I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never needed
or used them. The more I use them the more I find I need to be
deodorised, so I avoid them (I think it might be because they block the
pores or something like that). I sweat as much as anyone else, but it
usually doesn't smell stale. Sometimes it does have an unpleasant whiff,
which is hard to shift. Thorough washing with soap and water often
doesn't seem to help much.

I've started using TCP (rubbed on with a little wad on of cotton wool)
on those days when I think I'm likely to get hot and sticky, and so far
it seems to be efficacious, even if I do smell a bit disinfected at
times. Are there any alternatives? I've heard rubbing alcohol mentioned,
but I've no idea what it is or where to get it form.

Daniele
--
Apple Juice Ltd
Chapter Arts Centre
Market Road www.apple-juice.co.uk
Cardiff CF5 1QE 029 2019 0140

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:46:56 UTC,
(D.M. Procida) wrote:

I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never needed
or used them. The more I use them the more I find I need to be
deodorised, so I avoid them (I think it might be because they block the
pores or something like that). I sweat as much as anyone else, but it
usually doesn't smell stale. Sometimes it does have an unpleasant whiff,
which is hard to shift. Thorough washing with soap and water often
doesn't seem to help much.

I've found that using antibacterial soap helps. I'm using a reasonably
pleasant one that I bought in Sainsbury's - Cidal. Might be worth a try.
--
Bob Eager
begin a new life...dump Windows!

In message
,
D.M. Procida writes
I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never needed
or used them. The more I use them the more I find I need to be
deodorised, so I avoid them (I think it might be because they block the
pores or something like that). I sweat as much as anyone else, but it
usually doesn't smell stale. Sometimes it does have an unpleasant whiff,
which is hard to shift. Thorough washing with soap and water often
doesn't seem to help much.

I've started using TCP (rubbed on with a little wad on of cotton wool)
on those days when I think I'm likely to get hot and sticky, and so far
it seems to be efficacious, even if I do smell a bit disinfected at
times. Are there any alternatives?

I've been using Pitrok for several years now. It's a crystal rock which
you apply to wet skin. It claims not to block pores but to create an
environment unpleasant for the whiff-producing bacteria. It certainly
seems to work for me. It's available from health food stores and from
their web-site http://www.pitrok.co.uk/ It's also available as a spray
but that seems less effective.

--
dave @ stejonda

"dave @ stejonda" wrote in message
...
In message
,
D.M. Procida writes
I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never needed
or used them. The more I use them the more I find I need to be
deodorised, so I avoid them (I think it might be because they block the
pores or something like that). I sweat as much as anyone else, but it
usually doesn't smell stale. Sometimes it does have an unpleasant whiff,
which is hard to shift. Thorough washing with soap and water often
doesn't seem to help much.

I've started using TCP (rubbed on with a little wad on of cotton wool)
on those days when I think I'm likely to get hot and sticky, and so far
it seems to be efficacious, even if I do smell a bit disinfected at
times. Are there any alternatives?

I've been using Pitrok for several years now. It's a crystal rock which
you apply to wet skin. It claims not to block pores but to create an
environment unpleasant for the whiff-producing bacteria. It certainly
seems to work for me.

It doesn't for me :-(

I sweat a lot and smell a lot. I use deodorants made by men in white coats
and they work.

Thorough washing (i.e. soaking and and rinsing) and wearing absolutely clean
clothes every day works.

I have a daughter who's even worse. She reacts to chemical deodorants and
says that washing doesn't help - but she wears the same clothes for more
than one day which I'm sure contributes to the whiff.

Mary

Mary Fisher wrote:

"dave @ stejonda" wrote in message
...
In message
,
D.M. Procida writes
I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never needed
or used them. The more I use them the more I find I need to be
snip
I've started using TCP (rubbed on with a little wad on of cotton wool)
on those days when I think I'm likely to get hot and sticky, and so far
it seems to be efficacious, even if I do smell a bit disinfected at
times. Are there any alternatives?

I've been using Pitrok for several years now. It's a crystal rock which
you apply to wet skin. It claims not to block pores but to create an
environment unpleasant for the whiff-producing bacteria. It certainly
seems to work for me.

It doesn't for me :-(

I sweat a lot and smell a lot. I use deodorants made by men in white coats
and they work.

