I saw that the active ingredient in Mitchum deodorants for the male and female products differ.
Male: aluminum sesquichlorohydrate.
Female: aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex gly.
What would be the point of this. Is male and female physiology of sweating that different? I’ve also seen this in other brands.
Physiology of sweating - No different.
Amount of sweating and sensativity to different compounds are different. It’s also not really different between men and women, it’s more different between people. Some people get rashes from different deoderants.
I tend to stay away from aluminum in deodorant. There are some people who claim it has negative effects on the brain, but mostly for me it’s the reaction of the aluminum that makes your shirts get yellow pit stains. No aluminum, no yellow areas on white shirts.
[quote]Brant_Drake wrote:
I tend to stay away from aluminum in deodorant. There are some people who claim it has negative effects on the brain, but mostly for me it’s the reaction of the aluminum that makes your shirts get yellow pit stains. No aluminum, no yellow areas on white shirts.[/quote]
What do you use instead? I’ve tried a few brands of aluminum free deodorant but they didn’t work at all.
[quote]Hagar wrote:
What do you use instead? I’ve tried a few brands of aluminum free deodorant but they didn’t work at all. [/quote]
Old spice.
Deodorant just doesn’t cut it though. I sweat like a beast and need antiperspirant, which are all aluminum based (I think). Any suggestions for an alternative?
Frankly, I’m a big fan of Mitchum deoderant. Aluminum or not, I could care less: It works. I don’t have some vendetta against chemicals or bizarre agents. I’m no tree hugger.
I read that aluminum based deodorants and antiperspirants can cause your body to hold on to more fat. Its from that book “You on a Diet”. It was a best seller earlier this year. The info came from studies.
[quote]Contrl wrote:
Frankly, I’m a big fan of Mitchum deoderant. Aluminum or not, I could care less: It works. I don’t have some vendetta against chemicals or bizarre agents. I’m no tree hugger.[/quote]
Laughing my ass off.
TBN
[quote]Schwarzenegger wrote:
Deodorant just doesn’t cut it though. I sweat like a beast and need antiperspirant, which are all aluminum based (I think). Any suggestions for an alternative?[/quote]
Just be proud you sweat like a beast.
I use Thai Crystal spray. Four spritzes into each pit and a couple on my ass abd balls and I’m good to go. I sweat but I don’t stink.
I don’t sweat like a beast, but a fair amount. I don’t use deodorant, and I haven’t for 2 years. I just spray like 2-3 sprays of cologne under my arm. It used to sting like hell. But now all the ladies love how I smell. I like how i smell too. So it’s a win win, if you’re not a weenie.
A slight hijack here but still roughly on topic.
Deoderant stops you niffing, sure. So does, as Arc says, a squirt of cologne. No worries.
Anti-persperant stops you sweating. Ok so nothing we didn’t know there. But the act of sweating doesn’t just assist the body to cool down. It’s also a release for toxins which otherwise can build up in lymph glands. This is not a good thing to happen and there is a lot of research going on at the moment into the long term effects of such products.
Probably like a one in a million chance of anything nasty happening as a direct result of using anti-persperant, but interesting to me nonetheless.
Personally, I use a squirt of something to smell nice and don’t worry about the sweat.
I’d stay away from antiperspirants, just because the idea of clogging pores to stop sweat and odor - although direct - doesn’t seem too smart in the long run. There’s reason to believe that the Aluminum salt found in most antiperspirants is a neurotoxin, and because it’s the chief ingredient in most antiperspirants it’s not likely that you’ll find a brand that doesn’t have it. I’d recommend using deodorant or spraying some cologne under your armpits like arc_1mpuls3 suggested.