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How Antiperspirants Work
This text takes a look at the correct way to use antiperspirants.
Using this product won't mess with your body's natural and healthy sweating process, as it's only meant to be applied really specifically to small areas like your armpits, forehead, face, neck, hands, or feet. It's also a load of old tosh that if you sweat less in these areas, you'll just end up sweating more somewhere else.
Antiperspirants with aluminium salts in them work by narrowing your sweat glands, which gives you effective and long-lasting protection against dampness from sweat:
Your skin stays dry – you don't sweat!
Sweat on its own doesn't really smell of anything. The pong actually comes from what bacteria living on your skin chuck out when they break down the sweat.
Using antiperspirants has another handy side effect because by reducing how much you sweat, you're also starving those bacteria of their food. Without that moisture, the bacteria can't multiply or turn your sweat into those niffy things like butyric acid and formic acid.
By stopping the bacteria from growing, it reliably prevents that nasty smell from developing:
No nasty sweat smell – you won't pong!
First published on: 12.05.2011
Updated: 27.05.2025

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