Rob: My dear lady, did you know the perfume you're wearing has
acetone in it? It's to keep it soluble, you see.
Lady: How on earth and why would you know that?
Rob: Well, I know this because I'm reacting to it.
Lady: You are reacting to my perfume? Sure you are. I think you're whacked.
Rob: I had a chemical exposure accident a few years back. Hey, besides being
flammable and a degreaser, that stuff can also leave you with central
nervous system damage and give you MCS like me. Acetone is one of the
chemicals that made me sick. I can feel it a long ways away. So yes,
your perfume is killing me.
Lady: I like my perfume thank you. if you don't then just stay away.
Rob: Oh, and that tingling feeling you get when you dab the stuff on is just
the acetone melting some of the body fats in you're skin. Degreasing it's
called.
Lady: I like that tingling feeling,. It feels clean and if it melts fat,
then I'm into it.
Rob: I hear you. It's just that you need that fat to protect you from the
sun. The melanoma probably won't show up for years. Nothing a good surgeon
and radiation treatments can't fix.
Lady: You are whacked; they wouldn't let companies sell things like that.
Rob: The government? Perfume companies all have secret recipes. Kind of like
that chicken place, except in this case it's ten herbs and solvents. Nobody
regulates that.
Lady: Solvents? Can you prove that?
Rob: Ever left the lid off a bottle of perfume? Come back a day or two later
and there is nothing left but some goop on the bottom? The goop is the
perfume and the only thing that can evaporate that fast is a VOC.
Lady: I've seen that, but it doesn't prove anything.
Rob: Ever spilled perfume on a counter top or on your nail polish?
It will remove the finish from the counter and wash off the polish.
This stuff has many of the same solvents that are in gasoline. If
you had enough, your perfume would be great for cleaning engine
parts.
Lady: Gasoline!
Rob. Yes well, you are wearing that stuff not me, and I think I'll move
along before you light that cigarette thank you.
Lady: Hey! What is MCS, anyways?