blog post on crystal deodorant stones

mckelvykr

thought you ladies would like to read this..

http://kimberlysnyder.net/

daisygirl17

ahhhh THANK you so much for posting this!!! I have been using the crystal for about 6 months now and love it. I've been wanting to try making my own deodorant for a while now and have just been lazy because I have so much of the crystal left...that thing seriously lasts forever. But, now might be a good time to try it out. Wow, I am really upset by this actually...this whole time I thought I wasn't putting aluminum in my body, I was.

jennyk213

Ugh, something is safe one day and not the next.  The Crystal rock is rated a 1 on the Cosmetic Safety Database.  How do you know what to believe? 

heliocentric

She hardly sounds like an expert.

My understanding was that while there is correlation between aluminum and alzheimer's, there wasn't any confirmed causation.

I admit I'm also miffed that she claims changing your diet will make you not stink. DH & I eat the same foods. DH had/has great success with the crystal, while I had ZERO success. I used it an entire year because people told me I needed to allow my body time to adjust and purge the toxins. Well, a year later I still had horrible BO, so I went back to the "toxic" stuff. It's really hard to be professional and put together when you have wet pits and can't lift your arms without fear of stinking people out. I am not exaggerating--it was that bad. Everyone has different body chemistry. I can't no-poo, either.

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heliocentric:

She hardly sounds like an expert.

In fact, if you read some of her other posts, she sounds like a nutcase.

daisygirl17

315bride:

heliocentric:

She hardly sounds like an expert.

In fact, if you read some of her other posts, she sounds like a nutcase.

Oh really? Guess I'm too trusting of people. dumb. Good to know though

belovedbride07

heliocentric:

She hardly sounds like an expert.

My understanding was that while there is correlation between aluminum and alzheimer's, there wasn't any confirmed causation.

I admit I'm also miffed that she claims changing your diet will make you not stink. DH & I eat the same foods. DH had/has great success with the crystal, while I had ZERO success. I used it an entire year because people told me I needed to allow my body time to adjust and purge the toxins. Well, a year later I still had horrible BO, so I went back to the "toxic" stuff. It's really hard to be professional and put together when you have wet pits and can't lift your arms without fear of stinking people out. I am not exaggerating--it was that bad. Everyone has different body chemistry. I can't no-poo, either.

I thought maybe I was being under-alarmed by that blog post, so I didn't want to say anything.  

Her "there is aluminum in alum" explanation was weak; I did some searching and didn't find any information that would lead me to believe that the crystal deodorant companies are lying about alum being too large to be absorbed by the skin.  (This, of course, is in addition to the lack of scientific evidence showing a causation between aluminum in deodorant and Alzheimer's or breast cancer.)