Dr. Bronners and Crystal Salt Deodorant will take care of 95% of your problems.

As to the need to look pretty, be like Palin and get your makeup permanently tattooed on your face.

Is that stuff legit? Using "Crystal Deodorant" seems like a total new age scam to me. Just as a rule, I try to never rely on anything that functions via crystal magic.

I've never personally used the stuff, but it would be more fair to call it Salt Deodorant. The "Crystal" part is more just the scientific term for it.

Check this: http://www.bodycrystal.com.au/faq.htm

Not sure why it's any more fair to call it Salt Deoderant. It's made out of crystalline salt, hence crystal. It works well to make odor not happen, but if you tend to sweat a lot it's not gonna help that. I don't know if anyone still sells them in the baseball sized "rocks", but those fucking last forever. Serious value.

Also, a five year old article citing one study doesn't mean indicate that deodorant will "probably give [you] cancer." I know you dislike research, but even a quick peak at wiki will show you that actual research is leaning heavily against the persistent antiperspirant=cancer rumors.

It's astonishing how people care so much about ingredients, yet smoke those American Spirits. Yep, those organic tobacco plants don't foul your lungs...

the crystal salts stuff doesn't help with sweat at all because it isn't an antiperspirant, it's just a deodorant. I think it works ok but only if you shower every day, which I do not. If you want to stop sweating you have to get Botox in your arm pits.

A Cat,

I linked to the older New Scientist article rather than Wikipedia because a) I like New Scientist and b) that article allows you to click through and read the abstract of the actual study that was done and everywhere else I found just discussed the study without letting you read any of it.

If you're interested in reading up on the research, I thought the American Cancer Website (http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factshe…) had a pretty good rundown of a couple studies - but you have to go elsewhere to dig up the journal articles about those studies yourself.

In the meantime, can you please write me a grant for a 2-year investigation of Crystal Salt Deodorant? k, thnx.

Oh, cool. An easy click-through interface is way more important than accurate info. Carry on.

The annoying thing about this is that it's hard to know what's safe and what isn't. Pthalates in fingernail polish are really dangerous to a gal's future offspring. But can you figure out which brands have them and which don't? Nope, because they don't have to include it on the label. I hope an Obama FDA can be persuaded to include ingredients (and downright warnings) on cosmetics.

This opened a can o' worms, as a lot of women I care about have been having miscarriage after devastating miscarriage. I know at least two of them used absolute tons of hairspray and makeup, as they grew up in Texas in the eighties.

With more Googling, I found a database that will tell you how much your shampoo is killing you:
http://www.cosmeticdatabase.com/index.php