Comments on: Things I Quit – Antiperspirant and Deodorant

By: Eliot Burdett

Eliot Burdett — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:45:00 +0000

Hey Brady. There are a couple of brands, Ie Tom’s that don’t have any aluminum but they may have other chemicals that aren’t so great. I used baking soda for a while and now usually just go without. Eliot

By: Brady

Brady — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:37:00 +0000

Hey Eliot, I’m so glad I found your post. You’ve almost been a year into finding a deodorant that doesn’t contain aluminum or parabens. I’m also searching for an alternative. What have you found so far?

Brady Holden

By: Eliot Burdett

Eliot Burdett — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:18:00 +0000

Jeremiah,
We share experiences and feelings on this. Seems “natural” has no distinct meaning in the retail trade. Always pays (excuse the pun) to learn how to read labels! Eliot

By: Jeremiah Stanghini

Jeremiah Stanghini — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:54:00 +0000

Yeah — I hear you on the “natural” deodorants still being toxic. When my wife and I are out shopping, she still has to remind me (sometimes) that when I reach for the ‘natural’ food, it doesn’t mean it’s any better than the GMO-food right next to it.

It’s amazing to me that people in the food business can feel good about their product, promoting it’s naturalness to customers, and yet it still may contain natural “poison.” *sighs*

With Love and Gratitude,

Jeremiah

By: Eliot Burdett

Eliot Burdett — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:38:00 +0000

Jeremiah,
Thanks for adding to the discussion. I am generally ok with non-aluminum deodorants, but as my wife points out (she runs an organic body care business – http://www.pinkgingershop.com) sometimes there are toxic perfumes in the “natural” deodorants. You can find out about your favorite product at SkinDeep – http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/ – they rate the toxicity of various brands.
Eliot.

By: Jeremiah Stanghini

Jeremiah Stanghini — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:32:00 +0000

I hear you on the antiperspirant/deodorant. Outside of physical exertion, I think that the only reason we “smell” as humans is a result of the food we eat. In my own experience, I’ve learned that the more junkier food (ie. inorganic, actual junk food) I eat, the more I smell. Contrary, the more healthy I eat, the less offensive I smell.

I wonder how you feel about more natural or organic (maybe more organic than natural as natural can still be harmful) deodorants? I don’t often put deodorant on unless I feel I need to, and I when I do, I have an eco-friendly deodorant that I picked up from one of the many abundant health food stores in my area.

With Love and Gratitude,

Jeremiah

By: Eliot Burdett

Eliot Burdett — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:49:00 +0000

Thanks Mike, Will check it out. Eliot.,

By: AxillaryMike

AxillaryMike — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:26:00 +0000

Good going Eliot for taking the safe road on deodorant. Deodorants can contain suppressive chemicals including alum salts and aluminum. Women have a lower internal PH than men and can experience congested lymph nodes closest to the armpit from alum salt cluster. I see the young guys are using the new commercial deodorants by the breakout in the sides of their necks and headaches. With all the alum salts in air water foods it’s no wonder we are stinking up the planet. Metals smell coming out of our bodies like a terminal of a car battery. Take a break and use Herbalix Detox deodorant to absorb at night the junk in the underam and experience a cleaner body and you won’t lose sleep over the fact that you will return to a cleaner you. the nighttime deodorant takes a few weeks to get the junk out but you’ll be way ahead of your friends.

By: Eliot Burdett

Eliot Burdett — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:36:10 +0000

Haha that's funny LouAnn…I often joke that having Alzheimers might make it easier to live through my daughter's teen years Thanks for reading and your kind words.
Eliot

By: Karryfamily

Karryfamily — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:49:57 +0000

love your blogs–but am looking forward to having Alzheimer's–think it just may be a way of getting a new life without all that baggage of knowing all your relatives. just kidding. by the way I am one of your relatives in a way, kind of, sort of. truly, Eliot–your blog is really interesting and Mr. Hill is one of my favourite guys too.- Aunt LouAnn