Did any of you know that if you don't wear deodorant for 2-4 years, then that gross nasty armpit smell will go away eventually? I don't know if it's worth it but it's kind of interesting. I haven't tried it myself, I just read about it not too long ago. Sometimes I get rashes from deodorant so I put vanilla baby powder in my pits to stop them from stinking. The organic aisle in my grocery store carries this deodorant by Berts Bee's, I thought about trying that. Have any of you tried it?
I love Berts Bees! I have so much stuff from that. Are u sure about that 4 years thing? I didn't know Berts Bees made deodorant.
Not true. My sweetie hasn't used deo for years and he still gets rank. Stink comes from several avenues: hormones such as fight or flight (stress stink) bacteria dining on the sweat, things you may have eaten (onions, garlic, pungent spices, meat) and others. If you are vegan and you eats LOTS of chlorophyll, then the scent will neutralize somewhat. the Burts Bees spray is quite nice.
Someone on here suggested in another thread making your own deoderant by mixing essential oil and beeswax... I tried it just the other day. Maybe I was using the wrong kind of beeswax, but it was al I could find. It is like the kind for candles. Well, it will melt, at a VERY high temp... Which actually wasn't too cool because I used one of my soap mold to mold it and it meltd the shape of it and crap so I can't use that one anymore. It also wont rub onto skin. And don't try what I got the bright idea to try this morning by trying to soften it up by using a hairdryer to heat it up. It starts melting and then when it dris it melts the hair together and it is rather uncomfortable... But it also won't come out easily, and will probably have to wear off eventually. If anyone else knows how to make beeswax softer, I would love to hear it. As in something to add to it with the essential oils so it isn't hard as a rock. In reply to your comment, I don't think that could be true for this reason: What causes the oder when you sweat it makes your pits a warm damp area, and makes bacteria growth skyrocket. The bacteria is what makes the stink. Not using deoderant wouldn't change this... HOWEVER: this may have gotten started by someone who decided in the earlier stages of adolesance to quit using deoderant and in 3 or 4 years their hormone level has slown down quite a bit and they wouldn't have sweat glands and oil glands as active, so it lead them to believe this. This would be the same thing as saying: if you don't wash your face, in 2-4 years your acne will start clearing up. If this would have started in adolesance, then in 2-4 years the oil glands that produce oil that cause bacteria to cause acne would have slown down, and so would the acne problem.
[ The organic aisle in my grocery store carries this deodorant by Berts Bee's, I thought about trying that. Have any of you tried it?[/QUOTE] I haven't tried it, but organic deoderent is definantly the way to go. Because most deoderants are filled with aluminum and other substances that can be harmful to your body
I just thought you'd all like to know since some deodorants cause cancer. Like you said rayne-lyric, I think after awhile the body just gets use to cleansing itself so it will stop smelling after awhile, it may not work for everyone but for some it might. Plus if you wash your arm pits with water everyday and maybe a natural soap then I'm sure it wouldn't be as bad. I thought most hippies didn't wear deodorant, it's like that joke my friend always tells me "Where do you hide money from a hippie?" Under a bar of soap..
Burt's Bees is great...I love the sage smell, and it works quite well, at least for me... I have heard (don't know if it is true or not, but some natural food store people I used to work for swore it was true) that once you get off of the commercial antiperspirants that clog your pores, it will take awhile for any of the natural stuff to work well. The idea behind that is that it takes a bit for the pores to become unclogged, and for the toxins to get out of the lymph glands in the pit area. Once that is accomplished, natural deodorants will tend to work much better. Again, don't know that it is true (or true for all people), but it is fairly good logic, at any rate. I haven't used commercial, drug store antiperspirants for so many yrs. that I can't remember if that happened to me or not....
yah, Sus. that's the line beteewn an antipresperant (which blocks the sweat glands, and that impaction can lead to lymph problems that can conceiveably become cancers. reasearch has not uncovered a direct link as of yet) and a deodorant. Unless you get heinous sweat spots during not much work (school , desk job) anti P is overkill. I 'd rather have an undershirt than antiP anyway (granted its freezing outsde, but I can layer into June.) Aluminium chloride, aluminium chlorohydrate,and aluminium-zirconium are the most common antiP compounds. Toms of Maine uses polyethelyne glycol and lichen as well as essential oils. from Wikipedia: They work because the aluminium-based complexes react with the electrolytes in the sweat to form a gel plug in the duct of the sweat gland. These plugs prevent the gland from excreting liquid and are removed over time by the natural sloughing of the skin. The blockage of a large number of sweat glands has the effect of reducing the amount of sweat produced in the underarm although this varies from individual to individual. from my research, this sounds right. this wiki editor is honest. Thai deodorant stones are potassium alum. ultimately, it's up to the person in the skin.
Baking soda in a salt shaker or an old talc bottle works well enough for me. Shake a little bit on a damp cloth for your body, or shake some into your shoes.
Yikes!!! I feel like a slave to deodorant/antipersperant (strictly the gel types) because my underarms sweat alot(I think it's the stress thing because I can be cold and sweat), but it never stinks..it just smells like whatever the deoderant smells like. That has to be why I get red bumps under my armpit skin that stay sore for a week at a time.
I used to sweat a lot too, and my deoderant would stop working for a while, so I would switch between 2 or 3 over and over again, also sometimes they would irritate my skin. Then I started using Tom's and that was pretty good, but it would sometimes irritate my skin too, it was better than Secret and whatever other popular deoderants I was using, but I'd heard of other things that work better. I used a natural powder with some good stuff in it, but I don't remember what was in it. Then I heard about sandalwood, but it is too expensive now and I never used it. We couldn't find our deoderant for a while and didn't wear any, and honestly it doesn't take 4 years, a few days of not using deoderant and you don't smell nearly as bad, but of course it doesn't last forever because you eat, you sweat, you stress, whatever, so two things that I have found that do work, without irritating or just covering up the scent are tea tree oil and lemon juice.
i did you use dove... but it's not working right anymore,, it takes care of the smell but it's giving me these awful rashes and i can't stop scratching my pits... i'm sure if i kept putting something like baby powder in them, then the smell would stay away, but it's got to be more then once a day, more like three times a day.
