chemical sensitivity in the general population

Today I learned that Chantix, a drug that is supposed to take all the fun out of smoking so you can quit, causes a bunch of unpleasant mental side-effects in enough people that a writer wrote a whole article about his side-effects. I can get those same side-effects from going into that Whole Foods store I mentioned. It's too bad that so many chemical sensitivities are bad trips; Whole Foods would be a lot more fun if it made me drunk like one kind of outdoor mold does. (Or did. I've been staying out of mold.)

In other news, I hear you can get fragrance out of clothes by soaking them in a bucket with 1/2 cup of salt for an hour. I also heard from an actual hairdresser that you can scrub your scalp with salt instead of shampoo. Clearly I am still thinking about giving up on shampoo, but it may take until I develop my next shampoo sensitivity to nudge me into actually trying it.