香料
潜在问题：香料
生活中处处可见香料，从洗衣皂到乳液都有；消费者期望每一种产品闻起来都香气扑鼻。然而，许多人对香料有不良反应，自己却不知道。
香料是造成化妆品接触性皮肤炎的原因之一，其影响超过二百万人。1 如果您对护肤产品或护发产品过敏，很有可能其实是对其中所含的香料过敏。
夸张的是，合成香料竟然可以在鱼类和软件动物身上验出。在这些水生生物体内，香料会干扰其细胞膜上的排出转运体蛋白，它的功能是为细胞排毒。2 虽然这种干扰并不会发生在人体细胞，但我们还是必须知道，我们所用的东西，竟会对千里之外的野生动物造成冲击。
1 “Fragrance Allergies: A Sensory Assault,” WebMD, http://www.webmd.com/(accessed December 15, 2010).
2 Till Luckenbach and David Epel, “Nitromusk and Polycyclic Musk Compounds as Long-Term Inhibitors of Cellular Xenobiotic Defense Systems Mediated by Multidrug Transporters,” Environmental Health Perspectives 113, no. 1 (2005), http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/ (accessed December 15, 2010).
3 David C. Thompsona, Rola Barhoumib and Robert C. Burghardt, “Comparative Toxicity of Eugenol and Its Quinone Methide Metabolite in Cultured Liver Cells Using Kinetic Fluorescence Bioassays,” Tocicology and Applied Pharmacology 149, no. 1, http://www.sciencedirect.com/(accessed December 15, 2010).
4 Nadeem Rezaq Janjua, Hanne Frederiksen, Niels E. Skakkebæk, Hans Christian Wulf and Anna-Maria Andersson, “Urinary excretion of phthalates and paraben after repeated whole-body topical application in humans,” International Journal of Andrology 31.
