Deodorant recommendation

[ocelot]

I 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 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.

Comments

[temperance14.livejournal.com]

I've been using Secret, quite honestly, because it was the only one that seemed to work for my body, and didn't have perfume. (And was on a tight budget). Lately, however, it seems that the stores stock only unscented Secret with antipersperants---an addition with which I'm not physcially comfortable.

Thanks

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

I didn't know they made deodorant-only Secret. I was looking at the mainstream brands last time I was at the store because they really are so much less expensive, and I'd probably go with that myself. It's honestly not the "natural" I'm aiming for as much as non-aluminum and non-staining. And non-horrid-blistering-rash-causing.

[temperance14.livejournal.com]

I know they USED to make some with just deodrant. But apparently not anymore.