Allery to Deoderant?

**dolphin** · 03-29-2005, 02:23 AM

I have red circles around my armpits. Just the outer edges. It is itchy too and dry.

It started last week and they only thing I can pin down that I've done different is buy a new can of deoderant. It's just "Sure". So now I have to go buy some new deorderant tomorrow and see if that is it.

Does anyone else have allergies to different deoderants? I've never had a problem before but with all my health problems it seems I get new stuff nearly every week.

**Kimberlina** · 03-29-2005, 08:48 AM

DH has problems with different deodorants. We have had to just work through (trial and error) a bunch of different varieties to see what will work. Otherwise he is terribly itchy. Degree deodorant was the worst for him. I was buying him Almay hypoallergenic, until I coudn't find it anywhere. I think he is okay with Old Spice High Endurance, and that is what we are using now fo him.

**dolphin** · 03-29-2005, 09:34 AM

Kimberlina thank you so much for the information. I thought I had bought just another variety of Sure but I just went and looked in the cabinet and it is "Degree"! Says it is body-heat activated and is the fresh oxygen fragrance.

This is going in trash immediately!

**Kimberlina** · 03-29-2005, 09:51 AM

Wow- that stuff is probably pretty allergenic, then. He hasn't had nearly the problem with any other brand that he had with Degree. I think since I couldn't get the Almay anymore, I have bought him nearly every variety EXCEPT degree, and he has been, for the most part, fine.

I just use some cheap brand (from Walmart) that comes in a pink tube because I love the way it smells- it is coconut lime.

**malakito** · 03-29-2005, 12:18 PM

dolphin,

My experience may be helpful to you.

I found out about 5 years ago that I am allergic to something called "triclosan". My wife was in the hospital in labor with our second child and I was for some reason nervous so I was washing my hands like every twenty minutes. That afternoon after our child was born, I noticed the backs of my hand were all red and had welts all over them. It turned out that the hospital soap was "anti-bacterial" and it was the antibacterial agent -- triclosan -- that was the problem with me.

I later realized / discovered that anti-perspirants / deoderants also often have this same ingredient -- triclosan -- in them. They were causing problems on the skin in my armpits, so I switched to a kind without the stuff and now I am fine.

Triclosan seems to be an antibacterial agent because it is in a lot of the newer antibacterial pump soaps and the deoderants as I mentioned. It's listed on the ingredient lists, so if you figure out that's what it is it will be easy to avoid it in the future.

HTH,

malakito