Bluntly, all those nasty air freshening products advertised in the grocery make me sick. I get a terrible headache and accompanied sinus disturbances when I'm exposed. I'd rather smell dogs and not get sick from it any day! Ooh, but dogs can get rank too! I have special dogs. Doggy perfumes do bad things to their delicate pit skins, so I just stick to frequent washings with their Castile soap. I have discovered that if I wash dogs and beddings in the same day, their odors are greatly reduced. Actually they are imperceptible to me, but perhaps not so much to others. Since my dogs aren't out wallowing in the mud or rolling in various gross things, they stay stink tolerable for several days. Commercially produced commonly available air fresheners are loaded with mysterious fragrance cocktails and around here that is a bad thing. I prefer the delightful natural scents of the essential oils wafting through the house as I put them into my soap or lotions. I love it when the kids come home and exclaim about the wonderful way the house smells after I have made a batch. Scented candles can produce misery on the next level for me. Typically the fumes cause all of the symptoms from air freshener exposure plus some evil chest sensations and some coughing. I love fire but I hate smoke and the accompanying stenches. I especially hate it when someone blows a candle flame out! Noxious! A nice way to extinguish a flame is to simply smother it in the wax. I have a little piece of wire for this. I just bend the wick into the melted wax and then straighten it up when its out. Since I do love a lit candle, I decided to make some that were not offensive. Rather than coloring them with potentially noxious coal tar based colorants and scenting them with evil fragrances, I began making and testing candles that contained essential oils for scent and no colorants. Ah, yes! Candles that even I could handle! The versatility and renewability of soy wax gave it instant appeal for me for candle and body applications. The scented candles that I offer now are made with only natural soy wax, essential oils and herbs. They exude a non overwhelming yet gradually pervasive scent. As I'm writing this, I'm enjoying the earthy Evergreen Spice blend poured around a new wick design I'm testing. My daughter told me that this one reminds her of walking in a forest and scuffling leaves. I do not make scented candles that serve to drown out other stenches, but rather to serve as aromatic additions to the atmosphere. The best way to cure a stink is to remove the source, rather than add to it with a bunch of alleged "air fresheners". I like what this lady writes about it:_http://cleanmyspace.com/the-truth-about-air-fresheners/
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