Thread: Underarm odor problem!

to work really. I was very leery of a crystal working either as I think I have tried them in the past and thought...forget it. Well, at this point in time I was actually searching for a deodorant that did not contain aluminum so when I listened to the talk given about the Crystalux I thought ok...give it a try. I was not prepared for it to work as well as it did. I swear, I have never in all my years had such success with a deodorant and I do with this Crystalux. Believe me, I was one of those people who never wore a nice outfit that would have to be dry cleaned unless I wore a nice sleeved top under it. Now, I don't have a care in the world about underarm odor. It's great. Wish I'd have discovered it years earlier.
Oh and as far as anti-perspirent. I don't think it's a good idea to stop the sweat really. Once you use a product that stops the bacteria from creating the odor, you've licked the problem so to speak.

Originally Posted by Chrissty

Hi, I had a similar probem on holiday last summer, but found it was actually caused by the stick anti-perspirants I was using! The more I was using to mask the problem, the worse the problem became over time.

I finally realised that the stuff was not coming off when I was washing, and was preventing me sweating properly, clogging the pores, and trapping the smell in the surface of my skin.

The answer I found was to regularly use a good dollop of exfliating scrub under my arm, leave it a minute, then scrub off. This took away the dead skin, the residues of antiperspirant, cleared the blocked pores, and I was soon back to normal!

Good Luck!

That is so true, I found that scrubbing my arm pits (until my skin was soft) helped with the odor. Basically, if your under arm skin is rough and dry, your deodorant is still on there! And if you are just layering deodorant on top of each other...bad odors.

Any suggestions for someone who doesn't so much have a problem with odor but with lots and lots of sweat? I have to choose the shirts I wear very carefully because I can get giant wet spots under my arms and certain colors/materials show up worse. I've spent so much time searching for something that'll help with this but haven't found anything yet. I find myself taping paper towels to my underarms when I have a fancy occassion. Haha.

I believe Secret is the strongest antiperspirant. I compared it to Degree last time, and secret had the higher % of whatever that stuffs called that helps keep you dry.

Had this problem myself, my solution? Grow your armpit hair really long, i mean REALLY long, plait it and tie things like garlic, urinal tablets and such like in there.

I now smell delightful all year round, hope this helps.