We ask them to avoid scented products, including cleaning products, air fresheners, and scented personal care products, because phthalates hold scent.
A lot of things caused Susie pain: scented products, pesticides, plastic, synthetic fabrics, smoke, electronic radiation – the list went on.
In 2003, they spent $1.7 billion on scented products -- from the trusty spray behind the toilet to a perfumed frame for a cat or dog's portrait (called Frame-a-Pet), according to a Euromonitor report.
In a 2009 study, Anne M Steinemann, an internationally recognized expert on pollutant exposures and related health effects, found that 30.5% of the US population reported skin irritation or headaches (and in some cases both) when exposed to scented products.
The most commonly used scented products are the Aveda Rosemary Mint Shampoo, which has a minty, woodsy smell, and Jo Malone Lime Basil and Mandarin cologne.
Participants reported use of several different household sprays and scented products.
This hypothesis might also apply to effects of long-term exposures to household sprays and scented products.
Participants who used scented products 4 7 days/week also had reduced 24-hr SDNN [ 9%9595% CI: –16, –1%)] compared with unexposed participants.
Log-transformed 24-hr SDNN, TP, LF, and HF were regressed separately against the different categorical variables of cleaning spray, air freshening spray, scented products, and number of different sprays used weekly in multiple linear regression (PROC GLM).
Exposures resulting from the use of household sprays and scented products also may be modified by home characteristics, such as room size, humidity, ventilation, and temperature, but this information was not collected.
Unadjusted average percent changes of each summary HRV measure in association with frequency of using cleaning sprays, air freshening sprays, scented products, and number of sprays used weekly are summarized in Supplemental Material, Table 3 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1104567).org/10.1289/ehp.1104567
