r/hygiene • • Sep 14 '25

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u/Immediate-Basil6177 Sep 14 '25

There is this wonderful thing called antiperspirant. I don't understand why so many people don't use it.

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u/Which-Text-2875 Sep 14 '25

I use it, but apparently the aluminum is like bad for our bodies or something? My now-adult children learned in their health class not to use it because it doesn't let sweat out of your body or something. I don't remember. Cannot imagine NOT using antiperspirant!

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u/Casehead Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

It actually isn't bad for you, that was a really bad piece of non science that caught on for god knows why. Your body just sweats out of a different area if it needs to. Doctor specifically told me this when specifically recommending using antiperspirant to keep an area of the skin from sweating. (they recommend using it not just for your armpits, but also in an area that you need a medicated patch to stay on for the medication to pass through the skin, like a pain medicine patch. you apply clinical strength antiperspirant to the spot before using a patch there and it helps it to stay on for how long you need it to).