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GoodyTwoShoes
Oct 26, 2013

Hav posted:

One of the tragic/amusing parts of the aromatherapy fad was finding that orange oil, a toxin, was more readily absorbed by the skin than was first thought. Some people play a little too fast and loose with some chemicals because it takes a few months for exposure to build up, rather than causing injury immediately.

See also Egyptian lead based cosmetics and arsenic bleaching powders. Counter: Churchill's crack lozenges. History gets a pass because they don't know any better.

Wait, is aromatherapy orange oil the same as the orange oil in my furniture polish? My google-fu is weak, and I can't find a comparison, just one or the other. I'm pretty sure the one in furniture polish isn't from fruit-orange trees, too.

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GoodyTwoShoes
Oct 26, 2013
Thank you. I don't polish as often as I'm supposed to (it's every 5 years, right?), so my hands are safe from irritants. Whew.

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