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> Namely, short-term ("a few weeks") use does not have long-term ("a lifetime") antibacterial and antiperspirant effects. There are a couple of sentences that

> Namely, short-term ("a few weeks") use does not have long-term ("a lifetime") antibacterial and antiperspirant effects. There are a couple of sentences that I didn't do a very good job with delivering here, but you're reading into it too much. I don't claim that 1) it has any type of significant antiperspirant effect (just that it did seem to help a little via perhaps a secondary effect) and 2) it has long term effects after you completely stop using it (just that now I don't need to use it as consistently as before). Maybe I was a bit overzealous delivering some of that in a few posts here. My only real claim is that it works for me, and others, better than the regular stuff. You should try it.

michaelcampbell 14y ago
> I don't claim that ... 2) it has long term effects after you completely stop using it (just that now I don't need to use it as consistently as before). Well, no. You said.. > After a week or two of this, you're done. Your sweat lessens, and becomes clear and odorless. > No more deodorant is required after this. Just shower and apply some soap to your skin. You're quite clear in claiming that after a few weeks of the salt rock, you don't need to use it, or any other. That said, I use this stuff too because my armpit skin is sensitive to certain deodorants and gets red and itchy if I use them. So I switch to the crystal brand for a few weeks, and it works, but it definitely does not confer any more effect than any other deodorant. I have to apply it daily, like any other.
- powertower 14y ago
  If you read the posts right after it, you'll notice I've clarified it a few times. Not that the original statement is false for me. Personally, I don't need to use the alum-salts anymore. Once the bacteria is "gone" (okay... reduced to the lower, natural levels), it's just a matter of using soap and nothing else for me. It's a sign of good health, but your results may vary. The notion that bacteria #s comes back (in a few days) to the same over-realized levels that you've grown over the previous 20+ years is ridiculous. You have natural balanced levels and types, that get augmented over time via lack of proper management. Once you kill off the extras, those #s get back to lower natural levels which are manageable by other means (soap during shower). As long as you manage those #s, they stay leveled. Maybe we're just different. Maybe we're in different environments. Etc.

michaelcampbell 14y ago

> I don't claim that ... 2) it has long term effects after you completely stop using it (just that now I don't need to use it as consistently as before). Well, no. You said.. > After a week or two of this, you're done. Your sweat lessens, and becomes clear and odorless. > No more deodorant is required after this. Just shower and apply some soap to your skin. You're quite clear in claiming that after a few weeks of the salt rock, you don't need to use it, or any other. That said, I use this stuff too because my armpit skin is sensitive to certain deodorants and gets red and itchy if I use them. So I switch to the crystal brand for a few weeks, and it works, but it definitely does not confer any more effect than any other deodorant. I have to apply it daily, like any other.

powertower 14y ago
If you read the posts right after it, you'll notice I've clarified it a few times. Not that the original statement is false for me. Personally, I don't need to use the alum-salts anymore. Once the bacteria is "gone" (okay... reduced to the lower, natural levels), it's just a matter of using soap and nothing else for me. It's a sign of good health, but your results may vary. The notion that bacteria #s comes back (in a few days) to the same over-realized levels that you've grown over the previous 20+ years is ridiculous. You have natural balanced levels and types, that get augmented over time via lack of proper management. Once you kill off the extras, those #s get back to lower natural levels which are manageable by other means (soap during shower). As long as you manage those #s, they stay leveled. Maybe we're just different. Maybe we're in different environments. Etc.