PLUG UP THEM SWEAT FOLLICLES, EVERYONE.....AND, DON'T BE 'FUSSY'.....YOU'VE GOT 'TUSSY'......
many of the 'powdered' anti-perspirant/deodorants are just scented cornstarch.....a few have more complex aluminum compounds and other chemicals that inhibit sweating (i.e. the elimination of toxins, by secretion, and the body's natural way of cooling itself by evaporation)......Packaging and Marketing have produced, in the past century, more and more 'Status' products that promise to completely eliminate 'unsightly' sweat and noxious 'body odors'......with just a 'little bit' more cases of cancer and lung issues.....Propylene glycol working our nervous systems; Aluminum compounds pushing Alzheimer’s disease rates UP; all those Propellants in 'spray-ons' changing the quality of air, depleting Earth's Ozone Layer and....yes, of course, causing even more Cancer......I'm grateful that I don't have 'underarm hair'! and, a quick wipe with an alcohol-drenched cotton ball is, for most, sufficient to prevent them from smelling like goats, anyway......
a friend with bushy armpits called me, on his way to a luncheon, asking if I had some deodorant that he could 'borrow'.....his A/C was on the blitz.....so, he was 'sweating like a hog'......I didn't 'lecture' him, but gave him an opened Calvin Klein Stick Deodorant that has been on my 'medicine cabinet' for 20 years or so.......He shoved the stick under his short sleeves, swiping it over his pits, that changed their 'smell' to a 'French Pit scent' of bergamot/lemon/civet, masking an acrid, putrid, 'skunkiness'....and left, feeling confidently 'scented'.......I said 'wait!'.....took his wet shirt and 'blew it dry' with the wall-mounted hair/body dryer....and handed him a shaker of talc..... as I stood there, sniffing my own pits......before shaking some Emami sandal talc into them.....leaving me 'smelling' like a Louis XIV French geranium/primrose/thyme/basil salad.......
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