Comments on: Analyzing Aluminum in Antiperspirants: Hazard or Hoax?

By: How to Make Homemade Deodorant

How to Make Homemade Deodorant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:01:37 +0000

[...] For more factual information and citations for this dismal list, see Analyzing Aluminum in Antiperspirants: Hazard or Hoax? [...]

By: CatholicMom.com » Columnists Katie Kimball » Respect Life by Katie Kimball

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:01:35 +0000

[...] I’m writing letters about soap. I’m researching antiperspirants. I’m teaching folks how to feed their kids healthy foods. But other kids are being killed, [...]

By: crunchycon

crunchycon — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:39:49 +0000

I’ve been using a variant of this for a while, and it’s worked well (I live in a warm, humid climate, though I work in an office environment — aside from my lunchtime walks, I’m not sweating buckets, so YMMV). One addition I’ve made is about 5-10 drops of lavender essential oil (you could also use tea tree oil). These have antibacterial properties, and bacteria is what causes underarm odor. It’s a backup for when the baking soda fails. Hope this helps!

By: Anne at Catholic Mommy Brain

Anne at Catholic Mommy Brain — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:09:55 +0000

I just shared it at a dinner party tonight

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:03:41 +0000

Anne, I know…one of my friends actually had people doing it at her birthday dinner party! Ha!

By: Anne at Catholic Mommy Brain

Anne at Catholic Mommy Brain — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:01:35 +0000

THAT GARLIC EXAMPLE IS AMAZING.

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:04:33 +0000

Wow…thank you so much for taking the time to share this resource with us. The more I learn, the more I find out I need to learn!
–Katie

By: Rachel R.

Rachel R. — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:57:01 +0000

I also have to wonder how helpful such a study is (either way). If I’m understanding this correctly, they took women who were diagnosed with cancer over a several-year period, and asked them what their habits had been as regards antiperspirant, shaving, etc. But do you really think they got a solid control group of women who hadn’t used antiperspirant at all, even for a certain period of time before their diagnosis, much less their whole lives? How many American women are there who can say that, period?

Again, I’m not saying that necessarily means that antiperspirant is dangerous, but I question the scientific validity of such a study to prove or disprove anything.

By: Kelly the Kitchen Kop

Kelly the Kitchen Kop — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:48:52 +0000

I don’t believe that it is “fear mongering” when Katie just makes us aware of the concerns with aluminum. It *has* been linked to certain things, and I’m grateful for her willingness to let people know that.

Kelly

By: tonya

tonya — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:51:53 +0000

Bull Cancer. 2008 Sep;95(9):871-80. Links
The use of deodorants/antiperspirants does not constitute a risk factor for breast cancer][Article in French

Namer M, Luporsi E, Gligorov J, Lokiec F, Spielmann M.
Centre Antoine-Lacassagne, Nice, France.

Based on the observation of a high incidence of breast cancer in the upper outer quadrant adjacent to the usual area of application of deodorants and/or antiperspirants, several scientific teams have advanced the hypothesis of a possible link between antiperspirants and breast cancer. The possibility of the involvement of parabens and aluminium salts, traditional components of a number of cosmetic products, has been advanced by the same teams. In order to ascertain whether this hypothesis could or could not be confirmed, a group of clinical experts in oncology was set up to search and analyse the literature data relating to the problem raised with the aim of answering three predefined questions: 1) does it exist experimental or biological arguments supporting a potential link between the use of deodorants/antiperspirants and breast cancer? 2) Does the use of deodorants/antiperspirants have any effect on the increase in the risk of breast cancer? 3) Could a causal relationship between the use of deodorants/antiperspirants and breast cancer be accepted? The scientific data were searched systematically in the PubMed database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez) using standardised search equations. Fifty-nine studies resulting from the literature search were reviewed and nineteen articles with various methodologies were selected for in-depth analysis. In view of the fact that parabens are generally not present in deodorants/antiperspirants, the reflection group’s search related purely to the question of aluminium salts.

Among these nineteen articles, many are methodologically unsound, do not answer to the questions posed or deal with the question of parabens and were therefore discarded by the reflection group. The expert group’s conclusion coincides with those of the French, European and American health authorities. After analysis of the available literature on the subject, no scientific evidence to support the hypothesis was identified and no validated hypothesis appears likely to open the way to interesting avenues of research.