Essential Oils Question

Yvonne G

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My daughter gave me an oil diffuser a couple years ago for Christmas. It had a very pleasant scent. I used it for a year or so in my living room (until the oils were all absorbed and diffused) and I have baby tortoise habitats right in the next room during the winter. I never noticed anything with any of the baby tortoises. I think the oils were just some sort of a scented product, and probably not "essential" oils.
 

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I just saw that you lost your tortoise AFTER posting that last comment. I'm sorry you lost your tortoise, I'm sorry that I'm making jokes two posts after you said that, and I'm sorry I didn't check the whole thread before posting another reply.
 
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I grew up in the Haight Ashbury during the 60's, so from life experience I speak. That's all BS. The best air is clean air, free of any volatile organic compounds.

If it makes you feel something you like then that is all the justification you need. But breathing anything but clean air is not healthful.


I was already an adult in the 60's, and most of that organic or essential oils is crap. And it WILL kill small house birds, parakeets and canaries. So will incense.......move to Oregon and get MM for your pain. It works. And doesn't bother the torts or the birds.......o_O
 

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Your goal is to inhale vitamin C? I'd like to see the science on that. Many many indoor environment people, (those that study work places, hospitals and other places where we are in an enclosed space ourselves) urge people to not use any of the room 'odor' things as we already breath way to much stuff in the air in a closed room. My dentist even suggests rinsing of a toothbrush with hydrogen peroxide if it's stored in the bathroom because every time you flush you make air born your own feces.
I was just thinking of asking my dentist if it was safe to clean my toothbrush daily in hydrogen peroxide. I guess this answers that question.
 
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But the idea that I'm 70 and have been brushing my teeth with airborne poop??? Makes me wanna put a cork in it.
 

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But the idea that I'm 70 and have been brushing my teeth with airborne poop??? Makes me wanna put a cork in it.
Pretty gross, right? When I was in science class as a child, I heard that when you smell something it is because tiny particles of it are entering your nose. I kept my hand over my nose for a week after that!
 
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Maggie Cummings

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So now you're saying, it's not only going in my mouth via brushing, but breathing is putting poop into my lungs as well. Thank you so much for that visual and mental image. I'm gonna eat a bunch of cheese and stay constipated until I die.....ewwww
 

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well I'm a germaphobe so now I gotta go kill myself. :)
 

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I just saw that you lost your tortoise AFTER posting that last comment. I'm sorry you lost your tortoise, I'm sorry that I'm making jokes two posts after you said that, and I'm sorry I didn't check the whole thread before posting another reply.

O! Thank you for being so sensitive!! :<3:
I do not take offense at all!
I completely understand how tough it can be to see all that is posted before replying.
I have done it many times!!
 
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