Sometimes, when I get nervous, I put my fingers under my arms, and then smell them. Like this! posted by miss lynnster at 9:05 AM on June 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
That tomato deodorant cream recipe seems to just be a simple soap recipe. Which means that hypothetically you could wash your entire body with your delicious tomato, salt and animal fat soap. I'd add garlic and basil. Then my pits would smell like bruschetta all day. Of course that might lead to incidents like this and I'm not sure how I'd feel about that. posted by LeeJay at 9:20 AM on June 18, 2007
ODiV, just cut 'em off. It only hurts for a little while... posted by notsnot at 10:04 AM on June 18, 2007
Remember KILLBO PROJECT? The author discovered how to remove strong male body odor for weeks (or at least many days.) His recipe: wash all your shirts with a small amount of bleach, then sterilize your armpits with anti-fungal cream (or just use Michum.) It works. Interesting that near-boiling temperatures in clothes dryers don't stop the odor-causing bacteria. I bet they're thermophiles. Also interesting that clothing is a vector, and just as many suspect, going shirtless makes you less stinky.
See:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/killbo.com posted by billb at 10:13 AM on June 18, 2007
"Companies spend all that money and time on advertising how exotic it smells, but they don't do enough to warn you of the dangers."
I ran the math. Considering that this seems to be the only death by deodorant that year, I worked out how much time the companies should spend warning people:
Each standard deodorant ad is, let's say, 30 seconds.
Let's guess there are 6 ads per hour.
Let's guess that deodorant ads run in 12 hours of each day (they probably don't run a lot during late night infomercial time, etc.)
That means that, in one year, 788,400 seconds of deodorant ads show on any channel. That's 219 hours of deodorant advertisements.
This kid died. He is one of 60,776,238 people living in the UK.
Let's say half of them use deodorant (Babies don't. Children don't. Hippies don't. Linux users don't.)
That makes 30,388,119 deodorant users.
One death out of 30,388,119 people is 0.00000329076%.
If, then, 0.00000329076% of the time used on deodorant ads is used to describe the dangers of inhalation, that means that, every year, 2.59 seconds of advertising time should be dedicated to describing their dangers.
So she's probably right. I've never seen an ad spend the requisite 2.59 seconds to warn people. But, then again, I haven't watched the 4,380 hours of television that it would take to catch that 2.59 second blip. posted by bugbread at 10:37 AM on June 18, 2007
Miss Lynnster - that's from one of our fav-o-rite SNL skits. Luv-it! posted by winks007 at 10:43 AM on June 18, 2007
ODiv, mee too. I hate them and my wife says she is going to make an appointment and have them removed/burned off.
NOTSNOT, are you kidding? posted by winks007 at 10:45 AM on June 18, 2007
Skin tags? The bestest way to get rid of them is to tie them off with a bit of dental floss (for hard-to-reach places, either have someone help or prepare a slip-loop that can be tightened with one hand). They fall off overnight and the floss acts as a tag so you can pick it up and discard.
My armpit problems lie more along the lines of clogged pores rather than bits of skin that decide to go renegade. posted by porpoise at 10:58 AM on June 18, 2007
Well, that's okay. As long as you can pronounce it correctly.
I never say bruschetta out loud. I can't handle the stress. posted by LeeJay at 10:58 AM on June 18, 2007
winks007: I doubt he's kidding. I ripped one half off by accident and then finished the job with scissors. It didn't hurt that much. I didn't think of it until later, but I totally should have chugged some whiskey from the bottle. Not for the pain, just because that's what all those hard core guys do in the movies when they're performing surgery on themselves.
I mostly don't do anything about the tags because they don't really bother me. Maybe I'll save it for my wedding night!
The skin-tag free me, not the actual removal of the tags, memorable as that would undoubtedly be. posted by ODiV at 11:27 AM on June 18, 2007 [1 favorite]
Not a single link to an armpit fetish site?
Mefi, you disappoint me. posted by nightchrome at 6:05 PM on June 18, 2007
Of course he's not kidding; you just cut them off. It hurts for maybe 2 seconds and bleeds for about 30 seconds and by tomorrow, you can't even see the spot.
But, yeah, you defintely want to chug some whiskey out of the bottle, because it's what real men do when performing surgery on themselves. It's tradition. (You could also pour some over the wound, but that would hurt like hell, so you might want to skip that part.) posted by unrepentanthippie at 7:55 PM on June 18, 2007
The smelly link mentions the two types of sweat glands, the watery eccrine and the gooey apocrine glands. We don't get the aprocrine glands until we reach puberty, which is why kids don't need deodorants. Deodorants keep the bacteria from growing in the aprocrine sweat, which is what really causes the smell, and antiperspirants actually plug the glands, which leads some of us, like porpose (above) and me to get clogged (and infected) pores, which is why we only use deodorants.
The most interesting thing I learned from this link is that the breast is nothing more than an aprocrine sweat gland.
What, no one is going to recommend Certain-Dri? posted by nenequesadilla at 11:20 PM on June 21, 2007
Never had an infected 'pit gland that I can recall, but I can't help thinking that downregulating a natural excretory gland might be a bad idea: It's designed to excrete. It doesn't just go away if it isn't excreting. And maybe it was excreting something that really needed excreting. And then factor in that the way you downregulate it is by clogging its duct with an aluminum compound ... yeah, deodorant only for me, too. posted by eritain at 5:53 AM on June 22, 2007
eye of newt - so have you found anything to prevent clogging and subsequent infection? posted by porpoise at 9:33 AM on July 3, 2007
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