Just a warning though. Aluminum antiperspirants can cause skin irritation and absolutely cause aluminum salt stains on clothes (bright yellow pits on white shirts).
Also there is a correlation link between aluminum levels and Alzheimer’s, but nobody had proved causation so it may be an unrelated coincidence.
Easier just to shower, scrub well, and use deoderant. That is usually enough for the average person, just not heavy sweating people or people in very hot environments.
PSA: Also wash your clothes (without fabric softener) and stop buying polyester. Much of the “BO stink” is from sweating in polyester clothes and not washing them for a few more wears. Plastic doesn’t absorb and dry out the bacteria so it is much much worse than cotton, linen, or wool. Also use vinegar as fabric softener, it doesn’t smell after the final rinse cycle and it doesn’t leave a waxy film on your clothes that keeps the bacteria nice and comfortable like formula softener.
Aluminium antiperspirant stains are actually pretty easy to remove if you soak your shirts in something acidic - I use sulphamic acid (commonly sold as the main ingredient in coffee machine descaler, so pretty safe, and not as smelly as vinegar) and just leave things for a day, then any residue that’s left just comes out in the wash. The reason it stains is that long-acting antiperspirant seals the aluminium salts in tiny wax beads which break open over the course of the day to keep releasing more, and wax needs a lot of exposure to soapy water to dissolve, but it’s protected by the aluminium salts jellifying when wet, and they in turn are protected from rinsing away by the surrounding wax. Acids can attack both.
Just a warning though. Aluminum antiperspirants can cause skin irritation and absolutely cause aluminum salt stains on clothes (bright yellow pits on white shirts).
Also there is a correlation link between aluminum levels and Alzheimer’s, but nobody had proved causation so it may be an unrelated coincidence.
Easier just to shower, scrub well, and use deoderant. That is usually enough for the average person, just not heavy sweating people or people in very hot environments.
PSA: Also wash your clothes (without fabric softener) and stop buying polyester. Much of the “BO stink” is from sweating in polyester clothes and not washing them for a few more wears. Plastic doesn’t absorb and dry out the bacteria so it is much much worse than cotton, linen, or wool. Also use vinegar as fabric softener, it doesn’t smell after the final rinse cycle and it doesn’t leave a waxy film on your clothes that keeps the bacteria nice and comfortable like formula softener.
Aluminium antiperspirant stains are actually pretty easy to remove if you soak your shirts in something acidic - I use sulphamic acid (commonly sold as the main ingredient in coffee machine descaler, so pretty safe, and not as smelly as vinegar) and just leave things for a day, then any residue that’s left just comes out in the wash. The reason it stains is that long-acting antiperspirant seals the aluminium salts in tiny wax beads which break open over the course of the day to keep releasing more, and wax needs a lot of exposure to soapy water to dissolve, but it’s protected by the aluminium salts jellifying when wet, and they in turn are protected from rinsing away by the surrounding wax. Acids can attack both.