ZUM soaps have a very strong, heavy, pervasive smell. The only solution for this grandma is to start using scent-free laundry detergent and not use the strong-smelling soap for at least 2 days before she visits her son's family.

My brother found he was allergic to scented products, soaps, shampoo and laundry detergent, so guess what, he started buying scent free products. It's not that hard.

Granny has a screw loose.

This is not about "like/dislike"... it's about sick or not. Essential oils cause migraines, allergies, asthma etc. x 100.... And to get rid of it... it is easier with new close, new machines etc... for the clearing will take month/years if succesfull!! But some people don't know they stink... and scented detergent is the worse...

The simplest solutoion would be to get a non-toxic, unscented laundry soap. And it will take quite a while, possibly months, before the scent in the clothes dissipates. It lingers in the closet, the drawers, on the clothes. I have a lovely shirt I was given 2 years ago, and no matter how many times I wash it, it still holds the scent of the original laundry detergent used on it. Scents in detergents, even essential oils, can linger for months, and, as shown by my shirt, years. Many people can get asthma attacks, breathing difficulties, or migraines from what others consider a lovely smell.

I found it ironic how she tried to play into her sister had a health issue so she became more aware to use better products. The first thing you should be eliminating in a health situation is Any scents or dyes from product. They are completely unnecessary. Also if her son had said it was a perfume she was wearing and could she not I'm sure she wouldn't mind skipping that.

Giggling to myself. I can’t use any normal detergent, makes me itch to the point I draw blood. So, yeah, it’s the non-scented, “sensitive” versions I have to use. Patchouli is the most vile aroma I have ever experienced. Confession time: I was very jealous of an older cousin, so one Christmas I bought her patchouli oil. The joke was on me. She loved it.

Speaking as a grandparent, this lady is nuts.

It sounds like she's gone nose-blind. You get used to your own scent, even though others can smell it strongly. I used to share an office with a woman who squirted fresh doses of perfume every half hour because she could no longer smell it on herself. The rest of us could-it was Opium, one of those huge, in your face 1980s scents that most of us got headaches from. This grandma needs to stop being so selfish-inflicting unwanted smells can be intrusive and annoying, it's as bad as watching videos or listening to music online in a public space, another assault on the senses.

I used to work with a woman who you could smell, quite literally, when she walked into a room next to our large studio. And the smell lingered for HOURS. Gag-inducing to be in a small room with her, or if she entered your desk area.

YTA, granny. They're not "hurting you", you're intentionally making their home smell to make yourself the centre of attention and their lives. Another stinking narcissist.

It “has no harsh chemicals “ but is heavily fragranced and uses essential oils, which can be irritating and some are even toxic. Yeah sounds great.

Strangers stop outside her house on laundry day?? Holy fk! Just how much is she using??? Fragrance sensitivity is a real issue for many, there's a specific headache and face ache that goes with it and I have to be so careful because of this for myself. I strongly think that the grandma is noseblind as well as playing the martyr. I feel sorry for how the family have proceeded to address this but she doesn't sound in the least bit interested in learning. There are so many different eco friendly, chemical friendly and fragrance friendly laundry washes out there. I use the laundry egg. Grandma seriously needs to be reeducated in fragrance sensitivity and her nose blind condition 😒

I'm so allergic to scented anything and laundry soap is the worst. It coats your clothes in wax to make the smell stay longer and it's a nightmare. My family is well versed in my allergy and to this day some of them still smell to high heavens and don't have the slightest idea.

People are missing the mark a ,little here. She offered to use different products when she visits them abandoned they said it wasn't enough. What WOULD be enough?

I'm EXTREMELY scent sensative and I've said it a million times CLEAN SHOULDN"T HAVE A SCENT, especially not one so strong it stays around for days.

Some older people just don't have a decent sense of smell anymore. I brought home a throw blanket I had left at my mom's and she washed it for me. The next day, my husband said when he came to bed, it felt like he was getting punched in the face with a floral stench. He thought I fabreezed the pillows or something. So I have to wash the blanket my mom just washed so his eyes don't water from the smell.

