I just object to overly perfumed *anything*. I don't think perfumed laundry liquid makes clothes smell nice, I think it makes them smell overpowering.. I can't cope with it on my own clothes and if I have a whole bunch of them drying in the bathroom I get a migraine. Plus the perfume doesn't do anything for my skin.
well clearly everything smells of something, but I don't see the need to add smells to anything for their own sake. I can see the point in, say, washing up liquid that smells of lemons, because the environmentally friendly stuff often uses lemon as an active ingredient. Same deal with anti-perspirants. If I want to smell of something in particular I'll choose a perfume I like, I don't want it to be overwhelmed by a score of other perfumes that have been arbitrarily added to everything I've touched that day, and the same with my house.
Sadly I seem to be in the minority and unscented products are hard to come by :(
I can't stand lemon-flavoured washing up stuff, though lemon itself is an excellent alternative cleaner, and less stinky than vinegar, not in washing up liquid though... i like lightly-perfumed things but do prefer *some* fragrance, not sure these ones that advertise jojoaba and coconut and pearls in the fabric softener are quite on the same planet, mind *boggles*
i'm sensitive to a lot of chemicals and air fresheners and cleaning products but luckily the scents on other people's detergent don't trouble me..
I don't like lemon FLAVOURED washing up liquid, just stuff like the ecover one in which the very slight lemon scent is an inevitable side-effect of it being used as an active ingredient. I'd quite prefer it if the only ingredients in such things were the ones that actually had to be there to make the product effective. Artificially synthesised perfumes don't. And in laundry liquid, the only purpose I can discern for perfume is to disguise the smell of dirt when they are no longer clean.. personally I'd rather just wash them again
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I can't remmeber what's in the ecover one but I think I'm allergic.. mind you, Fairy makes my hands itch a bit but its better than the others... Do like clothes smelling fresh I'm afraid, we used those eco-balls instead of laundry liquid for a while and I'm glad we went back to liquid (the balls didn't get the clothes very clean and tended to age them faster cos of the friction :( ).
It does make you wonder what they put in some of this stuff, on the whole!
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Sadly I seem to be in the minority and unscented products are hard to come by :(
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i'm sensitive to a lot of chemicals and air fresheners and cleaning products but luckily the scents on other people's detergent don't trouble me..
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It does make you wonder what they put in some of this stuff, on the whole!
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