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[wellinghall]

[Poll #1197916]

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[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming that the inclusion of the word "Just" in the last option makes it mutually exclusive from the other answers in your poll..?

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

You could potentially have multiple routines, and do different things depending on (say) whether you'll be leaving the house or not.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Or, getting dressed in the morning v going to bed in the evening.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

I nearly always have my baths or showers in the evening, and thus I don't put anything on at all.

I should start putting some moisture cream on my arms but haven't gotten around to starting that new routine yet.

Isn't this rather a personal line of questioning though?!

[segh.livejournal.com]

Pyjamas.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Talc used to feature, before the whole carcinogen thing. Of course now there's the same concern over antiperspirants.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Um ... I hadn't heard about talc being a carcinogen ...

*worries*

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

Try a deodorant that is not an antiperspirant. I use
Trust, which the local branch of Boots stocks. It is overly expensive, but works better for me than anything else I have tried so far.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have switched to aluminium-free non-antiperspirant deodorants - it's all covered by the same option on Welly's poll, so I ticked that box. It's a shame though, because (TMI) I tend to get very sweaty in hot weather and would rather have been able to keep using something that helps with that ;-(

[bunn.livejournal.com]

They are all crap aren't they. I reckon I've tried most of the brands available now, and not one of them keeps you from getting stinky under the slightest provocation.

I went back to antiperspirant ones, I reckoned cancer was a maybe, but a hernia from carrying the enormous mounds of stinky washing I was generating was becoming a certainty. Also, not very green having to wash everything you are wearing every single day. I shall die a martyr to my principles. Well, that woudl be apart from the non-animal-testing ones, antiperspirants only seem to come in Evil Flavour.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

We don't use antiperspirants containing auluminium either, and I can recommend (as an alternative to alitalf's, which doesn't mean I don't think his rec. is just as good):

Yves Rocher Hamamelis (mild, inexpensive, good for youngsters, and when you don't need much)
Thursday Plantation Tea Tree (more expensive, but works better for hot weather/heavier duty needs or whatnot)
some of the Weleda stuff (more expensive and hard to get near here)

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

A quick google brings up this link, along with many many others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talc#Safety

I first became aware of this when expecting El, and discovered that they were now recommending avoiding using talcum powder on babies. I am annoyed because it seems, like tobacco, to be one of those things where there has been evidence that it is/may be dangerous for quite a long time, but that knowledge did not become widespread among the general public until much later (and in this case has not yet become so.)

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

I agree, it's not been that widely publicised. I did know about talc not being recommended (not for carcinogenic reasons so much as simple respiratory ones) when mine were little though but I probably just happened upon that info.

I sometimes use a bit of talc in hot weather, but try to avoid breathing too much in. Like with antiperspirants, I think as an adult if you want to use these things occasionally for a specific reason that's unlikely to cause you major harm (cf. aren't many things we like to eat or do carcinogenic or otherwise bad for us?), whereas it might be very wise to cut down using them daily, given the evidence.

Aluminium is arguably implicated in Parkinson's as well (as far as I remember) - consequently my family hasn't been using aluminium pans for eons as well as some of us choosing against aluminium toiletry products.

[chainmailmaiden]

I think it has mainly been linked to ovarian cancer so you should be fine, unless there's something you haven't told us... ;-)

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

And ointments prescribed by the doc for skin problems.

I too am not completely sanguine about antiperspirants, and I have found a deodorant that is not antiperspirant, and seems more effective as a deodorant than any other I have tried.

[sally_maria]

Actually it should really be just nightclothes - my hair takes too long to dry to have showers in the morning.

[rustica.livejournal.com]

Me, too - or at least that's how I've answered this poll. If I have my bath in the morning I do put on deodorent as well as clothes before leaving the house.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

The question I want to know the answer to: what does Wellinghall do with the data from all these polls? Particularly this one!

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

This is obviously how actuaries form their assumptions on life expectancy - it depends upon whether or not you use talcum powder or anti-perspirants.

[estiel.livejournal.com]

Observing the chemical underarms crowd. Wow. Did you know that vegetarians do not have body odor? Really.