Monday, February 21, 2011

Update: Something Stinks and It's Not A Dirty Diaper: My Natural Deodorant Quest

Just when you though you'd heard everything about natural deodorant, I have an update.  I was running out of the Tom's (24 hour no propylene glycol) and was thinking about picking up more when...it failed.  To give Tom some credit, it had been a super long day complete with building a desk from scratch and heavy sweating caused by almost passing out from the hole I drilled in my thumb (see previous post).  I should have reapplied, but instead I went straight to the first ladies night out in 6 months.  A great place for the deodorant to fail, a room packed with 50 ladies I don't know who now think I usually smell like
B.O..  Nice.  Thanks Tom.

It could be that even the best deodorant would have filed on such a day though, so I'm giving Tom another chance with his other recipe.  This time I got the clear roll on 24 hour citrus liquid.  It has potassium alum and zinc and seems to be working well so far.  I will let you know if there is a part 3.

One more thing I forgot to mention... One time I was visiting with friends and wanted to be extra fresh.  So I thought, "If baking soda works and that crystal rock thing works, why not combine them for twice the stink fighting power?"  Let me tell you, my friends, this is not a good idea.  The combination immediately began to make a very strong ammonia cloud waft out of my armpits.  Apparently the two chemicals make ammonia.  Who knew?

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