Me too.
Though I will admit to recently finding the discovery of Safeway own-brand
deodorant, at 49p each very welcome.
I can tell no functional difference between this and the 2.50+ ones, once
the perfumes of both have worn off in a couple of hours.

This is where genetic engineering could be really handy.
Pit bacteria with a floral scent.
One application, and you smell good for life.

"Ian Stirling" wrote in message
...
Mary Fisher wrote:

"dave @ stejonda" wrote in message
...
In message
,
D.M. Procida writes
I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never
needed
or used them. The more I use them the more I find I need to be
snip
I've started using TCP (rubbed on with a little wad on of cotton wool)
on those days when I think I'm likely to get hot and sticky, and so
far
it seems to be efficacious, even if I do smell a bit disinfected at
times. Are there any alternatives?

I've been using Pitrok for several years now. It's a crystal rock which
you apply to wet skin. It claims not to block pores but to create an
environment unpleasant for the whiff-producing bacteria. It certainly
seems to work for me.

It doesn't for me :-(

I sweat a lot and smell a lot. I use deodorants made by men in white
coats
and they work.

Me too.
Though I will admit to recently finding the discovery of Safeway own-brand
deodorant, at 49p each very welcome.

Safeway is now Morrison.

I can tell no functional difference between this and the 2.50+ ones, once
the perfumes of both have worn off in a couple of hours.

This is where genetic engineering could be really handy.
Pit bacteria with a floral scent.
One application, and you smell good for life.

"IMM" wrote in message
...


Safeway is now Morrison.

No! Realy?

Well I never.

Mary

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:21:29 +0100, "IMM" strung
together this:

Safeway is now Morrison.

And you're a thick ****, what's your next astoundingly stupid comment
with no particular relevance to anything then?
--

SJW
A.C.S. Ltd

"Ian Stirling" wrote in message
...
Mary Fisher wrote:

"dave @ stejonda" wrote in message
...
In message
,
D.M. Procida writes
I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never
needed
or used them. The more I use them the more I find I need to be
snip
I've started using TCP (rubbed on with a little wad on of cotton wool)
on those days when I think I'm likely to get hot and sticky, and so
far
it seems to be efficacious, even if I do smell a bit disinfected at
times. Are there any alternatives?

I've been using Pitrok for several years now. It's a crystal rock which
you apply to wet skin. It claims not to block pores but to create an
environment unpleasant for the whiff-producing bacteria. It certainly
seems to work for me.

It doesn't for me :-(

I sweat a lot and smell a lot. I use deodorants made by men in white
coats
and they work.

Me too.
Though I will admit to recently finding the discovery of Safeway own-brand
deodorant, at 49p each very welcome.
I can tell no functional difference between this and the 2.50+ ones, once
the perfumes of both have worn off in a couple of hours.

This is where genetic engineering could be really handy.
Pit bacteria with a floral scent.
One application, and you smell good for life.

That's the only good use for gm I've heard ...

Mary

In message , Ian
Stirling writes
Mary Fisher wrote:

"dave @ stejonda" wrote in message
...
In message
,
D.M. Procida writes
I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never needed
or used them. The more I use them the more I find I need to be
snip
I've started using TCP (rubbed on with a little wad on of cotton wool)
on those days when I think I'm likely to get hot and sticky, and so far
it seems to be efficacious, even if I do smell a bit disinfected at
times. Are there any alternatives?

I've been using Pitrok for several years now. It's a crystal rock which
you apply to wet skin. It claims not to block pores but to create an
environment unpleasant for the whiff-producing bacteria. It certainly
seems to work for me.

It doesn't for me :-(

I sweat a lot and smell a lot. I use deodorants made by men in white coats
and they work.

Me too.
Though I will admit to recently finding the discovery of Safeway own-brand
deodorant, at 49p each very welcome.
I can tell no functional difference between this and the 2.50+ ones, once
the perfumes of both have worn off in a couple of hours.

This is where genetic engineering could be really handy.
Pit bacteria with a floral scent.
One application, and you smell good for life.

I trust that smellnet will be banned when it arrives in line with
binaries
pooooooooooo

--
geoff

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:08:10 GMT, raden wrote:



I trust that smellnet will be banned when it arrives in line with
binaries
pooooooooooo


All of which reminds me of the Swedish pharmacy sketch (can't remember
who did it) but requires to be read with Swedish accent:

Customer: "I would like some deodorant please"

Pharmacist: "Ball or aerosol"

Customer: "Neither. I want it for under my arms"


..andy

To email, substitute .nospam with .gl

Mary Fisher wrote:


Thorough washing (i.e. soaking and and rinsing) and wearing absolutely clean
clothes every day works.

