Wow, if this new deodorant that touts it’s effectiveness at not only inhibiting pesky body odor and perspiration, which normal deodorants are supposed to do, but also supposedly it’s effectiveness at inhibiting underarm hair growth, worked, I’d be pretty happy, it’d be like I didn’t have to use my normal permanent body hair removal product (which I love by the way) on my underarms, but I could just use this all in one product instead.
I’d have to admit, I’d be a little worried to allow something that supposefly inhibits hair growth to sit on my underarms all day though. I mean, wouldn’t it irritate my skin, like hair removal products usually do (depilatories) that just sit on the skin for the few minutes that you are supposed to leave them there? I’d be afraid I’d end up with raw, irritated underarms, and since I’ve had that before from using a dull razor and not enough lubricant like soap or shaving cream, I know it’s not pleasant to have your underarms feel like they’re on fire.
The product is supposedly only going to be available in England at first though, so we won’t even have access to it here in the US, who knows for how long, since we do tend to have more stringent approval standards for health and beauty products, which isn’t always a bad thing here in the US I suppose, although it is sometimes annoying that we are barred access from very effective products at times.
The product is actually made by a company we know well here in the US, Unilever, under the Dove brand name, and it’s called Sure Dove Hair Minimizing deodorant. Now I know for sure I wouldn’t use this actually come to think of it. I made the switch over to natural deodorants only, as well as my boyfriend, over a year ago since I believe aluminum is very dangerous, and we’re totally happy with them.
They may not be as good at being antiperspirants because of their lack of aluminim but they are good enough, especially when I consider that I’m not putting something on my underarms that contains a heavy metal – and right by some of the most important lymph nodes on my body no less! I won’t be trying this, but it is a novel concept, I must admit. By the way, I’ve tried epilators on the underarms, and they are a little tricky because the hair on the underarms is very coarse and short, but it can work, it’s just kind of painful.
