This sufficed. During my years in New York, sweat never manifested into a swampy, humiliating dilemma. Because I had to walk everywhere, deodorant wasn't good enough, but generic antiperspirant more or less did the trick. On days that reached the mids, dark stains, shaped like the Great Lakes, formed on the T-shirt, just beneath my armpit, which I accepted as part of life. But in Texas, where the temperature will pass just for giggles, the routine began to falter.
After a few weeks of having Lake Erie and Lake Michigan running down my sides, I upgraded to clinical strength antiperspirant. And that failed, too. Desperate, confused, and smelly, I tried something daring and read the directions for proper application. On clinical strength antiperspirant, and on countless health websites, you will find this simple, easy, seemingly illogical advice: apply antiperspirant right before you go to bed.
Not quite! Antiperspirant works by clogging sweat ducts, preventing moisture from escaping your body. By applying at night, the antiperspirant has time to — how do I say this in a way that doesn't sound gross — clog those ducts.
Once the antiperspirant has had time to set, it should last 24 hours, even if any residue is washed off in the shower. The problem with applying in the morning is that your body is more likely to sweat before the antiperspirant has had time to — ahem — clog those ducts, and so you find yourself sweating through the rest of the day.
I know I'm not the first person to write about this. Not even close. This is simple-to-explain, easy-to-use advice. I'm sharing it again, because despite the tip being all over the internet — and on the box of antiperspirant — almost everyone I speak with about this is shocked to learn the truth about nighttime application.
Join my colleagues and me and test the method. Somehow, it still doesn't seem like enough. Instead of advising her clients to shell out even more money to try different antiperspirants that may or may not work, Wu suggests a far more economical approach. We take a hot shower, we jump out of the shower, we barely towel off, and then we put on our antiperspirant," Wu says. The antiperspirant doesn't have enough time to do its job. It gets rinsed off of our skin as soon as we start sweating.
To minimize that sweat, you should consider moving much of your morning routine to the evening hours and incorporating your hair dryer into the mix. Apply the antiperspirant, and blow dry again. Fortunately I found a safe solution, Witch Hazel. It is all natural. I started by cleaning my armpits morning and night for about a month. Now I just clean them once a day after I shower. I no longer have issues and some days I forget and I am okay. From what I have read it will also clean the pores and kill the bacteria, that is why you need to use it twice a day for a month straight.
No more aluminum for me. I wish I had found this simple and safe solution years ago. What would you recommend? I used Mitchum for a while, and then I was able to switch back to Dove with no problems. Really, really good article. I honestly never knew your body got use to the same antiperspirant or deo.
It really makes sense to me now reading this. Sure used to be great for me, but has stopped working when i need it most- during hard exercises and hot weather. From my experience, it all has to do with making sure you use the products as directed on the box. As a personal preference, I like the sticks. Wow… I thought this was just me! Also, aside from becoming self conscious, that poses a big bummer because being able to wear things a couple times saves the fading, etc of nicer fabrics.
I think we can say, most of us are not a stinky people. Also, the heat and humidity has been normal this summer, which has not helped matters at all. I also skipped the deodorant completely and used a dusting of baking soda for a change as I figured this would help clean any bacteria, as well as neutralize order. Funny thing, it worked! Wash well, antiperspirant at night, Lucky Tiger aftershave in the morning.
Antiperspirants do well to keep me from sweating, but they always lose scent after a few hours. A great article thank you! Especially since she showers every day! Trying some of these tips here… I also read that it is a good idea to use a cool hair dryer under your arms for 10 seconds before and after applying product and to never apply product to wet or damp skin. I looked up information and found that body odor can be a by-product. I have also found that the body odor smell is stronger and is still present even after washing her clothing.
Detergent and baking soda combined did not help-neither did multiple washings. Instead I had to purchase odor fighting Oxyclean, turn the clothes inside out, have them soak in the washing machine for a few hours, run that cycle through then run as a regular load as usual. Thankfully this eliminated any odors. I hope this helps! So, everyone says I should put my antiperspirant on at night for it to work best. A shower in the morning is an absolute must.
I currently have about six brands in my medicine cabinet. After having the same problem, and after researching it, I decided to try washing my clothes with Tide, instead of Woolite. I would think Tide would be harsher on fabric, but its worth a try to eliminate odor.
I also soaked my laundry in baking soda and water first. Just doing the first load now—will see if it works. Incidentaly, I always use Tide on my husbands laundry. If you can stand the smell, I tried white vinegar and then put secret on top of it..
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