I have a daughter who's even worse. She reacts to chemical deodorants and
says that washing doesn't help - but she wears the same clothes for more
than one day which I'm sure contributes to the whiff.

Simple lesson on B.O.

Sweat doesn't smell!

It's the bacteria that feeds off sweat that starts to grow after around
14 hours or so.

So, to stop stinking and making everyone around you feel like vomiting
when you exude your pungent stench, take your shower in the morning, not
at night.

That way, you are not smelly during the day when you are going to meet
people; and who cares if you start to pong later in the evening, you'll
be at your smelliest while you're asleep.

As for wearing yesterdays sweat soaked clothes, is it any wonder they
reek like skunks rectum... sorry, "oudour glands" this is the 21
century, people have things like automatic washing machines and tumble
driers. there is absolutely NO reason for wearing the same clotes day
after day.

Perhaps they should teach elementary personal hygiene at schools along
with english and maths!

HTH


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In message , Pet
writes
Simple lesson on B.O.

Sweat doesn't smell!

It's the bacteria that feeds off sweat that starts to grow after around
14 hours or so.

So, to stop stinking and making everyone around you feel like vomiting
when you exude your pungent stench, take your shower in the morning,
not at night.

What each June 23rd?

I can't see the difference whether it's morning or evening


That way, you are not smelly during the day when you are going to meet
people; and who cares if you start to pong later in the evening, you'll
be at your smelliest while you're asleep.

Who cares?


As for wearing yesterdays sweat soaked clothes, is it any wonder they
reek like skunks rectum... sorry, "oudour glands" this is the 21
century, people have things like automatic washing machines and tumble
driers. there is absolutely NO reason for wearing the same clotes day
after day.

Good - I'll send you my clothes to wash


Perhaps they should teach elementary personal hygiene at schools along
with english and maths!

No, maybe we need a sense of proportion here

--
geoff (WHO IS TAKING THE **** FOR THOSE WHO MISSED IT)

raden wrote:


So, to stop stinking and making everyone around you feel like vomiting
when you exude your pungent stench, take your shower in the morning,
not at night.


What each June 23rd?

If you're a student then yes, probabally just the once is all you'll
manage, but don't worry, the rest of your student chums will smell just
as bad and no one will be any the wiser.

I can't see the difference whether it's morning or evening

Which part of "You start to stink after 14 hrs" don't you understand?
Of course, if you work night shifts, then shower in the evening BEFORE
you go to work. thats WORK! Something, like personal hygiene, you may
not be familiar with.

That way, you are not smelly during the day when you are going to meet
people; and who cares if you start to pong later in the evening,
you'll be at your smelliest while you're asleep.


Who cares?

not me, not as long as I never have to be around you during the day.

As for wearing yesterdays sweat soaked clothes, is it any wonder they
reek like skunks rectum... sorry, "oudour glands" this is the 21
century, people have things like automatic washing machines and tumble
driers. there is absolutely NO reason for wearing the same clotes day
after day.


Good - I'll send you my clothes to wash

You ARE Student!

maybe we need a sense of proportion here

Well, I'm 6'2" weigh 15 stone and don't smell,

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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:19:02 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

It doesn't for me :-(

I sweat a lot and smell a lot. I use deodorants made by men in white coats
and they work.

Try an anti-perspirant containing aluminium chloride hexahydrate
(Anhydrol Forte is one make). It blocks the sweat glands and they
eventually "learn" to stop sweating. I spent all my teenage years
trying to find clothes that didn't show sweat-marks and I wish I had
discovered this anti-perspirant earlier. I stopped using it about
five years ago and my armpits have still forgotten that they are
allowed to sweat :-)

--

Julie S

In message
,
D.M. Procida writes
I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never needed
or used them.

Good sentiments IMHO

The more I use them the more I find I need to be
deodorised, so I avoid them (I think it might be because they block the
pores or something like that). I sweat as much as anyone else, but it
usually doesn't smell stale. Sometimes it does have an unpleasant whiff,
which is hard to shift. Thorough washing with soap and water often
doesn't seem to help much.

I don't have a problem.

