I’ve always been curious about this myself. It’s getting progressively more difficult to locate a “deodorant” on the store shelves that’s not an “antiperspirant.” I always just imagine that the part of me that wants to sweat the most ought to be allowed to. Obviously my fear is irrational, since many, many people use antiperspirants. Will the body just sweat someplace else, or would I be slightly screwing up my cooling system if I were to switch?
Come down to Louisiana, and your worries will be allayed – the sweat will drip on through with ease.
Seriously, though … **What the? ** (the poster) … what brand is that? I’m looking for some nuclear-strength anti-perpirant.
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Cecil wrote a column about covering oneself in paint, which would seem to apply equally well to anti-perspirant. The short answer: dry pits are absolutely not a problem.
Wow, I’m surprised you find yours so effective, because I have some Adidas antiperspirant-deodorant for women and it doesn’t work very well. I only use it on days when I’m not going to the gym, and I’m not planning to buy it again.
That Certain-Dri stuff really works well - you’re supposed to apply it at night and then it works for 48 hours. You can shower and all, it doesn’t matter.
Well, I can’t use any antiperspirant because it causes me to itch something fierce.
I can’t see how blocking the sweat glands from doing their thing can be of any good either.
I just use deoderant, of the non-solid kind. Clear gel type stuff. Works fine for me, at least no-one else complains.
And their version manages to work even though they have armpit hair (the reason I always shave my armpits, even though I almost never wear anything such that armpit hair would show, is so my antiperspirant will be more likely to work). I always wondered if the men’s antiperspirants were better than women’s…
But don’t you have problems with sweat stains in your shirts?
I want a really effective antiperspirant so I don’t have to worry about my shirts being loose enough at the armpits to avoid sweat stains. Worrying about whether they fit in other places is bad enough.
I’ve found the non-perfumed antiperspirants (which are combined with deodorants so often you can say one and mean the other) work a charm for fighting itchiness.