Febreze Plug: The Only Disclosed Ingredient Is ‘Fragrances’, for a Device Running in Your Home 24/7
One word on the label. No carrier solvent named. No preservative. No fragrance components. A continuously operating device with the most opaque disclosure reviewed.
Febreze Plug Air Freshener lists a single disclosed ingredient on its P&G SmartLabel: Fragrances. That is the complete ingredient list for a continuously-operating device delivering heated aroma chemicals into enclosed indoor air around the clock. Steinemann (2017) found a chamber study where plug-in air freshener use drove formaldehyde to 28.2 μg/m³, from secondary reactions between fragrance terpenes and indoor ozone. In the EU, 82 fragrance allergens above threshold must be individually named on the label. In the US, all of that, solvents, preservatives, fragrance chemicals, potential phthalate fixatives, is permissibly hidden behind one word. The Febreze Plug is the extreme edge of the fragrance disclosure gap in consumer products.
The label, flagged
Source: P&G SmartLabel UPC 00037000472308 (Febreze Plug Fade Defy Fresh-Spiced Apple). View label. Tap any flagged ingredient for the evidence.
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