I can't speak for those around me


I've started using TCP (rubbed on with a little wad on of cotton wool)
on those days when I think I'm likely to get hot and sticky, and so far
it seems to be efficacious, even if I do smell a bit disinfected at
times. Are there any alternatives? I've heard rubbing alcohol mentioned,
but I've no idea what it is or where to get it form.

Are you being oversensitive?

It might be worthwhile asking other people who are in relatively close
contact with you for an honest opinion, you could also ask them if you
smell

--
geoff

"raden" wrote in message
...
In message
,
D.M. Procida writes
I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never needed
or used them.

Good sentiments IMHO

The more I use them the more I find I need to be
deodorised, so I avoid them (I think it might be because they block the
pores or something like that). I sweat as much as anyone else, but it
usually doesn't smell stale. Sometimes it does have an unpleasant whiff,
which is hard to shift. Thorough washing with soap and water often
doesn't seem to help much.

I don't have a problem.

Oh Maxie! Spherical people sweat and smell a lot. Everyone knows that.

In message , IMM writes

"raden" wrote in message
...
In message
,
D.M. Procida writes
I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never needed
or used them.

Good sentiments IMHO

The more I use them the more I find I need to be
deodorised, so I avoid them (I think it might be because they block the
pores or something like that). I sweat as much as anyone else, but it
usually doesn't smell stale. Sometimes it does have an unpleasant whiff,
which is hard to shift. Thorough washing with soap and water often
doesn't seem to help much.

I don't have a problem.

Oh Maxie! Spherical people sweat and smell a lot. Everyone knows that.

Don't come to me with your problems

--
geoff

"raden" wrote in message
...
In message , IMM writes

"raden" wrote in message
...
In message
,
D.M. Procida writes
I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never
needed
or used them.

Good sentiments IMHO

The more I use them the more I find I need to be
deodorised, so I avoid them (I think it might be because they block
the
pores or something like that). I sweat as much as anyone else, but it
usually doesn't smell stale. Sometimes it does have an unpleasant
whiff,
which is hard to shift. Thorough washing with soap and water often
doesn't seem to help much.

I don't have a problem.

Oh Maxie! Spherical people sweat and smell a lot. Everyone knows that.

Don't come to me with your problems

If you were around your smelliness would be a problem, so buy a couple of
gallons of anti-spherical person spray. Better still buy a vat of it.

In message , IMM writes

"raden" wrote in message
...
In message , IMM writes

"raden" wrote in message
...
In message
,
D.M. Procida writes
I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never
needed
or used them.

Good sentiments IMHO

The more I use them the more I find I need to be
deodorised, so I avoid them (I think it might be because they block
the
pores or something like that). I sweat as much as anyone else, but it
usually doesn't smell stale. Sometimes it does have an unpleasant
whiff,
which is hard to shift. Thorough washing with soap and water often
doesn't seem to help much.

I don't have a problem.

Oh Maxie! Spherical people sweat and smell a lot. Everyone knows that.

Don't come to me with your problems

If you were around your smelliness would be a problem, so buy a couple of
gallons of anti-spherical person spray. Better still buy a vat of it.

As I said, if you could read, I don't have a problem

--
geoff

raden wrote:

I've started using TCP (rubbed on with a little wad on of cotton wool)
on those days when I think I'm likely to get hot and sticky, and so far
it seems to be efficacious, even if I do smell a bit disinfected at
times. Are there any alternatives? I've heard rubbing alcohol mentioned,
but I've no idea what it is or where to get it form.

Are you being oversensitive?

I'm not bothered about the smell of TCP - it's pleasant enough - but I
would like the option of not smelling of it.

It might be worthwhile asking other people who are in relatively close
contact with you for an honest opinion, you could also ask them if you
smell

There are people around me who don't need to be asked, including one
whose sense of smell has been at science-fiction levels of sensitivity
ever since she was pregnant eight years ago...

Daniele
--
Apple Juice Ltd
Chapter Arts Centre
Market Road www.apple-juice.co.uk
Cardiff CF5 1QE 029 2019 0140

"D.M. Procida" wrote
| I've started using TCP (rubbed on with a little wad on of
| cotton wool) on those days when I think I'm likely to get
| hot and sticky, and so far it seems to be efficacious, even
| if I do smell a bit disinfected at times. Are there any
| alternatives? I've heard rubbing alcohol mentioned,
| but I've no idea what it is or where to get it form.

