How to live in a world characterized by advice books from the series “How to clean a house without chemicals”, where the authors recommend using soda, vinegar and citric acid, the very best products of large-scale chemical production? How true is the statement: “The more dangerous a chemical, the more complex its name”? (Spoiler: not by much, otherwise chlorine would be safer for the human body than its own DNA). Today, in the Russian and international information sphere, we are faced with a huge number of legends and scary bedtime stories related to chemistry. Somehow it happened that chemistry began to cause apprehension and fear, and an irrational fear of everything “chemical”—chemophobia—blossomed. However, real stories associated with the discovery of chemicals and the discovery of their beneficial properties are much more interesting than invented legends. In addition, they will be able to save the reader from the irrational fear of everything chemical, interest them in chemistry and make sure that more and more people stop perceiving this science as something dangerous.