Fragrance-free products are often hard to find in conventional stores. It is easiest to find fragrance-free, all natural products at a natural foods store (like Whole Foods or Wild Oats).
Fragrance free products can also be ordered from:
Needs (800-643-1380)
Allen's Naturally (800-352-8971)
Green Mountain Soap (excellent soap, also available at Needs and The Living Source)
Refreshingly Free
Dakota Free Products (has baby products too)
AlerG
The Chemically Sensitive Living Store
California Baby (has a multi-purpose shampoo/body wash)
Sungold Soap
The Living Source (254) 776-4878 or (800) 662-8787
Gaiam
Sample Gift Packs of fragrance free products are a good way to get started. Look at these from Magick Botanicals and Druide Labs, and visit the Sample Page at Refreshingly Free.
If you buy products labeled FRAGRANCE FREE from a natural food store that are not listed below, they will probably be safe. Most of these products can also be ordered from the distributors listed above.
SOAPS
Dr. Bronner's Soap -- unscented
Kiss My Face ORIGINAL Olive Oil Soap (green label -- others contain fragrance)
Green Mountain Soap
SHAMPOOS
Dr Bronner's Soap (liquid unscented)
Lagona Free
Pure Essentials Fragrance Free Shampoo
Magick Botanicals Fragrance Free Shampoo
Thom's Unscented Shampoo
California Baby Sensitive Shampoo and Body Wash
Nature's Gate Organics Soy Fragrance Free
LOTIONS/MOISTURIZERS
Nature's Gate Fragrance-Free Moisturizing Lotion
Alba Botanicals Fragrance Free Lotion
Olive Oil, or any vegetable oil
DEODORANTS
Pure & Basic Green Tea Unscented Deodorant Stick
baking soda
Unscented Deodorant Crystals
LAUNDRY DETERGENTS
Borax
Vinegar & baking soda (an excellent deodorizer as well)
Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda
Plain baking soda
Seventh Generation Free & Clear (without dyes and fragrances - NOT the regular Seventh Generation)
HAIR PRODUCTS
Dissolve one teaspoon of gelatin in a cup of warm water and keep refrigerated for homemade hair gel. Or, melt together beeswax and olive oil, castor oil, lanolin or almond oil to create a thicker, wax-like pomade (add cocoa butter and use lanolin or almond oil to give it a faint chocolate smell). Open up a vitamin E capsule and squeeze oil into mix to help preserve.
Autumn Harp's Un-Petroleum Jelly
Magick Botanicals hair gel
Naturade AloeVera 80 Fragrance Free Styling Spray
SUNSCREEN
*Almost all natural sunscreeens, even when labeled "fragrance free," contain chemicals that can potentially irritate the chemically sensitive. I have only found one that I would fully recommend:
California Baby Sunblock or Sunscreen No Fragrance
INSECT REPELLENTS (DEET, ODOR, AND FRAGRANCE FREE)
Bite Away Insect Repellent
Solar Mosquito Guard
(both available from Gaiam)
Or: soak 3-4 peeled/scored garlic cloves in 1 cup boiling water, then add 1 Tbs basil leaves and let steep for an hour. Strain, then pour liquid in a spray bottle and refrigerate: spray on skin before going out (this one does have an odor)
By Peggy Munson. This article may be reprinted and distributed freely.
*Means basically: all natural, with NO synthetic fragrances and NO scented essential oils
