As someone who's rather badly chemically sensitive (to perfumes in particular) I've come to always reading the label since that sort of thing is rather common. (Granted I should really only use things made with all organic ingredients.)
I got caught out by the masking fragrance thing too, but with an antiperspirant. It's not that I have a problem with the perfume, it's just that the fragrances they put in antiperspirant are invariably cheap and awful, and overpower anything else you might have put on. You'd think that the 'unscented' version would be designed to solve this problem, but really it's still got a scent, just that vague sweet stuff they put in talcum powder.
I can understand that people don't like the smell of the propane propellant in the can, but it only lasts a few minutes before it evaporates...
If it says unscented, it shouldn't have a goddamn perfume in it.Highly irritating. Very little of my personal care items are artificially scented, and I've come to think the typical fragrances are both hollow and cloying. Annoying when I can't get rid of them. Most of the liquid hand soap options on the market are not clean rinsing enough for me. Does no one else taste the soap on their fingers when they eat after they wash their hands? Or do they stand at the sink for 5 minutes furiously scrubbing off the residue? Maybe it's just my sensitivities (fragrances, detergents, and preservatives) + OCD... (Out damned spot
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Yeah, I figured that the testers were probably used to standard fragrances, and perhaps don't have noses as sensitive as some of us. I could smell well before pregnancy, but during, my nose got about twice as sharp, and the effect hasn't gone away. I showered last night, and I can still detect a faint trace of perfume on my skin from bath products.
I buy a strongly lemon scented hand soap, because it's the only one I can stand and the only one that gets rid of/masks food odors on my fingers. Having my hands smell like food makes me very twitchy, and if I touch my food with my hands I can usually smell it for hours afterwards. But most hand soaps smell unpleasant, don't remove food odors, or both.
Yeah, my father is allergic to most fragrances beside the natural ones. It'd a pain in the ass. I means that I have to put my bath stuff aside so he doesn't accidentally use them, and I have to use a special detergent to do laundry.
If I brought something 'unscented' for him and he reacted to it, ill'd be rather pissed.
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I got caught out by the masking fragrance thing too, but with an antiperspirant. It's not that I have a problem with the perfume, it's just that the fragrances they put in antiperspirant are invariably cheap and awful, and overpower anything else you might have put on. You'd think that the 'unscented' version would be designed to solve this problem, but really it's still got a scent, just that vague sweet stuff they put in talcum powder.
I can understand that people don't like the smell of the propane propellant in the can, but it only lasts a few minutes before it evaporates...
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I buy a strongly lemon scented hand soap, because it's the only one I can stand and the only one that gets rid of/masks food odors on my fingers. Having my hands smell like food makes me very twitchy, and if I touch my food with my hands I can usually smell it for hours afterwards. But most hand soaps smell unpleasant, don't remove food odors, or both.
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If I brought something 'unscented' for him and he reacted to it, ill'd be rather pissed.
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