Many people have used them at least once, those car air fresheners that dangle from your rear view mirror, but researchers have found chemicals used in air fresheners can also be bad for your health.
Because many of the car air fresheners are made overseas, it is hard for consumers to tell exactly what is in them, but anecdotal evidence indicates, they can lead to respiratory irritation. They are also illegal in the state of New York.
Jim Diavastes was stunned to find his car air freshener had melted a control knob on the dashboard of his minivan, leading him to suspect some hazardous substance might be in the cardboard ornament, “some chemical inside this air freshener doesn’t like plastic.”
Research on the Internet turned up other instances of damage from air fresheners in contact with car interiors, and it turns out many of the fragrance oils used for the cardboard air fresheners–and the liquid varieties–are derived from petroleum.
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