Deodorant

I don't glisten, I sweat.  Like an athlete, sometimes, even though I'm not one.  When I first started to purchase antiperspirant/deodorant for myself ( I don't count that first yucky baby powder-scented trial size of Secret all us fifth-grade girls got in our Puberty 101 class) I picked out one of the Adidas kind.  It was amazing and smelled cool, crisp, and clean-- like soap, but better.  I think it was called "arctic fresh" or "mountain breeze".  Alas, one day I went to my local CVS and there were no Adidas deodorants to be found.  I was devastated.  That sounds like a hyperbole, I know, but I was very fond of that product and to have it taken away from me without warning made me very unhappy.  How could they do this to me?  My one true love, the one inanimate object that would never let me down!  Ah, but I survived and moved on.

Over the years I have tried various other brands, and currently I am in possession of four sticks of antiperspirant/deodorant.  Why four?  Well, why not.  It's nice to have options, and deodorant isn't as expensive as scented body lotions or perfumes. My favorite of the lot is my small Degree for men invisible stick antiperspirant and deodorant in cool rush.  It smells cool, clean, and just a little spicy.  I don't use it to stop from sweating so much as for its scent, and sometimes I'll just apply it to my underarms when I have to go out and I either don't have enough time to shower or I'm just too lazy to bother.  The other two are Degree for women in Pure Satin and Dove for women in the original clean scent.  You know how pregnant women have weird, strong cravings and sometimes can't stand even the smell of a certain food?  I think premenopausal women are like that, too; my female friends and I crave certain foods depending on the week in the month, depending on our hormone levels.  Most of the time I favor my Degree for men, but sometimes I just can't stand the way it smells and that's when I reach for one of the other deodorants.  Both have soft, slightly floral scents (most female-oriented body products smell this way) and sometimes they smell better to me.  Or sometimes I don't want to smell like anything at all, and I reach for my fourth stick of deodorant, which is Secret's pH balanced unscented deodorant.

But sometimes I use that deodorant on somewhere other than my armpits.  In the summer I'll rub some on my inner thighs, á la Pauly Bleeker from the movie "Juno" so that it's not so uncomfortable when the rub against each other:



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