This time of year you will notice a significant rise in advertisements on TV for perfume. Pretty young models selling a lifestyle that is inferred if you purchase. Another layer of chemical brew to add to the current cauldron of beauty products. What is real any more?
From fake tan, contouring caked makeup, false eye lashes, hd brows, lip filler, botox, hair products, gel nails and let’s not forget the teeth scenario it is amazing that there is time to get out the door every day. If I was a 20 something would I be slathered in fake tan perfumes and have false teeth and lip filler as the norm because I was groomed into thinking this is normal? The lotions and potions of the beauty industry are staggering in volume. Is the demand that much? How on earth can our body cope with the onslaught of toxicity? In reality it doesn’t. Our bodies adapt and adjust. Our babies take the brunt. We are paying the price everyday with the impact of this toxic overload. These concoctions end up in our waste water and environment along with all the pesticides and herbicides. The beauty industry has many dark secrets and are becoming an environmental concern in more ways than one. The reality is disturbing but the evidence of harm is clear to see more and more. But perhaps I can see it now because I am older. People have choices of course. I am not here to judge. I will make a point though about the smell factor. Perfumes, deodorants and body sprays are that miasma that invades directly into everyone else’s space whether you like it or not. I have a teenage daughter who thinks it is totally usual to have a cloud of spray around her going to school. Husband is totally against any personal care products and just relies on cold showers. So you can imagine the conversations in our house. Our homes can be somehow controlled. But what about the workplace? Second hand smoke impact resulted in the justifiable smoking ban. Thoughts were of the workers in pubs and restaurants. Imagine if we had a similar version in legislation for extreme perfume users in the work situation…? A perfume shed as it were. So that we had areas of clear air we can breathe in while we work? Hairdressers, nail bars, pharmacies, department stores having dedicated strong smell areas. Or should the workers in these areas wear a dedicated protection such as a gas mask? Work places that insisted you removed all excess before starting work? When you are on that health journey of detoxing you find that smells become difficult to bear. I do believe we are reaching our limits of tolerance. The excess smells may be pushing us over an edge. Anne Maher
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