Car Perfume, Wax: Things To Taken Into Consideration While Using
Carefully check the composition of the perfume
When buying perfume for cars, you need to carefully consider its composition. Priority should be given to perfumes with natural extracts and those with ingredients that are harmful to health should be avoided.
Choose a safe scent
Choosing the scent for your car is very important. The scent will directly affect your travel experience. During the cold season, you should choose car perfumes with warm scents such as cinnamon, coffee, etc. and in the hot season, scents of lemon, apple, mint, etc. should be chosen, not those that have a too strong smell ... as they are more likely to "conflict" with body odor, causing an uncomfortable feeling.
Here are some recommended types of car perfume:
- Cinnamon car perfume: Cinnamon stimulates the brain to help enhance concentration and increase circulation to keep you awake while driving.
- Coffee car perfume: The pleasant and gentle scent of coffee helps you feel energetic and alert while driving, and also has the effect of reducing motion sickness.
- Green tea car perfume: Green tea scent has the ability to effectively eliminate car odors.
- Lemongrass car perfume: Lemongrass scent helps to stimulate the brain and enhance concentration while driving. On the other hand, this scent is also capable of masking the smell of other unpleasant odors in the car. The scent of lemongrass is quite favored by many people.
- Orange/lemon car perfume: Orange/lemon scent brings a pleasant feeling and helps to limit car sickness...
Here are some types of perfume for cars to avoid:
- Car perfumes with jasmine, lavender, and chamomile scents: These odors often make drivers too relaxed, leading to distraction, drowsiness, etc.
- Car perfumes that smell like chocolate, cakes: These smells create a feeling of hunger, easily leading to haste, irritability...
- Car perfumes with the smell of freshly cut grass, pinewood, and field flowers: These are nostalgic odors, distracting drivers from concentration.
In addition, you should choose a car perfume with a sturdy bottle that is difficult to break on impact. Sudden acceleration-deceleration, while the car is moving, might cause the perfume bottle to fall or break. Therefore, priority should be given to car perfumes with shells made of thick, sturdy plastic, glass, etc.
Is it safe to use perfume in the car?
There are many potential health risks
Unlike perfumes for the body that often have natural extracts as the main ingredient, car perfumes are mostly made of artificial flavoring compounds to reduce production costs and therefore they are called synthetic perfumes. Many studies show that more than 95% of chemicals in synthetic car perfumes are derived from petrochemicals such as Benzene derivatives, Phthalates, Aldehyde, Xylene musk...
Benzene is a toxic substance capable of causing cancer, poisoning bones, reducing white blood cells, anemia, affecting the liver and kidneys, increasing the risk of miscarriage… The acceptable level of Benzene is 50 mg. People infected with Benzene will have difficulties in eliminating this poison from their bodies
Phthalates is a substance capable of disrupting hormone activity, causing fetal malformations, reduced sperm count, breast cancer... Xylene is also a banned substance in some countries such as Japan, Germany, and the United States.
Low-quality, cheap car perfumes contain many impurities. If the drivers are exposed to such perfumes for a long time, they might suffer from many side effects such as headache, sore throat, eye pain, sinusitis, chest tightness, asthma…
Risk of fire and explosion due to the high alcohol content
Car perfume in the liquid form usually contains alcohol as a volatile substance. However, some cheap car perfumes have high alcohol levels and exceed safety standards. If the perfume bottle is left in a place under direct sunlight, especially at times when the outdoor temperature is high, there may be a risk of fire and explosion.
08/12/2021