Deodorant recommendation
May. 15th, 2008 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ocelotI don't know how much I've said publically about my struggles with deodorant (not to be melodramatic or anything...)
Two years ago, I ran out of deodorant, and decided to try Tom's of Maine - specifically, long-lasting Lavendar scent. It made me break out in a horrid rash. A while later I stumbled across a post on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
naturalliving which proved this to be a not uncommon happening.
After that, I tried another type (Kiss My Face, I think), which did the same thing.
The third type didn't make me break out in a rash, but I wasn't terribly happy with how it worked. However, being a little afraid to try anything else, I continued to use it for a year and a half.
After I got tired enough of it not working, I tried Kiss My Face again because of cost and stupidity. I thought maybe my skin had been oversensitive from the Tom's of Maine stuff the previous time I tried it, and it might be better this time. It wasn't, so I returned it.
I got another brand, which seems to work ok. Unfortunately, once I got home and tried it, I realized that "Summer Spice" scent is an Old Spice knockoff (it hadn't been quite as obvious from sniffing the container directly), so it made me smell like a man.
Now I have a spray bottle of Burt's Bees Herbal Deodorant. I rode 20 miles to/from school in 100 degree heat and don't stink. Or smell manly. And now I'm wearing a tank top, which usually invites the stinkiness, and I still don't stink (I did re-apply it after arriving home, but don't know if that was actually necessary).
I think it wins.
Two years ago, I ran out of deodorant, and decided to try Tom's of Maine - specifically, long-lasting Lavendar scent. It made me break out in a horrid rash. A while later I stumbled across a post on
naturalliving which proved this to be a not uncommon happening. After that, I tried another type (Kiss My Face, I think), which did the same thing.
The third type didn't make me break out in a rash, but I wasn't terribly happy with how it worked. However, being a little afraid to try anything else, I continued to use it for a year and a half.
After I got tired enough of it not working, I tried Kiss My Face again because of cost and stupidity. I thought maybe my skin had been oversensitive from the Tom's of Maine stuff the previous time I tried it, and it might be better this time. It wasn't, so I returned it.
I got another brand, which seems to work ok. Unfortunately, once I got home and tried it, I realized that "Summer Spice" scent is an Old Spice knockoff (it hadn't been quite as obvious from sniffing the container directly), so it made me smell like a man.
Now I have a spray bottle of Burt's Bees Herbal Deodorant. I rode 20 miles to/from school in 100 degree heat and don't stink. Or smell manly. And now I'm wearing a tank top, which usually invites the stinkiness, and I still don't stink (I did re-apply it after arriving home, but don't know if that was actually necessary).
I think it wins.
