Making sense of scents, or not...
My mother loved her smell good lotions and potions! She was known for pillow cases and clothing that always smelled of or “like” her. It was a pleasant thing. Something I will always remember with good thoughts.
Alas as most of us now know, many of those perfumy lotions and potions are tainted with phthalates to make the fragrances last. Chemicals…ewww and yuck!
I’ve worked hard to rid my world of all things containing those chemicals. Ridding my world of products containing these chemicals didn’t mean I stopped enjoying the smell of good fragrance. I have a very keen sniffer. This can be a blessing and a curse but I am actually proud to claim it. When embracing a chemical free life we have to work through the “life we once knew” and adapt. I did quite well for years but was never far from the temptation toward those glorious scents of flowers and spices in my personal spaces. Essential Oils are always a wonderful and available option but I for one am not good a repetitive anything, application included. I knew I would remain in a “chemical free” state but always morn for those scents that lingered so to catch the slightest whiff when you weren’t expecting it. And I also appreciate the smell of good ole nature!
As shepherds and makers of wool products, more specifically our wool dryer balls we were proud to offer a toxic free laundry option that was 100% chemical free, 100% naturally grown fiber, 100% humanely raised and harvested and honestly breaks all standards for sustainability. SIDENOTE: Several years ago WholeFoods introduced a grading system. Every single vendor had to go through a third party for quality standards vetting…it was arduous and quite frankly expensive but we did it…
Transparent & Sustainable
not all wool dryer balls are created equal. Do your research and buy the best!
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Stoney Mountain Farm was honored with the highest (green) ranking for being 100% transparent and sustainable! Although after the Amazon purchase of Wholefoods our products are no longer in their stores we sure earned the shelf space at the time!
Forgive me for having changed subjects a bit. My plan was to share the feedback we get from all of our customers that made the switch to our dryer balls, regarding scent…
Many said after making the switch, I don’t miss those heavy smells. Some said, why don’t folks recognize and choose the smell of fresh air?
I get it. Many scents don’t smell of ‘nature’. Some are so heavy and honestly can be quite offensive. I recall being out for a run, imagine my visual in this farming community, huge pastures as far as the eye can see yet I get a whiff of BOUNCE, argh…nothing natural about it! Or we’ve all had those moments in public when someone passes and the smell literally HITS you it’s so heavy. No one that has left the chemical laden products world wants anything to do with those moments. Heck, I have one customer that buys our product to give to anyone new in her neighborhood just to help assure she isn’t HIT with a waft of that awful smell of dryer sheets.
So, how did I find my “scents about me”? I literally found out about phthalate free fragrance options and liked them so much in my personal spaces that I decided to add them to our product line! Believe me these have been awhile in the making. I researched and researched for “fresh” “clean” pleasing scents, knowing that is certainly subjective.
I, once again, enjoy the addition of fragrance on my pillow cases and remembering my momma ❤️