I'm using am aluminum free one at the minute called Soft and Dry.

No idea why aluminum was in underarm in the first place but it smelled nice.

I thought I was the only one who had deodorant issues.

In the UK I always used Sure spray on and have always hated any kind of roll ons.. here i'm having to use those hard stick ones and i've been using Degree which I asumed was Sure as it has the same tick on the front. Works well too

Are some people using deodorant and some using antiperspirant? There is a difference, right?

Antiperspirant actually stops you from perspiring and deodorant masks the sweaty smell but your pits can still be damp. Or am I wrong?

Maybe deodorant doesn't have aluminum but antiperspirant does?

Deodorant is just perfume.

The aluminium in antiperspirants reacts with the skin and effectively blocks the pores, so sweat can't get out.

Nobody needs to use smelly antiperspirants.

Ok so I have been to the Bodyshop and made a purchase for $5 for deodorant. How much is it in England?
I am slightly (very) outraged right now. There is a Aloe face pack there, you know the kind - teeeny weeeeeny bottles of moisturiser, cleanser etc etc in cute bag that had UK and US/Canada price tag on it. Its GBP12 (sorry no pound sign on this keyboard) and $25 in US/Canada.
Do the peeps at Bodyshop honestly believe you earn double in Canada than you do in the UK???!! I wont be buying it!

£2.50 in UK or £2.00 for a refill. At todays exchange rate it works out £3.08, so not double but more expensive!

Still reasonable for a deodorant I think, but hope everything else is not more expensive over there

They can be sneaky and duplicitous bastards over here. Happened to me with a tube of wasabi paste. Was over double price. Although we did buy it as the wife is allergic to chocolate. But still.

But to me the exchange rate is irrelevant as we earn dollars and spend dollars

What about people that have to work with you or those in the queue with you at any point in time?

I personally use the clear (non scented) ones, considering the amount of time I spend away with work in the not so desirable environments at times.

Don't get me started on that one:curse:

I have written a strongly worded email to Bodyshop asking why they think we earn double here. No doubt it will get me absolutely nowhere but I feel better and I have been able to tell them that I will NOT be purchasing their products anymore (no matter how much coconut and lime they stick in it)

When I started working here, part of my contract said that I wasn't supposed to use scented deodorants, since I work with the public and I thought it was totally exaggerated. They have these scent-free policies all over the place, especially in hospitals. http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/hspro...cent_free.html

Now I've got so used to using scent-free shampoo and deodorant that when I visited Europe I noticed that the smell of perfume had a nauseating effect on me...


PS> in summer there is an additional bonus of scent-free cosmetics: mosquitoes and flies usually swarm those people who use perfumed products, ( especially hairspray and conditioners ) and leave me alone

Am I the only one who thinks this thread should be merged with the Occupy uprising thread?

That brings to mind the time myself and a Brit girl-friend went to the city and were delighted to see a Bodyshop. In we walked expecting similar to UK prices and products we knew.

Well we found the products we knew, but at triple and even quadruple prices.

When we questioned the shop girl - who turned out to be Italo-American, her explanation was that "beauty conscious women in Italy are used to spending money and would never believe that a 2 euro product could work because cheap means nasty and hopeless."

We were amazed that they didn't have products and advertising aimed at the student market given that we were in a Uni city, and not just snobby Italian women.

They have replied to say that different markets have different prices (oh really?) and that they have to pay to import the goods. Wow - thats expensive import costs.
Naturally I paid tax on top here, but the GBP2.50 deodorant has tax included in England.... ggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

oh well - time to search out an alternative