Originally Posted by Points Scrounger
Solid ones are a single piece, with a plastic screw stick through the center to advance the remaining deodorant forward as necessary.
Gel ones have a solid plastic "grid" at the top; the gel oozes through there when the deodorant-advance mechanism is deployed.
My question comes through because as of today - third time that I have traveled since 8/10 - I was informed that TSA consider all deodorants to be gel deodorants, unlike the previous two trips. They confiscated my solid stick deodorant at IAH today despite my best efforts to explain the difference between solids and gels. When did this change? Or does each airport get to make its own rules?
It is getting progressively more difficult to maintain any degree of respect for people that I should want doing their jobs.