Comments on: Body Odor Through the Ages: A Brief History of Deodorant

By: perfumes for men

perfumes for men — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:28:00 +0000

I have a passion of perfumes, and I also run a small perfumes sales business. I look
around for posts like yours so I can keep myself updated. I consider the scent of perfumes
as an art because every perfumes’ scent is unique in its own way just like an artist
paints unique pictures. I even run my own blog for perfumes.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:34:52 +0000

Deodorant has only been around/popular since the ’60s? Whoa.

By: Shelliro

Shelliro — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:10:53 +0000

Wow! I had no idea that there was so much history to be had when it came to being fresh or in many cases funky. Great Piece!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:36:32 +0000

Great artical,I loved it. I have heard that deoterant is good, but antipersperents are bad, our bodys are ment to sweet and get rid of toxens, whats real bad is the people who get bowtox injected to their armpits to stop sweet all together.

By: adam

adam — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:02:50 +0000

i stink right now … sexy!

By: Andie

Andie — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:52:15 +0000

Other than the mass email I get from time to time I hadn’t heard what the connection between Alzheimers or cancer and deodorant. If it were true, wouldn’t the brands without the aluminum zinc be promoting the fact that they don’t cause cancer? Wouldn’t the brands with the aluminum be yanking their product off the shelves because someone could sue?

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:13:55 +0000

Stay away from that anti-pers – it really is dangerous stuff packed with a poison that we call aluminum. Now that I have said that, I will use anti-pers on occasion because it has been so ingrained into our society. Sad that corporations are allowed to slowly poison us, and that we pay them to do so. I don’t want to smell anymore then the next person but there must be a better alternative!

By: Fign

Fign — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:44:32 +0000

[qoute]Today, about 95% of Americans use deodorant.[/quote]

I wonder what is the percentage among the French??? If the fame that precedes them is true, I would aim for single digit values….

By: Leah

Leah — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:14:14 +0000

I tried one of those internal deodorant pills. It didn’t work. And it was green. And it made my poop green. That wasn’t very nice. Haha.

I personally like being very clean. I usually take a shower twice a day. Well, I live in Hawaii and the humidity is insane. I don’t have a deodorant obsession, though. I just like relatively mild ones because really strong fruitiness mixed with b.o. makes me nauseous.

As for deodorant history…I think I remember hearing something on one of those wedding shows on TLC or something that bouquets were originally used to mask the smell of the bride. I don’t know how true that is but ew.

By: Brammi

Brammi — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:26:28 +0000

FYI:

There is a big difference between deodorants and anti-perspirants. Deoderants mask scent like a time-release perfume (which sometimes includes an anti-bacterial agent to cut down on smelly bacteria).

It is anti-perspirants which are a cancer risk; the aluminium that promotes cancer is included to literally plug up the pores from which sweat is released (starving those same stinky bacteria).

People tend to dismiss those crystal rock deodorants; but the key ingredient in those is salt which dehydrates the bacteria, leaving nothing but the smell of actual sweat.