Disposable underarm sweat pads

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Does anyone use these to protect their clothes day-to-day? There are lots on Amazon, but always mixed reviews.

I don't want to rustle, and I don't want any added fragrance.

I would want to use them mostly in stretch fabrics, like T-shirts, and in light fabrics, like viscose, as well as cotton.

Can anyone recommend a make?

I had some disposable pads ages ago that didn't stay put.

I bought some more recently that seem better. I wear them in jackets that I wear over sleeveless dresses as well as in dresses with sleeves. After radiotherapy I find one underarm doesn t sweat and the other sweats for 2. Deodorant works up to a point but not in wool dresses that I can't wash. I got the most recent ones from Amazon - Nonchalante.

I use Halo sports wash for all my smelly gym kit. My sports bras would smell fine in the drawer, then reek within 10 mins of me wearing them! I get mine from Sainsburys.
I also now soak my ordinary underwired bras for a few mins in Halo before hand washing them. They no longer skink either.

I've had laser hair removal on my armpits it's really made a difference I've only had it done about three times over the last four years but have hardly any regrowth and deodorants now work ten times better. It cost £20 first time and hasn't gone up yet.

Yes, very helpful info from Villanova, that makes a lot of sense. I am going to try that too.

Halo sportswash def still worth a go. I just discovered they have a website, halononbio.co.uk, maybe have a look there for more info on how it works, allergy advice etc.
With regard to minimising the sweating in the first place, I forgot to add earlier that I swear by TripleDry. The roll-on version that you use at night. It's the only 'specialist' antiperspirant that doesn't irritate my sensitive pits. Perspirex and Driclor gave me a bad rash.
TripleDry has been great for me, really makes a big difference.

Here's a list of its ingedients for allergy purposes, of the unperfumed version if anyone is interested: (taken from my bottle, so apologies for any typos!)

Aqua
Aluminium Zirconium Tetrachlorohydrex Gly
glycerin
PPG-15 Stearyl Ether
Steareth-2
Cyclopentasiloxane
Steareth-21
Aluminium Sesquichlorohydrate
Cyclohexasiloxane
Aluminium Chlorohydrate
Sodium Benzoate
Allantoin.

Oh I forgot to mention that 'spotting' the underarms of clothes with white vinegar before washing works well for stinky pits!

I had a couple of tops which were fairly old and smelly in the underarm after a short wear. On here someone recommended Halo Sports Wear active wash liquid. I washed the tshirts with this and problem solved. Think it nukes all the bacterial which live in the fabric and cause the smelliest. Highly recommended. Cam in my sainsburys delivery so easy to get hold of, in a silver bottle.

X post Ishouldcoco! I use biological powder already, makes no diff. These tops were summer tshirts so quite heavily sweated on.

I have one cotton top from fat face which makes me stink. I don't know why but I can feel myself sweat in it from the moment I wear it.

I've used these and found them very good: www.sweatguard.co.uk/sweat-pads-uk.asp

I was using a Sure 48 HR anti percipient and after a while realised that only one armpit was sweating and smelling. Washing twice daily wasn't combating that one armpit to stop smelling. It was really weird. I think the sweat glands were blocked so switched to a sure roll on and haven't looked back. No smelling at all and even after a strenuous day at work, sweet smelling underarms.ill never use a spray again. Roll ons all the way.

I've stopped having trouble with my tops smelling since I started using this. It is also the first time I have found a more friendly deodorant that actually works for me!

Have you tried using panty liners they are similar to dress shields I would have thought

My 20's were miserable with perspiration. I only wore pale colours and dripped my way through the day. One massive advantage of being post menopausal is less sweat. I can now wear anything I want it may also be due to better anti-perspirants, 48 hr etc and the fact that my graves disease was diagnosed 20 odd years ago when I was 30. Menopause and better anti-perspirants largely though.

I really agree with natural fibres and swerving synthetics though - so pleased I don't have to any more. In my 20s and 30s, I literally only wore pure cotton, linen and silk. It was very very expensive and limiting.

Have you tried moo goo fresh cream deodorant? It's brilliant, it does something to the bacteria in your sweat to stop it smelling. I'd link to it But I can't work out how. But google it, it's natural and it works. I bloody love it.

OP your post actually reminded me I had bought the dress shields. I've actually looked at the ones I referred to above and they seem pretty well-made,. They are certainly a lot better than the pathetic ones I bought before, which I think came from John Lewis (years ago).

Reduce or take out dairy and meat products, processed foods and spices like chilli if you smell strongly. Instead increase fruit, veg, fish, nuts and seeds. Many people find this helps enormously even after one week.

I agree wotoodoo also drinking plenty of water to 'detox' and maybe take a good quality Digestive Aid , Viridian make one.

Not eating the heavy protein foods with carbs helps digestion too. Oh and eat your fruit on an empty stomach. !

The issue is not that I smell strong. I don't, not even when I sweat. The problem is that my shirts smell bad.

Try that tip about white vinegar , it doesn't make the laundry smell nasty, it just neutralises the sweaty smells , Honest I do it all the time!

For anyone who's interested, I can definitely recommend Botox treatment

If your clothes smell bad despite washing them surely it is better to look at what goes into your body that might be creating the toxins in the first place?

Rather than these elaborate methods of 'masking' I would think it is more important to get to the root cause of the issue.

Toxins come out of pores and blocking or masking can never be a good thing. I would overhaul your diet first to see if that makes a difference.

The OP isn't asking how to 'mask' the smell of her sweat, she just asked how to get rid of the smell that re-appears in her clean clothes after her body heat has reactivated it. Nobody has suggested she mask it, people have suggested ways to actually remove the bacteria or chemicals that are still in the clothes after normal washing. It's nothing to do with toxins, a cosmetic biologist further up the thread has already explained what causes it.
It's all very well saying overhaul your diet first, but that doesn't actually answer her question on what to do with the clothes that are already affected.

Wotoodoo - is there any scientific evidence that 'toxins' come out of pores, to which you can link? And/or to what 'toxins' are?

I kind of posted and ran, have been meaning to come back to the thread. :) Lots of interesting tips. I wanted to add that washing hotter is probably not the best option for viscose, I've tried in in an attempt to get a stain out and it loses it's shape faster in my experience. But if the option is to bin the article maybe worth a try. I do maintain that washing cotton in hotter water makes for cleaner clothes. The fibre is twisted in a way that creates "pockets" that trap dirt, and hotter, more vigourous washes help to get the fabric really clean. But no, I wouldn't know how much bacteria dies at 60 degrees. More than at 40 maybe? But maybe not the relevant ones. ;)

Thanks for the information on deodorants locking bad odours in clothes! Ha, I've suspected this for years and have also been so annoyed at how commercial deodorants completely RUIN tops.

People's bodies are different and sweat will be different and cause different smells. I've noticed that at times in my life I always seem to get sweat smells trapped in fabrics - at other times it doesn't seem to be an issue and just washes out. Maybe it's hormone levels or stress or something.