'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
Yeah, it is horrifying to think about how much air pollution we inflict upon ourselves. It&#x27;s very hard to stop even in a two-person household, because so many of the &quot;products&quot; most people in the Western world are used to buying and using since an early age are violators. I am blessed with being quite sensitive to most of them, so it&#x27;s an endless struggle with partners and cohabitants.<p>Basically anything bought new has it: furniture, clothes, cars, anything plastic, dyed, glued, particleboard.<p>&quot;Cleaning&quot; products: sprays, detergents, most &quot;soaps&quot;, shampoos, creams, conditioners, have this type of crap in them.<p>Even most stuff which claims to be &quot;eco-friendly&quot; is bullshit, and has all the same crap in it if you look at the ingredients.<p>And it feels like online there is a whole army of &quot;rational scientific defenders&quot; ready to jump into action anytime I mention it. It feels like there is a whole playbook for discrediting this type of comment, and calling into question how &quot;scientific&quot; it is, etc.