Conventional perfumes, although they smell great, can cause sneezing fits or headaches in some people. Natural Perfume on the other hand, has several great health and environmental benefits.

What is used to make organic scents?

Natural ingredients like essential oils and absolutes are used to make organic perfumes. Some include hand-made tinctures of flowers and/or spices that the perfumer has developed.

What is the difference between natural and synthetic perfumes?

The perfumes you buy at the mall are mass-produced and contain man-made aroma chemicals. For example, when these perfumes say that they contain rose or sandalwood, they actually contain little to no rose or sandalwood at all, but rather aroma compounds, usually made from petrochemicals that can include phthalates.

Synthetic perfumes are usually tested on animals and the phthalates they contain lead to the terrible mistreatment of laboratory animals.

Some organic perfumes are colored. Do they contain dye?

The color in natural scents is all thanks to Mother Nature because of the brightly-colored flowers used in some of them. The perfume takes on the hue of whatever flowers are used to make the perfume.

What are the benefits of using Natural Perfume?

The benefits of using organic scents are many and include:

• Using essential oils to create a fragrance provides physical and emotional healing properties like relaxing, mood-lifting, or energy-enhancing.
• No chemicals, toxins or pesticides that cause skin irritations and damage to the environment are used to grow the ingredients in organic perfumes.
• The petrochemicals used to produce synthetic aromas can cause nausea, lung irritation and migraines.
• Natural perfumes, unlike synthetic products are not tested on animals.
• Using two synthetic products together smells unpleasant. However, depending on your mood, you can wear organic perfumes on their own or mixed, to create a variety of exquisite scents.
• Synthetic scents mask the skin, but organic and natural scents on the other hand, create individual, more personal scents on the body.
• Natural scents contain no chemicals and pesticides that can be absorbed by the skin and into the bloodstream.
• A study conducted in 2010 showed that the average synthetic perfume contains around 14 chemicals that are potentially harmful. According to the law, it is not necessary to declare these harmful chemicals.
• Responsible Natural Perfume brands use no unethical practices when producing their fragrances. The traditional methods used by many of these brands were started as far back as the 17th century.

There is an enormous variety of Natural Perfume available, all of them made from the beautiful, natural ingredients found in nature. In short, there is no need at all to buy the synthetic scents on the market that are filled with chemicals and toxins so harmful to the human body and our already fragile environment.