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Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is something that you don’t want to skimp on, nor fall prey to companies that try to convince you that artificial scents are needed in your home, office, everywhere.

Why should you use chemicals to cover up an odor you don’t like? Find the source of the odor, remediate it and open windows to allow fresh air to come in. You want a ‘fragrance’, boil some spices and allow them to permeate your home.

In an office, get a soup to nuts HVAC work up and address the problem.

In casinos, use an enzyme based product that destroys the second hand smoke and increase the frequency/duration of your HVAC.

Air freshener companies use ‘key’ words/phrases for marketing purposes, to entice the public to purchase their product. Use of ‘memories’ of vacations, cooking, nature etc. that their product is supposed to ‘recall’. Terms such as ‘lemon, fruity, woodsy, floral’ etc., these scents are primarily manufactured in a lab.

You will notice that ‘rarely’ are the full complement of chemicals in a product disclosed, predominately you will notice the generic reference to ‘fragrance’. Scent Air happened to disclose the various chemicals in their commercial fragrance ‘Lemon Clean’, SDS as required by OSHA because of it being used by employees.

SDS/MSDS stands for Safety Data Sheet or Material Safety Data Sheet, think of it as a ‘biography’ of a product and or chemical. As each chemical is assigned a CAS No., which stands for Chemical Abstract Service, think of it as that chemical’s unique social security number.

Scent Air had three requests for copies of their SDS, a commercial customer, a medical doctor and a potential customer and these requests have fallen on blind eyes. While their own website refers you to their ‘regulatory’ department for said request.

Given what we have discovered/uncovered about Scent Air either they should post on their website EVERY SDS for the products they are selling. Or fully disclose the known hazards associated with their chemical ingredients.

The public is not privy to the chemicals/ingredients used in air freshening products. Scent Air’s disclosure of ‘fragrance chemical materials’, is basically a litany of dermal, ocular, respiratory irritants, a few that have some degree of sensitizers, irritants, carcinogenicity, endocrine disruptor, reproductive toxicity, mutagenic effects. Notations such as: ‘This chemical is considered hazardous by the 2012 OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (29 CFR 1910.1200)’, that numerous amounts of the chemicals they listed, didn’t disclose what other INDEPENDENT MSDS/SDS for the same CAS No., disclosed.

Since Scent Air sells internationally, its common knowledge that the UK has more stringent regulations regarding fragrance ingredients. Scent Air’s website references ‘UK’ but, their URL utilizes ‘GB’. They have the link to the US store for those in the UK/GB to order from.

2952 Lemon Clean ScentAir is the provided SDS by Scent Air to one of their commercial customers. The public walking into this property is hit with this chemical ‘soup’, thru their HVAC system, that is supposedly dispersing Lemon Clean via Scent Air’s ‘Dry Technology’. Upon information and belief as provided by Scent Air’s own employee, the liquid is ‘captured’ by a ‘fabric/felt’, so that the ‘oil’ doesn’t go into the ‘air’ only the fragrance.

The ‘statements’ on their website versus reality:

“Our fragrances do NOT contain any components found to be carcinogenic per the following Regulatory bodies:  

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)3  

Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA)4”

Their intentional omission regarding CA Proposition 65-Carcinogens List, by referencing only ‘Regulatory Bodies’ not state agencies. Yet, Section 15.3, cites chemicals that are listed as harmful/hazardous by numerous US State Regulatory Agencies, as referenced on either your SDS or independent MSDS/SDS:

Your SDS cites Myrcene as being on the California Prop 65-Carcinogens List “YES”, which is only discovered thru Scent Air’s SDS. Along with on independent MSDS/SDS it is listed as under carcinogens, Category 2, OSHA, IARC-2B. Since they are selling nationally, those potential customers should be informed of this classification.

You have to be VERY diligent when reading labels, as they use ‘buzz’ words that allude to issues that you might be concerned with. For example, they will use the statement ‘

“Fragrance Safety”; citing: “ScentAir fragrances do not contain any toxins, known carcinogens or respiratory allergens.”

The deliberate use of the term ‘allergens, while neglecting the numerous irritants and sensitizers, as no ‘normal’ person would purchase a product that lists multiple ingredients that will create discomfort or harm…would you?  Would these classifications entice you to purchase this and have it permeate your indoor environment? Would you want to work in an environment such as this, yet, hotel and casino workers in Las Vegas are being exposed 24/7/365. Because most hotel and or casino properties aren’t trained in basic chemistry and fall prey to deceptive marketing claims such as Scent Air.

Harvard Medical School research physician summarized/disclosed Scent Air’s ‘Lemon Clean’; what Scent Air lists versus what independent MSDS/SDS produce for the same disclosed chemicals in the product.