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Andrea's avatar

Yes, I know exactly what you mean. Once we left Pennsylvania and the Northeast, we didn’t notice it anymore. Even grocery store foods taste like it. I remember ordering our wedding cake from a good bakery and it tasted like it from the butter. The only grocery stores in PA I didn’t notice it in are Wegman’s….they must have a superior trucking system. Even their store doesn’t smell too badly in “that aisle.” I’m 2020, it became super extreme with the introduction of those plug-in air fresheners. My husband did construction work for some people and we couldn’t get it out of his clothes. I tried buying special laundry stuff that swore it removed all chemical fragrance…didn’t help. What happened was our washer gasket ended up smelling like it. I left his clothes hanging out on the line for a good month in all kinds of weather and finally the smell was gone and the clothes were badly faded. When people would come over to our house, I would open windows and put blankets on the sofa and immediately remove them as soon as they left.

I had made my own laundry and body products for years. I have a super sensitive sense of smell; we joke in my family that I’m like a bloodhound. Those smells are even more offensive when you’ve removed all of them from your own life. We had a 3-acre property and I’d be out gardening in the middle of it or on an opposite end of it from people walking, and I smelled them. Aside from the endocrine disruptors meant to kill people, I also wondered if it wasn’t a way to track people down.

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vejjiejamie's avatar

we bought an ozone machine and we have had luck ozonating clothes and produce and eliminating the smells or at least the INTENSITY of them, it takes like 3 rounds of 30 mins each, especially for the clothes - any fabrics - then launder them. theres no chemicals involved in ozonating, just an extra molecule of oxygen. those plug ins cause seizures in people and animals, VILE EVIL 👹👹👹👹👹

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