After this special characteristic was discovered, CFCs (especially CFC-11 and CFC-12) have come to play a critical role in everything from hair spray, shaving cream, air freshener, pesticides, and insecticides to medically useful products like asthma or allergy nose sprays or pain relief for sore muscles like the commercial product Salongpas.
這項特性被發現後，從髮膠、刮鬍水、芳香劑，農藥、殺蟲劑，到醫療用的氣喘或鼻子過敏噴劑、肌肉酸痛的撒隆巴斯類噴劑… … 等等，氟氯碳化物（以其中的 CFC-11 和 CFC-12 為主）都扮演著重要角色。