β Frederick Pohl
π Fiction
π
1956
π Ballantine
π English
β 29 KB
π 1 views
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The Case Against Fragrance
β Scribed by Kate Grenville
- Publisher
- The Text Publishing Company
- Year
- 2018;2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 92 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1925410315
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty. Then the headaches started.
Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around us: other peopleβs perfumes, and all those scented cosmetics, cleaning products and air fresheners. On a book tour in 2015, dogged by ill health, she started wondering: whatβs in fragrance? Who tests it for safety? What does it do to people?
The more Grenville investigated, the more she felt this was a story that should be told. The chemicals in fragrance can be linked not only to short-term problems like headaches and asthma, but to long-term ones like hormone disruption and cancer. Yet products can be released onto the market without testing. Theyβre regulated only by the same people who make and sell them. And the ingredients donβt even have to be named on the label.
This book is based on careful research into the science of scent and the power of the...
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