On the positive side is our fascination with the new flameless scented candles that our cats aren't likely to swat and set the house on fire. Flameless candles are available from the Dollar Tree and .99 cent stores but they are the little tiny ones with small wicks and no scent. Now back to our bad news.
There is a more expensive work around and those tree hugging 60's types were right again. We do have a membership to a "Cooperative" store (we aren't stupid) but we don't use it because natural is expensive. It's not easy being "green." "In the study, R. Massoudi Ph.D., and Amid Hamidi Vadeghani, Ph.D., said that that candles made from bee’s wax or soy, although more expensive, apparently are healthier. They do not release potentially harmful amounts of indoor air pollutants while retaining all of the warmth, ambience and fragrance of paraffin candles (which are made from petroleum)."“An occasional paraffin candle and its emissions will not likely affect you,” Hamidi Vadeghani said. “But lighting many paraffin candles every day for years or lighting them frequently in an un-ventilated bathroom around a tub, for example, may cause problems.“ Besides the more serious risks, he also suggested that some people who believe they have an indoor allergy or respiratory irritation may in fact actually be reacting to air pollutants from burning candles."
Thankfully today is the last day of the National Meeting so they'll be no more bad news from the bad news bearers. Information is power but there's also something called information overload when it comes to really bad news saying that everything you do is bad for you.
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