Preservative free products can be dangerous! Episode 91

Perfume for poop I never realized how important it is to have a good perfume for poop. We really take a lot of things for granted living in a first world country and one of them is proper sanitation. A lot of places lack proper plumbing and instead use latrines or outdoor toilets. That’s not as much fun as it sounds like because sometimes the stench in these latrines becomes so great the people stop using them and just go outside. When that happens the groundwater can become contaminated which leads to the spread of all sorts of illnesses. This is not a trivial problem – it affects about 2.5 billion people across the world. And that’s where cosmetic science comes in. Scientists at Firmenich, which is one of the largest fragrance companies in the world, are working in India, Kenya, and south Africa to help solve this problem by analyzing the scent of these outdoor toilets. They’re using a technique called “headspace analysis” where they basically measure what’s in the gas with in the room. That’s also funny because in the Navy toilets are called “the head.” They chemically analyze the odors in the latrine to determine which are the most offending components which “the scientists then confirm by smelling.” How would you like to have that job? Once the fragrance chemists understand the exact nature of the odorants they can create scents that counteract the bad smells. If they can do that and encourage ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Source Type: blogs