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" Chemicals \u2014 &amp;quot;hundreds of different chemicals that are contained in car-interior components,&amp;quot; according to Jeff Gearhart, the Ecology Center&amp;#039;s HealthyCar.org research director. &amp;quot;They range from smells you would more commonly associate with paints and solvents to adhesives. It&amp;#039;s really a complex chemical cocktail mixture from all these multiple sources that you smell floating around in the air.&amp;quot; Paul Dan Schneider, VP of marketing for Chemical Guys, whose new-car air freshener is designed to mimic the new-car scent, notes, &amp;quot;If you go to a factory, you&amp;#039;ll notice most people who assemble cars wear a mask. They have a mask because they&amp;#039;re constantly made to smell that new-car smell. That smell is not necessarily healthy for you. Most of those odors are VOCs, volatile organic compounds. All of our fragrances are naturally derived, combined to emulate a new-car smell without being bad for you.&amp;quot; Lane Pietro, whose Lane&amp;#039;s Car Products also offers new-car and leather-scented air fresheners, does not recommend using his products on your face: &amp;quot;No, no, no,&amp;quot; he warns. Nor does Mr. Schneider: &amp;quot;Definitely not.&amp;quot; Which leaves Quaker State 5W30 as an automotive aftershave option. Got a question? Send it to answerfella@esquire.com.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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