Do freshly washed clothes smell like something? Experts warn: Don't put it in your closet yet! Let it dry for at least X days before collecting it
Do freshly washed clothes have a “smell”? Chlorine-containing dry cleaning agents may cause cancer and obesity risks
There is a unique smell in the laundry or freshly washed clothes. For people who can’t stand this smell, it should be said that their body’s sensors are activated and they instinctively feel that “this smell is harmful to the body.” The source of this odor is “chlorine-containing dry cleaning agents,” which are obesogenic factors that can lead to obesity, cancer, heart disease, and allergic symptoms.
Although dry cleaning has the word “dry” in it, it actually means washing with water. You will understand if you try it yourself. The decontamination process of dry cleaning is exactly the same as hand washing at home. You pay someone to decontaminate your clothes, but you end up bringing back clothes with obesity-causing factors attached to them. If you wash them by hand at home, you don’t have to spend half a dime, and you can get them clean in just a short time. Which way is better? In fact, it is a matter of judgment.
If you wash by hand, do not use synthetic detergents, use natural detergents. Take me as an example, I am a fan of the fragrance-free series of cleaners from Ecover (Belgian brand); however, I also recommend the method of mixing citric acid and baking soda. However, if it is a suit or dress, it is troublesome to deal with it yourself, and it must be dry-cleaned.
Don’t put the clothes in the closet immediately after washing! Expert tip: Leave it outside to dry for at least X days
If you have to send the clothes to be washed, don’t put them in the closet immediately after taking them home from the laundry. Doing so will keep the obesogens in the closet. The next time you wear this piece of clothing, when you open the plastic sleeve, you will inhale many of the obesogenic factors that have been shaken out.
Therefore, when you take the clothes home, do not hang them directly in the bedroom. If you hang it in your bedroom, you will be breathing in obesogenic factors while you sleep. Sleeping time is an important recovery time for the brain and intestines. It is necessary to avoid absorbing obesogenic factors while sleeping. Therefore, after getting the clothes back from the laundry, immediately remove the plastic covers and dry them outdoors in the shade for three days. Chlorine dry cleaning agent is a volatile substance. As long as it comes into contact with the outside air, it can greatly reduce the damage caused by obesity factors.
Is using fragrance to deodorize your body really harmful? I’m afraid even the pet’s health will be at risk.
There should be many people who use fragrance at home, right? Because I have pets, I hate the smell of kitchen waste, the smell of cigarette smoke, and I want to get rid of the smell of toilets, I use fragrances. Perhaps because everyone has different purposes for using them, drug stores and other stores display a variety of fragrance products classified according to their uses. As long as you pass near the store, even if the fragrance products have not been opened, you will still smell the fragrance and make you dizzy.
I guess there are many people who put fragrance in the toilet or room and spray it several times a day, right? However, as you might imagine, fragrances also contain obesogenic factors. Plastics and plasticizers phthalates, which appear many times in this book, are the ingredients used in fragrances. The scarier thing about fragrances than plastics is that they mix with the air as soon as they are sprayed. When we inhale, we also inhale the plasticizer phthalates.
Moreover, in order to make the fragrance last longer, manufacturers will “nanoize” the ingredients. In other words, the particles of toxic ingredients are minimized, making it easier to enter cells. “The room stinks, you have to find a way to solve it!” If you use fragrances for this reason, you will inhale a large amount of obesogenic factors, causing hormonal imbalance in the metabolic system, making the body fat invisibly, and causing great harm to health.
Also, pets are smaller than us and are exposed to far higher hazards than we are. People who use fragrances to eliminate pet odors are removing the pet’s health along with the deodorization. Never use the scent of fragrances to cover up home odors. The first priority is to clean, maintain ventilation, and use an air purifier.
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