Fighting the stink
I love second-hand clothes. I love when people give me big bags of clothes for my kids. What I don’t love is fighting the stink of perfumes that often accompany the nicest clothes. Why can’t clothes smell like fabric and people smell like people? I wonder if most people realize that perfumes contain petroleum. I wonder if people realize that fabric softeners just coat clothing in grease to counteract all the build-up left by detergents.
What really gets me the most, is that people are so accustomed to perfumey smells that they forget why perfume was invented. Perfumes were invented to cover the smell of people who did not bathe. In a society where most of the population washes daily, they are superfluous. People who wear perfumes and/or wash their clothes with perfumated detergent or fabric softener might as well wear a sign that says, “Yes, I am dirty and I need perfumes to cover the stink.”
Please, people, if your clothes are clean–don’t stink them up. If you are clean–don’t stink yourself up.
I am a stay at home mother to a toddler and an infant. I enjoy sewing and learning css. My greatest dream is for 70%-80% of women in the U.S. to recieve the safest prenatal and labor care available for low risk births--a midwife's care!