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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe this has been asked or answered upthread, but all of you who are "allergic" to perfume/fragrance, WHAT is it that you are allergic too?

It's not like all the perfumes consist of the same ingredients.[/quote]

It’s hard to know unless you’ve done extensive testing.  I’ve done patch testing for other allergens and I have a strong allergy to a certain preservative used in a lot of cosmetics—but that only bothers me if I personally use it.  But it was extensive testing to identify that.  I posted up thread the smells in shampoo and conditioners or soaps don’t typically bother me, so I suspect it is a stabilizing agent or preservative in the perfumes, but I couldn’t identify the actual chemical without a lot of testing which it’s not really worth doing because it’s not like I can go around the world asking people to use X brands of perfume and not Y brands.  With the preservative I know about, it’s in about 95% of shampoos so I assume that it’s likely to be a similar problem.  
Fwiw, I’m really not a hypochondriac—I promise!  I’m otherwise very healthy, eat gluten and dairy, etc.  I do have a lot of allergy triggers for which I take daily medication, but the perfume seems to overwhelm my medication.  I actually would love a way to test wheyher the people who swear they only wear a subtle amount are right!  If only there was an anonymous way.[/quote]

Yep it is really really hard to find out what specific chemical you are allergic to if you have an allergy like that. Most allergist won’t even try testing, they just tell you to avoid which like, easier said than done. [/quote]

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