Hi All. I am wondering....are people with chemical sensitivities affected by the "natural" perfumes you can buy? Like those from places like The Body Shop or something like that?
I would like to wear a light scent sometime but not sure if I should try because regular perfume and cologne make me really sick.
But if I were to smell a fruit or a flower, I dont get sick ....i also dont think i get sick from smelling essential oils...but i am not totally sure. Maybe if I smelled them all day I would...?
Thanks!
xo
The flower isn't a synthetic chemical, you'd probably only get it smelling it if you had a pollen allergy.
The scent is made in test tubes, with heaven knows what, volatile chemicals to the CNS in people who are hypersensitive.
If you feel 'nervous' or dizzy and just really sick around scents not just tight chested or headachey, but actually like the same feeling of an impending anxiety attack and feel faint and weak, it's because your sympathetic nervous system is freaking out inhaling the chemical, e.g. a man's aftershave, or women's perfume, fabric conditioner, bleach in the toilet etc and then you get a hormonal reaction from this. A flight or fight response. Other people don't get this with MCS and 'just' get Asthma/sneeze. Next time it happens, if you can and it's safe too, check your blood pressure response to chemical that don't agree with you. Would be interesting to see if you get 'aroused' (higher BP) or it does the opposite and takes your circulation out (low BP).
I can't really see a way around this to be honest, until your illness puzzle is solved and all the evidence comes pouring out of scientists publications of how our genes and metabolism are totally trashed with your illness, and then why this all links in with our CNS being affected by the slightest signal, even scent of perfume.