I’m a 19 year old girl. I have been extremely afraid of products coming from Aliexpress for a month now. We ordered birthday balloons on Aliexpress and when they came in they smelled really bad. I thought, this can't be good. My family described it as the typical Aliexpress smell. They were very brightly colored and dirt cheap. I refused to touch them, I then started researching Chinese balloons, which I suspected didn't always meet European safety regulations. Then I logged into Aliexpress on the family account and saw that a lot of stuff from our house came from Aliexpress.   


I started looking up more and more about Aliexpress safety and cheap Chinese products and I kept feeding my fears. Among other things, I found that clothing can have chemicals and even more scary facts. And this was not from some site that is spreading fake news. This was stated on an official government website. I actually want to immediately throw away all my stuff from Aliexpress that I bought in the past 8 years. I am afraid of the bad chemicals. I have already touched and I am extremely afraid of the consequences of my health. I trust stuff in European stores, because they are recalled if a product is bad. This does not happen with Aliexpress. I am now going through the list of items in our house from Aliexpress and I am trying to convince my family that it is a health hazard. I looked up my Aliexpress screen protector, my phone case, to make sure they weren't of poor quality. I also don't dare to print anything, because the printer ink is also from Aliexpress. I dare not touch anything in the house because I know that everything is contaminated with Aliexpress chemicals. I washed my hands with soap. I don't feel safe here anymore. My family keeps ordering from China because it is so cheap. How can I convince them to stop? It would save a lot of stress...