Mam, ,Zum makes a lavender laundry soap that is subtle, also sweet orange. They also make an unscented laundry soap. As an avid Zum user, I am aware at how overpowering it can be to other people. If you are using any of the Patchouli scents, you should switch to a milder scent.

While the furniture is a concern a greater issue is the effect the hormone disruptors in essential oils have on their baby. Those hormone disruptors can cause young boys to develop breasts(gynecomastia) and young girls to premature puberty(thelarche). They could cause asthma in that child. "Various studies, conducted since 2007, have reported a total of eight boys with prepubertal gynaecomastia and four girls with premature thelarche following exposure to lavender and/or tree tea oil. All patients experienced regression of the breast tissue after they stopped using these oils.Aug 31, 2023" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10769481/#:~:text=Various%20studies%2C%20conducted%20since%202007,they%20stopped%20using%20these%20oils.

I've been chemically sensitive since a sick house incident 28 years ago. In the case of fragrance, while some people think problems like mine could be sensitization to the (usually petrochemical) solvents used to disperse the fragrance into the air (or cyclodextrins or other fancy chemistry to disperse it in water), I think my reaction is primarily an adverse d**g reaction to the "enhancer" additives in fragrance, which (analogous to monosodium glutamate for taste) simply make fragrance smell "more", which in the end means amplifying the nervous system's signals from the smell sensors locally. That local action works just fine in me, just like MSG does. It's that once those act-on-nervous-system molecules get past their target, the body has to manage them so they don't affect other parts of the body. My body stopped being able to do that, suddenly, 28 years ago. Fragrance like that can get stuck in something pretty much forever...dispensed slowly forever.

Sensory hypersensitivity is a real thing and can be more common in children since senses can dull with age. When I was a kid/teenager, I couldn't stand to be in my grandmother's house for more than 10-15 minutes because she had smoked in that house for 60 years. I didn't matter that she wasn't actively smoking in that minute, the smell gave me migraines. My mom, who never smoked a day in her life, but grew up with that scent couldn't smell anything.

I’m not even scent-sensitive and this would drive me nuts.

People use too much detergents in general. I'm oversensitive to smells so it's always a problem when someone uses too much, but also people have no common sense when it comes to using perfume. It's as if they marked the territory around them, peeing everywhere, dominating the area. Stop that. Your scent should be only smelled from a very close distance!

Yta. People just don't understand that some smells can bother someone with asthma or allergies. Just because it has essential oils and supposedly no chemicals doesn't mean People aren't bothered by it. I'm very sensitive to smells. I have a vendor in my shop that I've explained I can't have the pkugin air freshners pluggednin she tries to be sneaky thinking 8 can't really smell it but I can. Having my chest hurt and trouble breathing for a couple of hours because you won't come in but every 3 months to deal with your clothes. Is your problem not mine. She claims she smells mold (very old building). Which I am very sensitive to and I have no problems because there is no mold smell. It would act up my asthma if it did. And nobody else smells it. You just can't wash one thing differently and think the smell won't be there. If you want to see your granddaughter make a complete change with your laundry and body soap

I've told a colleague she was taking my breath away, literally. She stopped wearing that perfume for two days but it was her gavorite scent (that she re applied every hour, yeah...) and I had to live with it. She also accused me of being ill tempered and I tried in vain to explain that she wearing heavy perfumes did not help. I do.have asthma but unfortunately, I don't "wheez" unless it is very vety bad already and that makes it difficult to convince people (including doctors).

There is a reason I buy unscented laundry soap.

I used to work in a retail store that sold this brand of cleaning and personal care products. I thought they were overpowering.

Not sure where commenters are reading "patchouli", but I believe Zum comes in more than one scent. However, she could try Dreft or Ivory Snow, they're both intended for use with baby clothes and are very mild. Or, look for an unscented organic soap, they do make fragrance-free ones.

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