Paul Saladino· MD
so phthalates are these synthetic compounds found in fragrances and this is like when I get an Uber and there's a black ice I can't you and I could talk for hours about this go on there's a black ice tree in the on the rearview mirror and you're smelling it right and you're thinking oh this is gross I roll down the window even in New York when it was freezing I'm rolling down the freaking window and the guy's like what just just drive the car just get me there and you get out of the Uber and you still smell like black ice right or you're in a house or you know I took my car to the mechanic the other day in Costa Rica which is where I live and I they took it to get uh something done and I got the car back and the car smelled like the mechanics cologne and then I have to wash the seeds I think leather seats but I have to wash the seat and like my clothes smell like those are phthalates they're sticky they carry fragrance every time you walk into a room and you see those Glade plugins in the corner it's putting phthalates into the air so these these compounds they're in perfumes not all perfumes but some of them are worse than others they're in lotions um they're fragrance and lotions it's hidden and also like I'm sorry guys when you wear too strong of cologne it makes me want to puke like just like tone back the cologne yeah when I'm on an elevator with a guy and it's too strong I'm like oh it's horrible and so they're fragrance and they're in a lot of things and sometimes they say something they'll say phthalates and or sometimes it'll just say fragrance they're hidden on labels