Shower gel smells like turpentine?

[TonyRPH]

Well, it smells like a combination of paint and turpentine actually.

I've actually noticed this with a number of so called 'care' products ranging from hand wash, to washing up liquid.

Is this just me, or has anyone else noticed this? If so, why does it smell like turpentine?

This particular product is:

"Soap-free cleanser with Community Fair Trade virgin coconut oil from Samoa"

And contains:

Coco-Glucoside
Sodium Chloride
Acrylates/C10-30
Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
Cocos Nucifera Oil/Cocos Nicifera(Coconut) Oil,
Glycine Soja Oil/Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil
Acrylates/Steareth-20 Methacrylate Copolymer
Glycerin
Sodium Cocoamphoacetate
Parfum/Fragrance
Myristamidopropyl PG-Dimonium Chloride Phosphate
Sodium Hydroxide
p-Anisic Acid
Disodium EDTA
Benzyl Benzoate
Tocopherol
Coumarin
Denatonium Benzoate
Citric Acid

[Simpo Two]

Could this be a change in the way your schnozz is operating?

[TonyRPH]

It could be.. however nearly everything else still smells like it used to!

The products I refer to above are largely so called 'beauty' products used by my o/h.

There was one particular product, the ingredients of which I looked up and Wikipedia stated that at least two were on a banned list in the USA.

Given that these are supposed to be natural products, the list of ingredients are quite amazing.

[Simpo Two]

I can taste aspartame in drinks and find any drink with aspartame in it quite unpleasant. I also recall from my biology O-level days that there's a chemical which only some people can taste - it's purely genetic, like tongue-rolling. So maybe one of those chemicals is a 'new' one and is pinging your smell receptors unusually.

Stick to soap!

[TonyRPH]

Don't get me started on Aspartame.

About 8 years ago I switched to drinking Robinsons sugar free orange juice.

Around the same time I began to develop severe headaches, purely at random. Following a process of elimination I eventually tracked it down to the new orange juice which contained Aspartame.

Of course it could have been any of the other ingredients, but as my research into Aspartame deepened, I realised I was suffering several of the reported symptoms.

And sure enough, if I drink anything with Aspartame (even unwittingly) I get a headache.