Ever since one company put aluminum in their deodorant to keep the perspiration at bay as equally as the odor, all companies followed. Every drugstore or supermarket search ends up with far too many ingredient reads and only one find (check the options at your nearest Target or drugstore and tell me that Old Spice isn't the only brand without the ingredient). But what to do if you don't want the masculine scent and less of the aluminum?

Until fairly recently, you would have to seek out an organic body products store or hit the net (Tom's of Maine is a popular pick) for a lengthy search. A lot of the times, the brand doesn't even mention aluminum contents until you flip to the ingredient list.
When Shecky's Beauty Night Out came around town, one of the vendors was The Body Shop. They showcased some new scents for lotions and body washes, but what really caught my eye was the aloe vera deodorant.

Recently, I woke up to a small lump under my arm. I knew it was an inflamed lymph node, because that's usually what happens when I get a bad cold. But I wasn't sick! I was horrified. I was already thinking a million things that could possibly be wrong. Set up a doctor's appointment pronto and started researching my deodorants. My mother scolded my bad habit of not washing off my deodorants before sleep and my thoughts were racing.

Fast forward to the doctor looking at me like a loon and telling me it was nothing, and just another way of my body getting ready for the monthly gift. Whew! (Sorry for all the extra information y'all!). But I was still stuck on researching my deodorants.

I've read often about the antiperspirants that have aluminum contents and whether or not they lead to illnesses and cancer. The information out there has no final answer on the topic, so it's not necessarily black and white. (Check out cancer.gov FAQ page on the topic here). Considering the information and my nasty habit of not washing off the deodorant at night, I figured I'd be better off finding something that tackles odor and lets my sweat be. If you must know, I sweat a lot under any inkling of heat as is, so having dry pits wouldn't help the rest of me much.

During my search in drugstores, I couldn't find too many deodorants that weren't doubling down with antiperspirant duties. The few that I found were for men and weren't available in an unscented version. So I hit the net and found a surprisingly large selection with decent prices. Here are a few:

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What do you use to beat the funk and stay fresh?

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