I think that it would be extremely difficult to completely eliminate our exposures to fragrances in hospitals, schools, or any other setting. While we can enforce policies that ban the use of products containing fragrance in these facilities, we still need to consider the fragrance in the products used by the staff, students, patients, and other employees in these settings. Implementing policies that ban the use of products containing fragrance for people would mean denying people of their freedom to choose what products they wish to use. In addition, not everyone has the ability and financial resources to purchase fragrance-free products, therefore implementing such policies would be unfair.
We could however drastically decrease our exposure to fragrances by implementing a policy that requires the use of fragrance-free cleaning products, hand soap, laundry detergent, and other products used and purchased by these facilities. In addition, removing the use of air fresheners and candles in these settings like inside offices. Lastly, by limiting the number of products containing fragrance that staff, students, patients, and other employees use while attending these facilities. By doing this we can decrease exposures to products containing fragrance in schools, hospitals, and other settings.
Thank you for sharing your thought and concerns.
ReplyDeleteHi Syria! thanks for your post - I agree it would be difficult to get rid of fragrance free products/ zones , but the industry is quickly changing too! noticed your comment about the financial burden, but if more industries change their products, we won't have this issue! if you are looking for more fragrance free products, lately a lot of them are in baby products (lotions, soaps) which also perform the same!
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