Fragrance Research Paper

Chemicals are widely used in plenty of places in daily life, ranging from food to the tire of bikes. They are helpful in improving the productivity of food and properties of some materials. However, their toxicity have mild to severe negative effect to human’s health for different length of time.

The reasons why people use so many chemicals can be divided into two categories: gain better product and gain more profit. The first category is the main reason for people to start using chemicals because they can improve people’s living standards by strengthen the properties of materials, speed up the production, kill bacteria, etc. The second category, however, is the reason why people keep using the chemicals even though their benefits may be

Most of the hazards for fragrance are allergy and irritation of respiratory system. Fragrance is better described as a category rather than a single ingredient. Many products has the word “fragrance” labeled in their bottles. Being a mixture of many chemicals, there is a concern about the ingredient not fully labeled. There are some fragrance ingredient that can cause allergy in a high rate to certain groups of people, while the others do not. So they can be regarded as toxic to some people, but are acceptable to other people. Fragrance cannot be defined as toxic since it does not show negative health influence on all people. It is not fair to the customers by only displaying the word “fragrance” without giving people the right to know all of the names of the ingredient, especially when fragrance is rated as moderate to high hazard. It may be difficult for an individual who is in favor of fragrance to give up using products with aroma. Buying products with fragrance from natural ingredients is a good way to prevent inhaling toxic chemicals from fragrance. Fragrance free products are safer to pregnant women and babies. Thus these fragrance free products are recommended to the individual who has never used a chemical product