Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Sense and nonscents Message-ID: <211@opus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 22:20:13 EST Article-I.D.: opus.211 Posted: Thu Mar 8 22:20:13 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 11:15:11 EST Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 40 I'm looking for reactions, experience, etc. on something that periodically gets me furious: the grand American practice of putting cheap perfume in damn near everything. One of my particular problem areas is that I brew my own beer. The hardest part of good brewing is keeping everything clean. I used to use Dow "bathroom cleaner" for cleaning out the kitchen sink so that I had a clean place to start cleaning up the equipment. No more; it now has a cheap scent added that takes forever to rinse away. I used to use standard old Parson's ammonia to remove labels from bottles I wanted to reuse. No more; it now has a cheap scent added that I can't get out of the bottles. I used to use Arm & Hammer washing soda for the stubborn bottle-cleaning. No more; you guessed it, it's now "IMPROVED!!" The last one here is the most ridiculous - how does one "improve" sodium carbonate?!@#$&*^@!!!! Another example: I happen to sunburn very easily, so to me the PABA-based sunscreens are a godsend BUT I have to go through an entire display of perhaps two dozen products to find one (if I'm lucky) that doesn't leave me smelling like I just stepped out of a cheap whorehouse! (Most also leave me feeling like I've been basted with pork fat, but that's another matter.) And to me, the extreme is scented toilet paper! Come on, there are some smells that no amount of perfume can cover... I understand that there are people who are allergic to these perfumes and that this creates a fairly serious problem. Is there any sort of organized attack on the silly use of perfumes in everything? The only solution I've found, which works for some types of products, is to buy the "generic" or "house brand" products, which usually don't bother with scents. I also find it galling that the scents are not only unnecessary but very persistent and poor quality - it ain't Chanel No 5 you smell. Oooooff! Should I have sent this to net.flame instead? Anyway, I'd like to hear some other responses on this nonscents. -- {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd