[SarahSchilling]

the "fragrances" in the market's cleaning product aisle make me choke.

Maybe each individual manufacturer and each individual product isn't trying to poison us... but put together a few dozen of them and it adds up to a whole lot of ick.

Yeah, the cleaning product isle is probably the third worst smelling isle. Second is the pets one, and ironically the first is gardening LOL.

Anyways, its simply a matter of profit in most cases. Chemical alternatives to natural ingredients are just cheaper, with no short term side effects for most people. Given that the vast majority of people shop based on price rather than ingredients, it's a easy choice to make from the perspective of a business. From their point of view, everyone dies anyway.

It's more than a little disturbing, but such is the inevitable result of corporatism. On the plus side, life is pretty convenient.