Our Mission
The Fragrance Free Coalition is committed to creating healthier, more accessible environments where individuals can live, work, and thrive without exposure to harmful fragrance-related toxins. We address the barriers posed by fragrance ingredients—such as allergens, irritants, sensitizers, and pollutants—that compromise air quality and impair accessibility to and within healthcare facilities, schools, workplaces, housing, and public spaces. Through education and policy change, we aim to raise awareness about the dangers of fragranced products and drive systemic change to alleviate suffering, protect public health, and ensure equal access for everyone.
Our Vision
The Fragrance Free Coalition envisions a future free of fragrance pollution, where fragrance-free public spaces are the norm. In this future, children can safely learn in scent-free schools, patients can breathe healthier air during a hospital or nursing home stay, and growing families and pets have pollution-free homes to thrive in.
The Fragrance Free Coalition is a group of volunteers.
The need for fragrance-free healthcare, schools, and public spaces becomes clear when reviewing the studies about asthma, migraines, sinusitis, airborne contact dermatitis, eczema, autism and more.
Because so many people are having detrimental health reactions to petrochemicals in fragrance, the use of fragranced, scented and perfumed products in public spaces is creating access barriers to healthcare, schools, businesses.
The EPA estimates indoor air is 2 to 5 times more polluted than outdoor air (sometimes up to 100 times more polluted)!
Synthetic fragrance chemicals are shown to:
1. Increase VOC's.
2. Create secondary pollutants such as formaldehyde.
3. Have been shown to increase indoor particulate matter.
4. Have had "known skin sensitizers" and "known allergens" in their fragrances for decades.
All of these qualify as indoor air pollution.
The FDA places safety responsibility of products on the manufacturer (meaning, it is up to the company creating the product to deem the chemicals they use in their products as safe, with no regard to secondary air pollution, sensitizers, allergens or amount).
Because fragrance is considered a "trade secret", its ingredients do not have to be revealed, many companies purchase fragrance and put it in their products, having no idea which of the up to nearly 4,000 undisclosed chemicals were used.
The following is a quote from the FDA:
"The law does not require FDA approval before they go on the market... under U.S. regulations, fragrance and flavor ingredients can be listed simply as “Fragrance” or “Flavor.”
Please review the interactive poster available on the home page.
The easiest way to create healthier air is to not pollute it with petrochemical fragrances nor essential oils because essential oils also have many of the same chemicals as their synthetic counterparts and also create air pollution (such as secondary air pollutants).
Purchasing fragrance-free cleaning and laundry products, fragrance-free deodorants, soaps, hand sanitizers and lotions, as well as eliminating air ‘fresheners’ are easy changes with major impact on indoor air quality.
We care deeply about the health of humanity, our pets, the planet, and ourselves.
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