WetShaving
This is a community of enthusiasts, hobbyists and artisans who enjoy a traditional wet shave: brush, soap, and safety or straight razor. We are a part of the WetShaving community found on Reddit, Discord, and IRC.
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That is interesting about the alcohol. When I first started this hobby I kept seeing reference to Denatured Alcohol, which has a distinct, strong smell (at least in the US). This is meant to prevent consumption, and therefore there's no related taxes added on. Anyway, I thought "that can't be right", and later found out there's such a thing as perfumers alcohol. I wonder if perfumers alcohol is still tax free (at least alcohol tax). I've heard it's not very easy to buy, but I don't know the details.
There's a similar situation with alcohol in the EU/Switzerland, where alcohol can be tax exempt if it has an added ingredient that makes it unfit for human consumption.
For perfumes, Wikipedia knowledge says this tends to be Diethyl phthalate ((DEP) is a phthalate ester. It occurs as a colourless liquid without significant odour but has a bitter, disagreeable taste)
They also mentioned something similar briefly on the podcasts episode: apparently there was a French law prescribing that anything that can be consumed by humans is required to list all ingredients (I surprised, as I'd have massively thought that these kind of laws have centuries later). This marked the beginning of perfumes no longer being marketed as healing beverages.