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when i was 14 you had to have lynx aerosols or you'd be laughed out of the changing rooms after PE. these days i tend to use those click-click cream things, some of which work much better than others but can i remember which when i'm in superdrug grrr.

also you sometimes read silly articles in the weekend papers or whatever about strange deodorant bars or whatever that work for a week at a time (don't these people ever wash?). anyone ever used any of these?

― toby, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's even more silly is the ads which claim that there are good chemical reasons why men and women should use different deodorants. I notice, however, that they say that a woman's skin may be more alkaline than a man's, not that it is, so I always mouth, "Or it may be more acidic" when the ad comes on the TV.

Although the idea of a deodorant that lasts a week sounds silly, I'd imagine it would actually be quite useful for backpackers and people going on camping holidays!

At my school the only reason why those aerosol deodorants were favoured was because, aerosol + zippo lighter = FLAME THROWER!

― MarkH, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sources close to me have revealed that Mitchum has dropped its unappealing tagline "For Problem Perspiration" in favour of "So powerful you can even skip a day's application!" And. presumably, a day's washing.

― Nick, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Those Lynx aerosols were absolutely lethal! Every asthmatic kid at school would start reaching for their asthma pump as soon as boys started spraying those in the changing room. Grossly overpriced as well. It worked out at about one week's pocket money per spray.

― Trevor, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lynx Tempest = guaranteed pull going out clubbing in Essex in 1994. Why I know not. Now its good old Vaseline Intensive Care.

― Will, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ask Madchen about the Lynx effect!

I use girls deodorant occasionally (ie when I had to but it from Tesco metro at the end of the road which, until recently only stocked girls deo) and it smells not much different to boys.

Now it's sure active for men (raaaaaah) which is nice and neutral.

― chris, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Two-threads cocktail: recently I got a txtmsg urging me to carry the strongest deodorant I could find at home down the pub.

― Laetitia, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

lynx- one of those scents that I associate with cheap and sleazy bars. probably these people get a whiff of lynx and are suddenly transported into a sexual frenzy just because of mental associations.

female equivalent- cool charm spray, also a good flamethrower. spray it all over the furniture and set fire to it, instant fun.

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what the fuck is Lynx? I used to sometimes use women' sdeodorat because mens remin ded me of a locker room. but then this big jerky gay weightlifter model used to hit on me and he wore it too so I had a negative association of pink skinned old man with bulgin eyes trying to make me gay.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lynx is a cheapo body spray made by Fabergé that has no anti-perspirant qualities at all. It is just a cheap stink that comes in several varieties (Lynx Africa, Lynx Oriental, Lynx Inca). Women love it, apparently. Classy birds like Madchen and my friend Suzanne love it.

― Nick, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

aersol is evil. I don't use anti-persirepant as I'm highly supscious of that alumnium crap blocking my pores and giving me cancer. I just use natural deodrant, Tom's of Maine.

― Samantha, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...anyway.

― Nick, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Although it does mean I have to fight off Madchen these days, I did buy some Lynx Africa after smelling it on the divine Ally C (a sordid scene in an underground station, I won't go into it). And it does smell very nice, but despite it saying "...combines a distinctive masculine fragrance with long lasting effective deodorant protection, to keep you feeling fresh", it does nothing of the sort.

Perhaps I could combine Right Guard Sport (ahem) with Lynx for a real lady-killing combination.

― Mark C, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sticky stuff applied under arms for insecure bourgeois fools only. Destroy all of it.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I use Dial. If I don't use stuff, I get all stinky at work, and feel like I want to throw up.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My anti-perspirant of choice was Power Stick. I was crushed when that vanished off the shelves. I have to be careful about which anti- perspirant I use because an incorrect choice will make my armpits red, itchy, irritated, and flaky, kind of like I bought Eczema In A Stick and applied it liberally to my underarms. Lately, I've had much success with Right Guard Extreme Sport (currently rockin' the FRESH BLAST scent, which as far as I can tell is practically odorless).

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Destroy all spray-on deodorants, especially Lynx. Being in the same room as someone spraying them makes my throat hurt and I feel like I can't breathe or think or anything. Destroy the Secret Clear Dry Stick I bought because it feels all grim and sticky and it doesn't seem to work as well as normal roll-ons anyway.

Is it true that buying the same brand/flavour every time makes it less effective? How?

― Rebecca, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan ditch the anti-perspriant and just go for deoderant. Thos chemicals are really irritating.

― Samantha, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate those spray thingies, I think I'm allergic to them.

― james, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

menelaus, you forgot about impulse... that godawful vanilla scent in the PE changing sheds was enough to put me off deodorant sprays for life. now i just use Nivea roll-on.

hey vegans! which are the animal friendly roll-ons?

― di, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like Right Guard Extreme Sport too, plus it feels like kinda one in the eye for The Man that I'm using it: since Extreme Sport for me = watching more than seven hours TV in a day.

― mark s, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan ditch the anti-perspriant and just go for deoderant.

I can't do that. Honestly. The few times I've used deodorants that weren't anti-perspirants, I've ended up looking like I was carrying ice under my arms.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also - the Lynx mentioned above sometimes stings (deodorant) while the Right Guard/Sure type (anti-perspirant) don't hurt at all. So block those pores with aluminium, they'll get used to it.

Insecure bourgeois? Bollocks, we just don't like people who stink, and rightly so.

― Mark C, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Underarm shaving + deodorant = AAAAAGH!

I don't sweat very much and take a bath every day, so I basically don't smell.

― suzy, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am the source close to Nick. Mitchum is bloody great. It works, and that's all I care about. I haven't tried the skip-a-day test because I'm paranoid about being smelly, even though I bath and shave under my arms every morning (pit hair = something for odour to cling to, no?). Actually, it's not paranoia. If I don't wash and apply deoderant, I start to smell and I notice it. I am amazed that some people apparently have no clue when they really, really stink.

The Lynx effect also works for me, but in a different way. Lynx Africa has something in it that makes my knees go to jelly and my lips want to snog the wearer. Fortunately, Ally C is one of the two people I know who wear it and the other being Mark C, the temptation ain't that strong :)

The only deoderants I am allergic to are the ones for sensitive skins. Weird, eh?

― Madchen, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmph. Leaves more of me for the rest of the laydeez.

― Mark C, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Lynx probably stings b/c of the alcohol content of the perfume. eww.

― Samantha, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

yes i am gay..............huh.that was the question werent it......oh well anyway........arent IPSWICH TOWN the greatest.....u must b really sad if u do these sorts of things i mean whi in there rite mind wud...............

― james stephenson, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

revive!

the particular flavor of speed stick that i've been using for years seems to be discontinued. what shall i switch to? a brief survey of the options (code red! alpine fresh! nordic fjord!) has left me confused and headachey.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone know any natural anti perspirants?

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Inaction.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't "natural antiperspirant" an oxymoron?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Regardless, Tom's of Maine makes one.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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