Stinky candles
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summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Well I thought I'd give it a sniff in Aldi to see what all the fuss was about but the shelf was bare 
Worst of the lot are incense sticks. I can't stand them.
You are incensed by them ?
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
And they are vile too, especially when one of the damn three runs out quicker ( HOW) and it's not balanced . Asaargh
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
Used chip fat as the air freshener aroma surely....
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
I like the smell of swarfega if they did swarfega candles I might by one
Levo-Lon
Guru
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
I am not going to do a google images search...
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
They do McCoys crisps incense? Incredible.
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Love candles and love incense sticks which I happened to stock up on yesterday.
Globalti
Legendary Member
There's no health risk. The raw materials used in the perfumes are so powerful that your nose detects the molecules floating around in the atmosphere at incredibly low concentrations and the perfume industry is absolutely bound up now by restrictions on the raw materials allowed and the dosages in the product.
We now employ no fewer than four chemistry graduates on safety compliance. The perfume industry is losing good and interesting raw materials by the week, which is why perfumes smell so boring and samey. There is never any evidence that material X has caused irritation or cancer when used at 0.2% in a compound which is then dosed in an E de T at 7%, all that has happened is that some chemist in Brussells has fed a rat with the chemical and the poor creature has croaked. There will always be one individual in a million who is sensitive to material X but generally, modern perfumes are safe and innocuous. Natural essential oils are often more harmful - read up on bergamot oil for example.
When you burn a perfumed candle the perfume emanates from the pool of molten wax and is carried by the convection current into the room. A guttering candle flame spreads unburned hydrocarbons in the form of small soot particles, which are nasty and very carcinogenic as they settle deep in the lungs.
We now employ no fewer than four chemistry graduates on safety compliance. The perfume industry is losing good and interesting raw materials by the week, which is why perfumes smell so boring and samey. There is never any evidence that material X has caused irritation or cancer when used at 0.2% in a compound which is then dosed in an E de T at 7%, all that has happened is that some chemist in Brussells has fed a rat with the chemical and the poor creature has croaked. There will always be one individual in a million who is sensitive to material X but generally, modern perfumes are safe and innocuous. Natural essential oils are often more harmful - read up on bergamot oil for example.
When you burn a perfumed candle the perfume emanates from the pool of molten wax and is carried by the convection current into the room. A guttering candle flame spreads unburned hydrocarbons in the form of small soot particles, which are nasty and very carcinogenic as they settle deep in the lungs.
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