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» orly - Underm Odor

In response to Underm Odor posted by signorra:
Hi all. Same as everyone posting here, I've had underarm odor. For over 10yrs now. It has gotten worse over the years. I've started smelling like onions or curry. I've tried out a lot of self-made remedies. I used to use the crystal 'rock' as you guys call it, my mother gave it to me in my teenage years saying it's all natural. It was in powder form. Bad thing about it is, when it dries up under your arms it just 'crumbles' off from your pits. I also tried the pieces of rock crystal but that didn't really work for me. I gave up on the crystal remedy years ago.
I've tried different deodorants -Mitchum was the best but I guess my armpits got immune to it. I now use Dove. I still have armpit odor. For the past 2-3yrs I've been putting a carefully folded tissue between my armpits and my shirts. This is to help absorb the sweat and to prevent the quick transfer of odor from armpit to my shirt's underarm. It's helped me, but being in Asia and with extreme humid weather, I soak those pieces of tissue pretty fast. I sometimes change the tissues and re-apply my deodorant.
I've tried the alcohol swab treatment, over the counter skin medicine, tried baking soda (which burns!), tried the pimple cream remedy (w/c helped me for a day or two but the smell came back with a vengeance!) and the mouth wash. None of which helped me.
It's made me very paranoid and some times so depressed over the years when incidents where classmates or a situation where I'm not able to control the smell and other people in work are able to get a whiff of my odor that affects me.
I was in a local grocery store a couple of weeks back and saw the crystal rock again. This time it was packaged in a plastic bottle and called 'Deo-Nat' and made in Thailand. I decided to try it out again (btw, I also bought the powdered form which I put in a basin with a piece of clothing I want to soak to get rid of the smell -it works). The first few days, it didn't really work. After a week, I've noticed that I smell less. I've actually attempted going out the whole day just applying the crystal rock stick! I still sweat a lot but so far no overpowering smell! I make sure I wear loose clothing, nothing touching my armpits and a fan to keep my body cool.
If I know I'm going out somewhere important like a party or something, I apply Dove once in a while. Dove lasts me for a couple of hours before the scent reacts to my body odor. I've tried the unscented ones but it still smells after a few hours.
The stick works for me in the meantime, I only hope it works longer. Plus I know the importance of not hindering our sweat glands which makes me happy to use the crystal rock. Will update if I get changes.
Btw, I read elsewhere about a mother and daughter drinking chlorophyll pills along with a charcoal tablet a day. I might try the chlorophyll tablets.

-- posted by orly