Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) affects millions of Americans, as well as millions of people in other countries where artificial perfumes and pesticides are used. Perfumes are the most ubiquitous of hazardous waste chemicals, since "formulations" changed in the early 80s. Since that time, asthma rates have skyrocketed 80%, and MCS has become a debilitating epidemic.

Man-made scents contain hundreds of untested unregulated petrochemicals, solvents, carcinogens, aldehydes, phthalates (suspected of causing birth defects), benzenes (recently linked with leukemia), phenols, narcotics, and most alarming, neurotoxins (chemicals that slowly poison the central nervous system). They also contain chemicals which are known sensitizers, as well as countless chemicals listed on the EPA's Hazardous Waste List.

Please learn more by reading my book, Get a Whiff of This: Perfumes (fragrances)--the Invisible Chemical Poisons, by Connie Pitts. Foreword by Rosalind C. Anderson. www.authorhouse.com, www.amazon.com, www.bn.com. I hope you will read the reviews.
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You can learn a great deal by reading the following websites: www.fpinva.org, www.ehnca.org, www.nottoopretty.org, www.outlittleplace.org, and www.dldewey.com/perfume.htm for an overall briefing.

The numbers of people with MCS continue to rise--so does breast cancer, all neurological diseases, children's cancers, and the indoor air quality in most public buildings is worse than it has ever been in American history, despite the removal of tobacco smoke.

MCS is a debilitating disease, and no one is immune to its effects. It may happen slowly, then become disabling. There is no cure, only avoidance. Millions of people lose their jobs, friends and end up homeless. It can happen to anyone. My own personal experience began with becoming sensitive to my perfume. There is no warning label on these deleterious products. After years of repeated exposures to other people's scents, I am now primarily housebound. What is most troubling is knowing that most people continue to use harmful, falsely advertised, products because they simply do not know the health risks, until it's too late.