Environmental Sensitivity Page

What Is MCS? (Environmental Illness) 
 
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is basically a subset of Environmental Illness (EI), which is caused by living in a toxic world.  The chemicals that were synthesized after World War II (including, pesticides, synthetic fragrances, cleaning products, detergents, etc.) are mostly "petro-chemicals" (petroleum based) and are quite toxic to humans.  There have been virtually no studies done on the majority of these chemicals to see how they affect humans - the industry just placed the chemicals in the environment with the assumption that they are "safe, till proven toxic", instead of the other way around.  One of the biggest offenders is PERFUME and other scented products.  Did you know that many of the ingredients in your perfume are the exact same ingredients found in GASOLINE??!!  The scary thing is that the perfume industry is NOT REGULATED at all - they can put any number of chemicals in fragrance without revealing what those chemicals are - or how they affect humans.  We humans are all participating in a giant "lab experiment" against our knowledge and against our will, and it's making some of us VERY sick.

Those of us who are becoming chronically ill from these chemicals are similar to the "canaries in the coal mine".  Coal miners would take a canary into the mines with them to warn them when the air became toxic.  They knew that when the canary stopped singing or died, it was time to get out before it affected them as well.  We "human canaries" are here to warn the rest of you that, unless you start making changes and avoid as many toxic chemicals as possible, you too may become very sick.  Non-toxic living is actually much "simpler" and cheaper!