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Oct 13, 2024 8 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Look at your deodorant while putting it on your armpit tomorrow morning.

Look at your ozone-producing ionizing air cleaner and photocopier when you go into the office.

They combine to produce
Ultra Fine Particles that you inhale, and then they migrate to every organ.

🧵 Perfume spray.
Man spraying on deodorant.
Right off the bat? The non-ozone producing #corsirosenthalbox, does remove UFPs AND volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

So should any HEPA.

BUT.

You will inhale them because your body has a thermal plume from your body.

Sorry for the long setup. You need to read this,
but I did not want to be click-baity.

So, deodorant, hand lotion, body spray, perfume, spray shampoo - and most likely anything that has a fragrance produces VOCs.

"Monoterpenes, in particular, are known to react with ozone inside, forming secondary organic aerosols (SOAs)." Personal hygiene products, including roll-on deodorant, hand lotion, body spray, perfume and spray shampoo, contain an amalgamation of over 200 volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which then react with ozone in the air to form other potentially dangerous chemicals, according to a new paper in the journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
Personal care products contain a large cocktail of VOCs, including monoterpenes, acetaldehyde, siloxanes, alcohols, and alkanes.  perfume spraying Stock image of a person spraying perfume. Personal care products like perfume, hair spray and hand lotion can release volatile chemicals that may react with ozone to other compounds.
Your fragrant ________ (insert Old Spice, Axe Body Spray, No. 5 Chanel, etc,), produces VOCs. They hit ozone and react. Turn into aerosols.

That clump up into UFPs. And your thermal body plume carries up for you to breathe them in.

Size illustration below. When using the PCPs in the presence of indoor ozone, these reactive VOCs underwent oxidation reactions to form a variety of gas-phase oxidized vapors and led to rapid new particle formation (NPF) events with particle growth rates up to ten times higher than outdoor atmospheric NPF events," the researchers wrote.
SARSCOV2 virus is 100 nm.
Is it me, Mr. Clean Air, just freaking out?

You judge - here are the scientists.

It IS difficult to hear that.

Source
newsweek.com/volatile-chemi…

Study
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Supplemental
pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1…

But it has to hit ozone, right? Where does THAT come from? "I know this is difficult to hear, but we're going to have to reduce our reliance on these products, or if possible, replace them with more natural alternatives that contain fragrant compounds with low chemical reactivity," Licina said. "Another helpful measure would be to raise awareness of these issues among medical professionals and staff working with vulnerable groups, such as children and the elderly."
Some definitely comes from outside. But that is short-lived, albeit, if it's always coming in ?

But ionizing air cleaners produce a ton of ozone - whether in-duct or portable air cleaners.

I know there will be a ton of questions. I think
. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…Highlighting ionizing air cleaners because they produce ozone.
The average outdoor ozone concentration in a day tended to be low in the morning and at night and high at noon. During the year, it tended to be high in spring and summer and low in autumn and winter. The half-life was usually between 7 and 10 min for ozone indoors, which has a relationship with surface removal rate and air exchange rate. Fadeyi [19] proposed that the contribution of ozone air purification equipment with a high ozone emission rate to indoor concentration could easily exceed that of outdoor ozone.
the most common ones will be....

How to tell if my product has monoterpenes? If it has a fragrance, it probably does.

How to tell how much ozone is there?

They sell Ozone Detectors on Amazon.

But, cheap may not be best.

Here's a good article, but

smartairfilters.com/en/blog/are-lo…
maybe
@akm5376 @Poppendieck @kate_cole_ @sri_srikrishna @marwa_zaatari @JimRosenthal4

know of any good, but cheap ozone detectors? Thank you either way!

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NPR noticed as well. Image
This is crazy. Image
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