Oooh (eew) that smell!

Caution - I'm about to share about body odor and deodorant. Don't read it if you're easily grossed out. If however, you're interested in being healthy and smelling lovely - read on!


Last month sometime I stopped wearing deodorant/antiperspirant. I started to notice that my armpits were smelling musty all of the time - even after I scrubbed in the shower. I am a very hygienic person, so I found this seriously troubling!

The first thing I tried was scrubbing with some witch hazel, thinking that the antiseptic would kill the yuck causing bacteria. It helped a bit but not as much as I'd hoped. So I decided to get a little more drastic. I stopped wearing the Dove at all. I started scrubbing with a good natural fiber brush - and some great smelling coconut-lemon soap that I found at the natural foods store. For a few days I just put lotion or coconut oil in there. And as you'd expect - for a few days I was kind of a stinky hippy... Although the coconut oil really curbed a lot of the stinky (It's a natural antiseptic - didja know?).

Now I'm using some cool aluminum free, paraben free stuff I got at Lush while I was pregnant. It doesn't have much of a smell (which is why I picked it when I was pregnant) and it seems to work pretty well. It's just a hunk that you have to scrub into your armpits but I don't mind too much. If it's a really hot day, or I'm really active that day it fails sooner than normal scary chemical stuff would - like 8 hours instead of 12.

I am not one of those people that enjoys my stink - if I am sweaty and gross I can tell and it bugs me! So when my pits stink I know - and can't wait to hit the shower! But now I am finding that I actually stink less.** If I'm just hanging out at home I can skip the deodorant altogether. And I don't smell myself until the next morning - when it is just obvious to me that I need to shower, not overwhelmingly gross. :)

**This could have a tiny bit to do with what we've been eating around here lately - lots of organic and very little (to no!) processed junk. 

So I've convinced my mom to switch to a crystal or some other aluminum free deodorant. Using coconut oil first as a moisturizer and sort of a prep.

So there you have it - several paragraphs about body odor and deodorant! Hope you find it helpful or inspiring - get rid of your cancer and alzheimer's causing yucky deodorant and get a little more healthy and a little less stinky!