Stink!

A simple explanation for why manufacturers won't tell you what is in their products: they don't want to be liable for the harm they know the chemicals they include will cause. The film highlights how America ignores the precautionary principle and allows chemical manufacturers to dictate legislation.

The beginning is a bit slow, setting the scene for why you should care. After that, the film follows a father trying to find what should be simple answers. The reason why he can't find the info is fascinating, if damming.

For future reading: Our Stole Future (1996), Slow Death by Rubber Duck (2009) Sicker Fatter Poorer (2019) Countdown (2021). We've known for a long time, the question is when will you act?

The premise of the documentary is sincere and valid, so it should be watched to be educated.

But from a filmmaking perspective, the content in whole film could have been squeezed into 15-20 minutes, certainly not worthy of feature length.

Most important fact... The US has banned only 10 cancer causing chemicals within a category... Europe has banned 1,200 chemicals within the same category. Wow!

This documentary is extremely important. We are getting sicker and sicker whilst thinking we're developing- proof we need to go back to being natural. To the naysayers on here (who I think are undercover pharmaceutical company workers) take any product in your house, google the ingredients and you'll find a wealth of scientific studies explaining the harmful effects of these chemicals. Look up Titanium Dioxide; an ingredient in toothpaste. I dare you. Please also remember to the animal lovers out there; these chemicals are all tested on animals. Making your own products from ingredients you have at home; such as lemons and coconut oil- are not.

This documentary is obviously exposing a wide-ranging issue that is not getting addressed properly. With a catchy name like 'Stink", the title projects a several things. Things like fragrances use a loop-hole allowing them to be a mixture of chemicals often that are known to be harmful to health. Since the products that simply list "fragrance" as an ingredient are the most widely used among all households we all become ginea pigs with our very health as the lab.

We have the ability to identify thus remove these questionable ingredients yet industry and government have failed often more than not in policing toxins. This is the state of our world and the US is the worst as we often chose the easier route allowing any manufacturer to police their own products

The American Chemical Council is one of the most well funded and nefarious lobbying groups on Capitol Hill. As consumers, and American citizens, we at a distinct disadvantage. It's a classic case of the fox guarding the hen house

It often takes tragedies to inact change and often the slow burn of illness associated with chemical exposure further weight our disadvantage. Still even known dangerous chemicals get through, let alone new compounds we may have zero knowledge of. This film will make the viewer angry as such. It will raise the awareness of the problem. Will it affect a sea-change? I'd say it's imperative we get going toward aggressive governmental protection of all Americans. Complete testing of all products and their chemical makeup should happen. It should be before ANY products are sold to the public. As a society we must accept this burden as necessary. Overall many health problems continue to rise as statistics over many decades of industrial growth clearly parallel. Watch, feel the anger and fear, and push for safe and responsible change.

Hysteria about chemicals in everything. If you enjoy panicking about gluten, carcinogenes, lactose and other stuff, you'd find it eye-opening. If you have a bit of critical mind, you'll be disappointed by absence of evidence and science in this movie. Starts from a kids pijamas that stinks (can't you just wash it?), and goes into corporations that hide what's inside the bottles. Everything is annoyingly vague, no numbers, no statistics, nothing about the harmful dosage ("they said that amount was safe but you use other products that add up").