soft, sexy -
whatever way you want to smell - without loading yourself
with perfume and making yourself more toxic. And that is
with the use of
therapeutic essential oils.
When you wear therapeutic essential oils and you hug someone
- you are not slathering them with chemicals - you are
enhancing their state of health for that moment. What a nice
thing to do.
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