The Environmental Illness Resource Blog

I suffer from severe chemical, electrical, mold, sun, sound, and vibration sensitivities. I have been challenged with lyme disease, mold illness, chemical injury, digestive disease, and heavy metal poisoning. I have found many silver linings in my journey, which I like to share with others more than talking about illness. This is part of my story. You can read more on my full blog at http://planetthrive.com/members/blog/earthwalker. Peace.

This is a post from my Planet Thrive blog from last month. Thought it would be good to share here so people can see how others are living with MCS.

 


What is body odor? What makes someone smell clean? In our society, we equate a perfume-y, fragranced smell with clean and normal body odor as dirty.

My boyfriend has not washed with soap in five years. He was nervous when we first met that I would think he smelled bad. On the contrary, I actually really loved his smell. That's because his diet is pure and he has minimal exposure to toxins in personal care and other types of products. So there is no bad smelly stuff to sweat out. Just normal human smell. I much prefer it to nasty chemicals in fragrances that are just masking over dirt.
If you smell bad enough to want to use perfume, take a good look at your diet and lifestyle and start cleaning those up before you reach for the carcinogenic chemicals in fragranced products.