Do other people have this same problem? I can't find deodorant that will not make white marks on the underarm of my black sleeveless blouse. Do you have tips or do you have a brand that leaves no white residue?
Thanks!

travelgoddess Please call Browns Cleaners in Santa Monica. One of my sons was very concerned about sweat stains and I know that they gave him very specific instructions re: underarm deodorants. Unfortunately, I don't remember the instructions, but my son says that their advice was great. Ask to speak with Lois or Miriam.
http://www.montanaave.com/browns/

Mitchum Cool Dry doesn't leave a white residue. I've found it a little less effective than some brands in terms of odor/wetness protection (maybe 85% effective rather than 99%) but the trade-off for no residue is worth it.

There is a gel that is also good for leaving no residue but I prefer the texture of the Cool Dry product.

I can vouch for the Lady Mitchum gel. That stuff really works and is worth the extra cents!

Here's a tip: don't buy white solid anti-perspirants. There are many clear gel anti-perspirants from which to choose. I like Secret Platinum clear gel.

I've asked for suggestions for deodorants that don't leave white streaks before too. Here are the responses I got:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=337015

You're up early, letiole! Early bird gets the worm.

I slept in! My body seems to naturally be on East Coast time.

I'm sure you have friends scattered up and down the east coast. I think your body is telling you to visit them. ^

I use Dove antiperspirant as it's the only one that doesn't make my skin peel. The "invisible solid" definitely leaves marks, but the one I bought recently had a sample attached of their new product called Ultimate Clear, which they claim won't. Then again, they advertise this with pictures of women in pastel tops.... It's still a white solid, so I'm a little skeptical, but will report back when I have a chance to try it.

Doesn't exactly solve the problem, but I just remembered my favorite little find called GalPal. They're sponges that remove all trace of deoderant marks from your clothes. I love them.

This is what they are:
http://www.drugstore.com/products/pr...aram=xsp169321

Hi! Just popped into this forum from the main page as a man I lack the key requirement for posting here, but I may be able to add something to your discussion.

For years I sufferred from excessive sweating, particularly around the armpits and hands. This was so bad that even on cool days my underarms would be drenched, causing large sweat patches, and could feel the drips down my shirt from my armpits.

This was very embarrassing for me, and particularly at work where I have a stressful professional career, and being sealed indoors in the UK's notoriously poor air conditioning did not help.

The sweat on the hands was particularly a problem during anxious moments like an interview when dry hands really count towards a good first impression, but even when alone and calm my hands were rarely dry. At school and college my exam papers were always curled up from the heat of my hands, and in exams I had to put a ruler under my writing hand to stop smudging of the ink.

I should add that I am an otherwise healthy twentysomething, enjoy the gym, not overweight and have no other health issues, and have always been scrupulously clean with excellent personal hygeine.

Through trial and error I learned to control the sweating by cutting down on certain foods, caffeine and sugar in particular, and eating a good wholesome breakfast (the sweating was always worse in the mornings, but helped by having a full stomach), keeping in well ventilated areas, avoiding over exertion and by wearing cooling cotton shirts and linen pants/trousers.

As you can imagine, commuting on a crowded, poorly ventilated unairconditioned tube train in high summer was a horrid way for me to start and end my day.

Thankfully, I was lucky rarely to be plagued by smelly sweat, so odor was hardly ever a problem. I soon learned that there are two sorts of spray - anti perspirant and deoodorant. Though ideally you need a combination of both if your perspiration causes odor (as an aside in the uk ladies are said to "glow", men "perspire" and animals "sweat"...!) you can learn to control it by the most appropriate one, depending whether it is odor or dampness which afflicts you.

As you can imagine, staining was for me a real problem, both because the antiperspirants marked all my shirts leaving the underarms sometimes stained and brittle after a number of months use necesitating expensive new shirts on a regular basis.

I found that regular talcum powder/baby powder was actually best as a low irritant absorber of underarm dampness, but this only worked when my underarms were covered and would not work for the specific problem raised by the OP (as a man, the balck sleeveless look is not all that common..!).

Anyway, to cut a long story short, when I was about 22 I worked out using the nascent internet I had a condition called hyperhydrosis and having considered botox injections, beta blocking drugs, and even a radical surgery which in those days involved collapsing a lung and invasive surgery which involved entering through the rib cage, I was getting desperate. So you can see how serious I felt the problem was.

Eventually I plucked up the courage to see my doctor, waiting for an early spring day when I could visit wearing shorts and a T-shirt even though it was only 65 degrees outside. My anxiety about addressing this problem was huge, and my over active sweat was a real problem as I sat in front of my doctor and explained this issues which had plagued me since my teenage years and was getting worse.

He suggested a topical treatment called Anhydrol Forte available in the UK, and also a similar one called Perspirex both of which contain aluminium chloride hexahydrate. I think if you search for the ingredients you would find a similar product in the US.

Well, this stuff changed my life. I applied it for seven evenings straight and by the end of it all my sweating on my palms and underarms stopped. Totally stopped. To the point that I hardly even wear more than a light dusting of talc nowadays.

If you have a lot of black tops, this stuff would be ideal as it would mean you did not have to wear traditional short term anti perspirant. No staining.

I just re-apply every month or so now, more in the summer months, and it works great. It can be a little scratchy for the first few minutes of application, but it is worth it. It acts like a permanent barrier, and is basically a concentrated form of the stuff you get in regular daily application products.

Aluminium chloride may not be the healthiest stuff to have in your system, but for me the benefits have outweighed any downsides; I have a great job now (interview confidence returned once I could shake hands!) and relationships became a lot easier when I could hold hands and not constantly worry about overheating.

I have girlfriends who also swear by clear Lady Mitchum which is a traditional daily application antiperspirant.

I hope that sharing this rather personal story may be of use to others who might suffer the same problem, and also to those with the rather less annoying (but nonetheless important!) issue of stained black blouses and other garments.

Maybe a little backwards BUT....

I put my black blouse/top/sweater/ etc. on FIRST; then reach inside & underneath to apply deoderant

I find that works for sleeved tops, but not for sleeveless, where you can still end up rubbing deodorant on the armholes of your blouse afterwards if you move at all. Maybe I'm just putting too much on?

Analise, is the above one unscented? Someone else had suggested Mitchum Gel. I checked today and it comes in Shower fresh or Powder fresh, has anyone seen the Mitchum Clear Gel unscented?