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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: SCENTS (AND AMWAY) (W
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noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)

Me:
>>    No it's not out-ethics to have body odor.  Quite the
>>    contrary.  It is totally unacceptable to wear *any* FRAGRANCE
>>    at *any* time.  Tubby had a thing about "foreign smells" which
>>    might mask another's "real" odors.  He also had a thing about
>>    dust.  But he couldn't write a policy forbidding it.

sgoehrin@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (scott goehring) writes:
>my wife's ex was exceedingly anal about fragrances.  he even forbade
>the burning of _unscented_ candles because they had too much scent.
>my wife is quite fond of certain scents (tea rose, especially) and
>found this quite annoying.  she never understood where his attitude
>about this came from until we ran across ElTubbo's proclamations about
>scents and smells in our research.  then it all made sense.

>on a related topic, is it common for Scns to use AmWay products?  her
>ex was very big on AmWay too, perhaps in part because they sold a
>large line of--you guessed it--unscented toiletries and cleaning
>supplies.

Jon:
>It would not surprise me.  After all, I'm an Amway distributor myself (but
>am not sponsoring people at the present -- mostly doing personal use of
>their products).  Amway's SA-8 laundry detergent is recommended by a few
>dermatologists because it leaves the least amount of residue, and no
>fragrance, in clothes (this has been independently verified by a Univ. of
>Connecticut consumer study on laundry detergents done a few years ago).
>
>I myself am very sensitive to fragrances/scents in soaps, and since using
>Amway products, my chronic eczema (since high school) completely disappeared.
>(Oops, this is beginning to sound like a non-verifiable "Big Win" that we
>see from the scienos.  Just want to give you my personal perspective on this
>thread -- just take or leave my personal testimony -- it's not important.)
>
>I just want to make the point that if the "honorable" L. Ron Hubbard had a
>thing about soap smell in his clothes, as has been mentioned in this
>newsgroup a few times, it is very understandable why he, the Sea Org crew,
>and other scienos would have tried SA-8.  I'm sure there are a few other
>laundry detergents/soaps that would have similar properties to SA-8, and have
>or are being used by the Sea Org staff and other scienos, but I don't know of
>any by name.
>
>Jon Noring
 
    I never thought I'd see it happen, but here is Jon Noring 
    pushing Amway on ars.
    
    The point of the Policy is that scents are an indication of 
    withholds and show that people are trying to cover up 
    something.

    Rev. Dennis L Erlich   * * the inFormer * *
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