Discovering Best Deodorant

Best deodorant!! Well that depends on what you are trying to accomplish. It also depends on rather you are a man or a woman, and it even depends on your body chemistry. What works for one person may not work well for another.

If you are going to work in a small air conditioned office, you may not need as strong a deodorant as a teacher working with a bunch of active 2nd graders. And if you are a worker in a steel mill, I don't think any deodorant will be effective once you start working near the blast furnace. Which is the best type of deodorant to use; a spray, a roll-on, or a solid? This really comes down to personal preference. Some people will not use any type but a spray, while others swear that the solid is the best deodorant, while still others claim that a roll on is the best type to use.

A spray, while convenient, really is not as powerful as a solid. Some people will take the spray with them in their gym bag for when they go to the gym to work out, and use a solid deodorant at home in the morning before they go to work.

A roll-on deodorant uses a liquid. There is a ball in the top of the tube that keeps the liquid deodorant inside the container. When the ball is rotated, the liquid is transferred to your skin, and applies the deodorant to your body. When you travel, the spray and roll-on deodorants are not a good choice, they tend to leak in your bag when the airplane takes off. The solid deodorant is the better choice for traveling

Different brands of deodorant have different ingredients that will either mask or block odors coming from the body. This is where the chemistry of the deodorant interacts with the chemistry of your body, and not everyone's body chemistry is the same. Not all deodorants will be as effective for you as the next brand. You need to experiment and find which brand of deodorant works best for you. It all comes down to personal preference as to which brand of deodorant works best for you. If you're like most people, when you select one brand, you will probably stick with using it for a long time.

Deodorant For Men

What makes a deodorant more suitable for a man than a woman?. Indeed is there any real differences between the two product ranges for men and women?.There are several factors that influence this including fragrance, strength, marketing, packaging and good old personal preference. We will look at each of these factors in turn to see if there are any real differences.

Fragrance - obviously deodorant (or antiperspirant as the case may be) carries a certain fragrance and this fragrance is targeted towards a certain gender. Deodorant for men is particularly important because women are far more sensitive to smell than their male counterparts (up to 1000* more sensitive). Male fragrances tend to be stronger and more defined than female fragrances and also tend towards the earthy / musky end of the spectrum (wood, smoke, vanilla etc) whereas female products tend to be more floral (particularly lavender)

Strength - as men tend to sweat more than women when at the same levels of activity men require a deodorant that is more powerful than that for women. Deodorant for men contains more active ingredients per unit volume - this can lead to irritation of the female skin if they choose to use a male deodorant. Having said this it has actually been found that certain brands of deodorant have no difference in the levels of active ingredient between the male and female product ranges. So whereas one particular brand of male deodorant may cause skin irritation in women another brand may not.

Packaging / marketing - as in many decisions in life the choice of deodorant is influenced by fashion and what is being marketed aggressively at the time of purchase. The cosmetics / personal care industry is very marketing orientated and seems capable of dreaming up almost endless ways to entice us to buy their products. It is probably marketing rather than any other factor that determines which type and brand of deodorant we purchase. Who can forget the power of the Lynx / Axe adverts that appeal to the male basic instincts by promising that simply by using a liberal squirt of their deodorant you will become irresistible to women!.

Of course the above factors hold true not only for deodorants but also for antiperspirants ( just to recap: deodorants work by masking or neutralising the odour that arises from sweating whereas antiperspirants work by attempting to prevent sweating in the first place - either by inhibiting the pores or other methods). Therefore you can apply the same criteria to antiperspirants when deciding if you need a male specific product.

In conclusion there are no absolute factors that determine that a deodorant can only be used for a man or a woman - it is more down to personal taste, preferences and the not insignificant influence of the cosmetics industry marketing machine. So, apart from strength issues (which may or may not exist), just go with the product you feel best with - even if it is just because it is what all your friends are currently wearing.