Did you know that cooking with teflon pans can cause your pet birds to die? The teflon puts something into the air that is toxic to birds such as parakeets, especially if the pan is overheated or heated dry. So, not sure that using birds for a study on aromatic effects as an indicator of human affect is valid.ozij wrote:Since when is the physiology of cats an birds considered the equivalent of human physiology?
You'll notice, it was the bird that died of respiratory failure, and not the human who applied the oil. Those links are irrelevant to the question of how much of Pur-Sleep's oils enters the lungs when used as instructed, and what happens to human beings once those oils have entered their lungs int that amount.
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SAG's discussion of issues possible after volatile oils are rubbed on the skin is not really valid either, IMO. If you're rubbing it on the skin to cause those type of effect, you are probably using more than a few drops. One or two drops on a diffuser that is not only diffusing through your air intake, but also around the rest of the room.....minimal exposure..probably less than what that Glade air freshener is putting out in the room....
Bottom line, if you're worried about it...don't use it. If not, go ahead, but use common sense.
