what deodorant do you use??

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I don't want to smell perfumey, but I don't want to stink either! I stopped wearing deodorant for a long time as I just got fed up with it... Sometimes it would react with my natural body odour to create an even worse odour!... But now, I am ready to give it another try.

So what do you use??

Mumsnet converted me to crystal deodorant. I was using creams before and my underarms were always itchy and felt like they had a strange coating on. It actually took a week of using crystal deodorant to get rid of the residue left by regular deodorant.

For the first few weeks I did have DH on pit sniff test to double check it was working.

Tom's of Maine is good.

driclor to stop the sweat in it's tracks and dove just to put something under my arms, dont really need it with the driclor

I've just started using pitrok and two weeks in, I'm impressed. You have to apply it straight out of the shower while still wet.

Before that I'd been using my own stuff but the bicarb was irritating my skin. I haven't used 'proper' deodorant for almost a year and smell better for it.

I used unperfumed Mitchum roll-on for ages but it stopped working and I wanted to go a bit more natural so I bought Bionsen, not only does it have a weird aftershavey fragrance it doesn't work terribly well. On impulse I bought a Dive spray yesterday with cucumber but it has that awful powdery smell that gets in the back of the throat and I have remembered why I stopped using sprays years ago. Will look out some of these suggestions.

nivea dry conidence roll on. comes with light scent or without perfume.

Re the homemade stuff, I used a recipe of
5tbsp of coconut oil (biona is what I use)
1/4 cup bicarb
1/4 cup cornflour
Plus a few drops of preferred essential oil.
It takes a week or two for mainstream stuff to clear from you arm pits- nice.

Sorry, I should expand, you melt the coconut oil and mix everything together. Pour it into a container, I used an old tommee tippee weaning pot x 2 and then put in the fridge to set. In the summer I kept it in the fridge but in the winter it stayed solid at room temperature. The solid block pips out of the container, you rub on your underarms and you body temp melts it enough to slide on.

I've used pitrok in the past and it's fantastic, really works but my problem was that after a while the 'rock' itself started to smell of stale sweat. I always made sure I was putting it onto freshly washed skin.

My sister used it and found the same. Does that happen to anyone else or do my family just have a really weird effect on crystal deodorants?

I use Whatever is on offer

I was using Sure or Dove 'clinical strength' for ages but was annoyed at how little product you get, and they are never on special offer.

So I've switched to (Robert) Mitchum solid sticks, I have all three fragrances and like them all. And most importantly, they work.

My Boots has them in non perfumed btw.

The Mitchum sticks are two for four quid in Boots just now, this is v cheap compared to what I was paying for 'clinical' ones. I've stocked up!

I looked in 4 shops for un perfumed Mitchum yesterday-nothing!

Cheapo men's antiperspirants from Lidl for me.

they seem to work as well as any other.

Mitchum unperfumed roll on

Dove stick (looks like soap). The original blue lid one. Have done for years

Lady Speed Stick. Whenever I go to the US, I buy arm fulls in Target and get ever so slightly funny looks. It's the best deodrant I have ever used.

I tend to use whatever is on offer but I often go back to either sure or dove. Have found Nivea, Vaseline, soft and gentle, simple etc all fine too. I find they all do the job!

I've just ordered some lady speed stick from Ebay!

You will not be disappointed!! Think I might go down the eBay/Amazon route myself. At least then I won't be embarrassed in front of the Americans.

I use perspirex, I only use it once a week and then a quick spray of dove.
It stopped my excessive sweating dead.

Either Vaseline double invisible or the black & white nivea, usually one of them on offer somewhere