How Body Spray Affect Your Health??



Every time I see someone using a body spray in my gym, I walk to the other side of the changing room. Why? Few seem to understand these air-freshener-like body sprays contain synthetic fragrances that are made from many chemicals, many of which may be very harmful to the health of not only the person who is ‘wearing’ them but all those breathing the air around them, too.

Body Sprays and Perfumes have now become an essential need for everybody, particularly teenagers. Walk past an adolescent, and you’d smell the extreme fragrance of body sprays lingering all day long.
Bodysprays contain toxins like hormone-disrupting phthalates and synthetic musks, which have been associated with serious health risks, including heart disease.

Teenage boys and girls are particularly susceptible to hormone-disrupting chemicals like phthalates because of the ways the chemicals influence their rapidly developing reproductive systems. Animal studies have found that male rats exposed to phthalates during puberty had more testicular problems, and a report from the Journal for Applied Toxicology has suggested that there may be a link between spraying the hormone-disrupting chemicals contained in deodorants and breast cancer, especially those tumours found in the outer quarter of the breast.

But these chemicals also have immediate negative health effects on many full-grown adults, too, including triggering asthma, eye and throat irritation, dermatitis, and more. The manufacturers surely know it, too otherwise, why would there be warnings on the back of Lynx canisters that advise ‘use in short bursts in well-ventilated spaces’; ‘avoid prolonged spraying’ and ‘keep out of reach of children’?

Fortunately, you can still smell wonderful without ruining your health! There are several alternatives to perilous body spray that you can make at home or buy. If you want to get all boho and create your body deodorizer, baking soda can be mixed with a small amount of water or oil to cornstarch, to absorb moisture.

The equivalent effect of antiperspirant deodorants is often obtained using witch hazel because it constricts the pores so sweat can’t seep through and blend with the bacteria on the skin. Alcohol and lemon may even help kill bacteria that cause odours, and beeswax, mineral salts, and essential oils also are tried and tested deodorant alternatives.

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