"Surgical Spirit" from a chemist. They may look at you suspiciously if you
buy it in the same sort of quantities that some people buy mineral water
(they assume you are buying it for imbibing).

I've just compared the ingredients of my Tesco Deodorant Body Spray vs Sure.
The body spray is (*ane propellants aside) alcohol denat, water and parfum.
So it's basically nice-smelling alcohol, with none of the aluminium
chlorwhatsit that sticks to skin and clothing. I suspect it would be more
acceptable than TCP which, despite its undoubted utility in the antiseptic
department, might be unflatteringly compared with sheepdip so far as aroma
is concerned.

Owain

"D.M. Procida" wrote in
message
...
I've never got on well with deodorants, and have generally never needed
or used them. The more I use them the more I find I need to be
deodorised, so I avoid them (I think it might be because they block the
pores or something like that). I sweat as much as anyone else, but it
usually doesn't smell stale. Sometimes it does have an unpleasant whiff,
which is hard to shift. Thorough washing with soap and water often
doesn't seem to help much.

I've started using TCP (rubbed on with a little wad on of cotton wool)
on those days when I think I'm likely to get hot and sticky, and so far
it seems to be efficacious, even if I do smell a bit disinfected at
times. Are there any alternatives? I've heard rubbing alcohol mentioned,
but I've no idea what it is or where to get it form.



The rubbing alcohols that I have come across have been West Indian - Bay Rum
and Alcolada.

Ran out of Bay Rum ages ago, but still use the Alcolada Glacial occasionally
after shaving (yeah, I know, it's reckoned that astringents should be
avoided, but by god they work...). They're a bit fierce, but hey, some
people pay good money for pain like that!

Don't know where to get them here (got mine in Dominica a few years ago) but
I'm sure I have seen them in shops that sell a lot of W.I. produce.

--
Richard Sampson

mail me at
richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk

D.M. Procida wrote:
snip
Thorough washing with soap and water often
doesn't seem to help much.

Daniele,
Have you tried showering before work?
I know from experience, attempting to "wash" your pits in the sink with
soap & flannel is next to useless, and actually takes longer than having
a full sower, what with the water running down your elbow onto the floor
etc.

I believe if you do the shower thing before work every day, you'll not
need deodorant, though you'll find it might help later into the
afternoon/evening.

If you don't want to go to bed feeling a little smelly, the only thing
to do is have 2 x showers a day. A shower can be over and done in less
than 5 minutes, so it's no harder than brushing your teeth!

Oh, an NEVER EVER wear the same blouse/shirt/top for more than 12 hours
without bunging it in the washing machine... unlike some stinky B'stds
that wear their clothes 2 or 3 days running yet still believe it's a
genetic rather than a personal cleanliness problem.

HTH
Pete

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Pet wrote:

Thorough washing with soap and water often
doesn't seem to help much.

Have you tried showering before work?
I know from experience, attempting to "wash" your pits in the sink with
soap & flannel is next to useless, and actually takes longer than having
a full sower, what with the water running down your elbow onto the floor
etc.

I wouldn't know - that is not something I've ever attempted in my life.
When I say washing, I mean in a shower.

I believe if you do the shower thing before work every day, you'll not
need deodorant, though you'll find it might help later into the
afternoon/evening.

If it doesn't get started, I find I don't need a deodorant at all for an
entire day or more. Today I cycled to work, cycled home (failing to
improve on my personal best top speed), spent two hours at Aikido
wearing a heavy suit which now feels as though someone had a bath in it,
and there's not the faintest whiff about me. I think I might be luckier
than other people in that respect, but if I use a deodorant I pay for it
later.

Oh, an NEVER EVER wear the same blouse/shirt/top for more than 12 hours
without bunging it in the washing machine... unlike some stinky B'stds
that wear their clothes 2 or 3 days running yet still believe it's a
genetic rather than a personal cleanliness problem.

I often wear the same shirt two days running (not today's though),
lacking either a servant or a wife. It doesn't seem to be a problem in
itself.

Daniele
--
Apple Juice Ltd
Chapter Arts Centre
Market Road www.apple-juice.co.uk
Cardiff CF5 1QE 029 2019 0140

D.M. Procida wrote:


I often wear the same shirt two days running

I almost never wear a shirt at all.

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
D.M. Procida wrote:


I often wear the same shirt two days running

I almost never wear a shirt at all.

Scruffs never do.