Scenthusiasm: SUSTAINABLE PERFUMERY MATERIALS - IT'S COMPLICATED

In which we explore why it's not good enough to ask if something is 100% natural and assume that this is going to make it sustainable.

[@Betmas2]

Thank you for this! Much needed info about synthetics.

[@SarahMcCartney4160]

You're welcome. It's important to me to try to find these things out.

[@GohAhweh]

🌱Another informative session. Thank you for introducing me to a ML Ramnarain. I will soon join your other platform. ✨️🩵✨️

[@alokpandey9532]

Very good discussion. Also, Cypriol oil is from the root of the grass and it has black nutty lumps. Grows like a weed in swampy areas. Buffaloes love it.

[@SarahMcCartney4160]

Thank you.

[@marcescalonagaba1978]

I’ve tended to think that sustainability in fragrance materials-especially biodegradability-is significant only when dealing with tons and tons of detergent products and industrial cleansers and such. Please enlighten me if I’m wrong? My sense is that anyone who cares that deeply about it should lobby against production of non-biodegradable products (and perhaps some already do) and yet aren’t some of those chemicals byproducts of some other process, and so it’s a question of whether they’ll be harnessed or just dumped somewhere. Agh, the subject really is too complex, and caring about sustainability I feel must be radical, or else it’s just a marketing tool.

[@SarahMcCartney4160]

I think the biggest problem is when people decide it's too complicated, or that their actions are not significant. How are you doing to lobby? Use less detergent, wash your clothes less often, buy biodegradable detergent. Yell about it.

[@marcescalonagaba1978]

@@SarahMcCartney4160 I just feel that if science has established that something is harmful then it’s fundamentally unethical to keep its production legal.

[@SarahMcCartney4160]

@@marcescalonagaba1978 Read Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth. With the majority of materials it's like poisons, it's all about the amount, and the balance. Humans are harmful to the planet. Cars are worse than washing powder. Let's ban cars. They are fundamentally unethical, and yet they are also useful, as is washing powder. If we stay in the "doughnut" we are good. It's complicated.