Air Fresheners: Easy Greening

The study didn’t analyze the ingredients in air fresheners, just the effects:

32 percent more babies suffered diarrhea in homes where air fresheners were used every day, compared with homes where they were used once a week or less, and they had significantly more earaches in these homes as well

Air fresheners also affected mothers—those who used them daily suffered nearly 10 percent more headaches

Perhaps most surprising is the finding that women who lived in homes with daily air freshener use had a 26 percent increased risk of depression

could the ingredients in them really be all that bad?

California Air Resources Board entitled “Indoor Air Chemistry: Cleaning Agents, Ozone and Toxic Air Contaminants.”

the use of some air fresheners can produce toxic pollutants when used in the presence of ozone (a form of oxygen)

Even minimal ozone concentrations were enough to drive significant indoor chemistry.

chemicals emitted

pollutants of serious health concern are produced