Post: #26

It's the bacteria causing the odor rather than the sweat. Try trimming your armpit hair, washing with antibacterial soap and then rubbing some hand sanitizer in there a couple of times a day. Worked wonders for me.

Post: #27

I've posted on Certain Dri before, the stuff is an excellent antiperspirant, sounds like it's not dissimilar to some of the other stuff suggested in this thread.

Post: #28

I used to sweat through every shirt imaginable. I thought I could never cure my armpit sweat. I would wear an undershirt whenever I wore anything but would still sweat through it.

I ditched deodorant/antiperspirant all together. My armpits don't sweat anymore. I don't smell either. I used to trim my armpit hairs so they would cause less sweating. After a full year of not wearing deodorant/antiperspirant, I realize that the hair wasn't the problem. It was the chemicals I was rubbing on my armpits.

I haven't worn deodorant/antiperspirant in over a year. I also haven't shown any pit stains in that time.

I shower one or two times a day depending on my workout schedule. My armpits are clean as can be from showering.

I highly recommend never using commercial deodorants/antiperspirants.

Post: #29

(08-21-2015 11:22 PM)wi30 Wrote:  I used to sweat through every shirt imaginable. I thought I could never cure my armpit sweat. I would wear an undershirt whenever I wore anything but would still sweat through it.

I ditched deodorant/antiperspirant all together. My armpits don't sweat anymore. I don't smell either. I used to trim my armpit hairs so they would cause less sweating. After a full year of not wearing deodorant/antiperspirant, I realize that the hair wasn't the problem. It was the chemicals I was rubbing on my armpits.

I haven't worn deodorant/antiperspirant in over a year. I also haven't shown any pit stains in that time.

I shower one or two times a day depending on my workout schedule. My armpits are clean as can be from showering.

I highly recommend never using commercial deodorants/antiperspirants.

I get how the chemicals from deodorants could possibly make odor worse, and perhaps even increase armpit perspiration a bit. But I'm still surprised by how some people can go from sweating excessively to barely sweating at all?

When I stopped using soap over a year ago I also initially did several months of no deo/antiperspirant. Didn't do anything positive at all for sweat volume during the summer (but as I said in my previous post, going in the opposite direction and using antiperspirant is only marginally effective on me as well).
And since I'm also sweating a lot from numerous other places on the body - including my face - in hot weather, it has always seemed to me like I simply heat up faster and more than the average person, so the body's cooling system has to work harder. Just a non-medical theory though.

Post: #30

MikeS, I get hot easily as well. What I meant was that with deodorant and antiperspirant, I would have huge pit stains when sitting in the average room. Now my armpits don't sweat unless the rest of me is sweating. Even when my pits sweat, there is never a noticeable pit stain. I'm talking of course about being out and about in everyday life. Obviously I show pit stains when playing sports or working out.

I've never noticed any odor with or without using deodorant since I shower regularly. I have a huge bottle of generic shampoo that I also use for body wash.

I don't know the science behind it but it doesn't make sense to me that something marketed to reduce sweat was the cause of it. Hopefully someone can chime in on what is actually in these products.

Post: #31

Okay. I only sweat excessively in summer temperatures. Still enough to be a bit annoying in those months though - even with the temperature a modest 26C or so I'm pretty much ready for a t-shirt change after a short walk back and forth to the nearest supermarket.

Post: #32

(08-21-2015 09:43 AM)polar Wrote:  I've posted on Certain Dri before, the stuff is an excellent antiperspirant, sounds like it's not dissimilar to some of the other stuff suggested in this thread.

(08-18-2015 05:53 PM)the-dream Wrote:  I don't sweat massive amounts but I use Driclor once then basically don't sweat at all under my arms for 2 weeks. It's a million times better than any antiperspirant deodorant and genuinely works.

I ended up seeing a doctor, and I was prescribed Hypercare, which is similar to those two. It's your typical prescription antiperspirant. 20% aluminum, rub it on once a week (or more depending on how you are later on in the week) at night before you go to bed, then wash it off in the morning. Works better than anything I've ever tried for reducing armpit sweat.

To take care of the odor, I use baking soda daily.

If anyone has a problem as bad as I did with sweating, I'd recommend seeing a doctor and getting prescribed something more advanced than store-bought deodorants and antiperspirants. They just don't cut it depending on how much of a sweater you are.

Post: #33

(08-22-2015 11:19 PM)Goldhawkstar Wrote:  

(08-21-2015 09:43 AM)polar Wrote:  I've posted on Certain Dri before, the stuff is an excellent antiperspirant, sounds like it's not dissimilar to some of the other stuff suggested in this thread.

(08-18-2015 05:53 PM)the-dream Wrote:  I don't sweat massive amounts but I use Driclor once then basically don't sweat at all under my arms for 2 weeks. It's a million times better than any antiperspirant deodorant and genuinely works.

I ended up seeing a doctor, and I was prescribed Hypercare, which is similar to those two. It's your typical prescription antiperspirant. 20% aluminum, rub it on once a week (or more depending on how you are later on in the week) at night before you go to bed, then wash it off in the morning. Works better than anything I've ever tried for reducing armpit sweat.

To take care of the odor, I use baking soda daily.

If anyone has a problem as bad as I did with sweating, I'd recommend seeing a doctor and getting prescribed something more advanced than store-bought deodorants and antiperspirants. They just don't cut it depending on how much of a sweater you are.

You like making things hard for yourself. That fancy doctor stuff does not work long term. I've been there. Done that.

I posted my sheet, go read it and follow steps and your BO will be fixed in 4-6 weeks with no sketch chemical medicine and at a much cheaper price. Its that simple.

"Body Odor" is 90% internal and less about the topical issues. The bacteria on the skin react more favorable to more hostile swest that is manufactured internally and will have a more robust chemical profile they can fest on .. Thus causing the odor.

So splashing medical solvents on your skin isn't going to fix the internal problem. Diet is the most effective fix or you take natural plant cleaners which deodorize your digestive tract where your BO originates in the first place.

Clean sweat does not smell. When I am on my regmine I don't need to wear any deodorant, use any baking soda, yeah I sweat.. But you can't stop thay without sketchy chemicals so its a lost cause. Its like trying to stop a boner IMO, its just nature so you desl and adapt as much as you can without harm. "Anti-Sweat" product have hravy metalsnand chemicals or sketchy ways they "stop" you from swesting. It isnt ideal.

Personally, my sweat does not smell so I don't really care if I do sweat which cuts down on the stress from sweating thinking your smelling which actually pumps out the stress sents that do smell and its a negative feedback loop of odor. When your odor is gone and you have no more BO your sweat will just smell like.. Well you .. which is a smell of nothing to your own nose.

And before people say "my BO is too strong" and some plant juice isn't going to help. Just keep in mind my program even had my farts smelling like nothing so unless your saying you smell like strait up shit.. then my program will work for anybody.

Post: #34

kosko,

I read your post, then read your Holy Trinity write-up.

Sounds like a good deal, but my problem has/had more to do with sweating than odor, and it sounds like your solution focuses more on treating odor and not sweat.

Odor isn't really a problem for me anymore since the baking soda actually works now BECAUSE I don't sweat after I apply it (that's why it never worked before).