Tag: Deodorant

Travel Tips

Hello everyone!!

In this month’s post I am going to talk about some tips that are quite useful for traveling, I am referring especially to long trips. In the current moment, traveling seems a thing of the past, but sooner or later we will return to normality.

Due to my job I have traveled many times on long flights (transoceanic), flights of at least 10 hours. The longest lasted 14 hours! So, I have some experience and I have seen what is best for travel, from my personal experience. I am going to offer a list of recommendations, especially suitable for long flights, although they could be used for other types of trips, I hope they serve you!:

1. Comfortable clothes. I am always surprised by the photos of celebrities arriving at the airport super divine, with jeans, heels and makeup. I suppose those are occupational hazards. But for those who are not or aspire to look like celebrities, the best thing in the case of long flights is to wear comfortable clothes: leggings, sports shoes, sweatshirts. Clothes with which you can sleep in the most similar way to how you would in your pajamas. Footwear that you can put on and take off easily. And don’t wear a bra. If you have big boobs you can wear a comfortable sport bra. I don’t wear any bra when traveling. In a previous post I already talked about the lymphatic system and the convenience of not wearing a bra, but on a long flight this is even more necessary. When I have flown in the summer and I was wearing a T-shirt at the airport because of the heat, and I felt that I could not go without a bra because it was going to be too evident, what I did was to take it off in the bathroom of the plane and put it in my handbag or backpack. On airplanes it is never excessively hot, rather it is cold because there is usually ventilation going on, so you will be able to put on a sweater, even if it is thin, and not feel that people will realize you are not wearing a bra. Although, as I mentioned in my previous post, wearing a bra or not, noticeable, or not, shouldn’t be a problem or cause for embarrassment. Also, even if it is summer/hot, I think it is always better to wear more than less clothes when flying. On airplanes, I repeat, it is usually cold. Although they give you blankets, you can get cold, and anyway the excessive clothes that you wear can always be removed. For this reason, I never get on a plane wearing sandals (unless I have thick socks in my bag to put on later) or with not enough clothes, I always wear at least one sweatshirt just in case. And I also wear a neck scarf because the cold of the plane can cause sore throat.

2. Travel pillow. Although they also give a mini pillow on the plane (in the case of Iberia) it is better to take a travel pillow for the neck. You can end up with a terrible torticollis if you fall asleep with poor neck posture.

3. Glasses. If you wear contact lenses, do not take them to travel. You can take them off when boarding the plane or going directly to the airport with glasses. On airplanes your skin and mucous membranes get very dry, even if you do not fall asleep it would be very bad to fly for many hours with your contact lenses on.

4. Big bottle of water. Continuing with the above, on the plane you get very dry on the outside and on the inside. It is advisable to drink plenty of water during the flight. At meals time (on a transoceanic flight there are usually 2 meals and a snack) they offer you a glass of water, but it is advisable to drink much more. And it is better not to drink wine, coffee, or anything like that, just water. Since I cannot carry liquids, I always buy a bottle of water as big as possible (1 or 2 liters) in a store inside the airport.

5. Ear plugs, eye mask, headphones. Again, they usually offer them to you on the plane, but just in case. The earplugs can help you sleep well, the mask protect you from the light, and the headphones are in case you want to listen to your own music, audiobooks or whatever, or if you are uncomfortable with those that are provided on the plane.

6. Toothbrush and toothpaste. After a long trip and several meals, bad breath can occur. At least before landing it is advisable to brush your teeth. Depending on whether you are going to see someone important when you arrive or not, you could also wear some cologne or makeup. I prefer not to wear makeup for long flights, because the skin suffers a lot on those trips. Sometimes I put some aloe vera before landing in order to hydrate. Some underarm wipes can also help you arrive with more dignity (I remind you that I don’t use deodorant).

I hope it helps you! Until next post!

Say no to deodorant!!

This month’s post is going to be about … the deodorant! SAY NOT TO DEODORANT !!! HAHAHAHA Hurrah social ostracism !! Well, I’m not saying that you have to go around smelling bad, I just want to share some things that I’ve tried and to encourage you to try them too.

First, let’s distinguish between deodorant and anti-perspirant. Deodorants, as the name suggests, eliminate the odour (or at least they’re supposed to do it). Anti-perspirants prevent you from transpiring, that is, you don’t sweat, so you will not smell. What is the purpose of sweating? It is a normal and necessary physiological function, as it is to evacuate, to pee … What would you need to suppress these function? Sweating is necessary, it serves to regulate body temperature and eliminate toxins. It is not good to use antiperspirants that prevent sweating (yes, I know the famous Perspirex is very helpful and I have also used it for a wedding, but it has aluminum that is carcinogenic). Sweating is affected by the cloth that you wear (lycra for example), by the weather (heat), if you are nervous, if your’e fatter or thinner, and even by genetic/hereditary reasons (some people sweat more than others in the same circumstances, some people sweat throughout his body, some people almost don’t seat…). For very  serious cases (for example, people whose hands do not stop sweating) botox injections are used. But I’m going to talk about normal cases and especially the armpits sweating, which is the most common case.

Using antiperspirants is not good because it nulifies the function of regulating the body temperature that sweating has, and all the toxins that sweating eliminates get trapped. What alternative would we have to Perspirex to avoid stains in the axillary area? If you use Perspirex once a year I do not think you’re going to die. But there are alternatives. I found this on YouTube, and I think it’s a very good idea:

The video is in French, but basically it talks about washable anti-stain patches that stick to your clothes, they are not noticeable and they prevent a sweat stain. It occurred to me that since we can put a panty liner on our high-heel shoes so that they do not hurt, we could do the same on the armpit area of our shirts.

Although I do not want to seem extreme, I have read on numerous occasions and I know from some testimonies that women who have or have had breast cancer are advised not to use antiperspirants and even deodorants. Some components of these products have been found in various tumors. Armpits are very close to breasts, and everything people put on their skin goes into their bloodstream, so the habit of using deodorant/antiperspirant everyday may not be good… Have you ever thought about reading the components of these products and see if you know them, if they are safe?

In theory, deodorants would not be as bad as antiperspirants, because they only kill or camouflage the bacteria that cause bad smell, but they don’t suppress the function of sweating (they don’t avoid stains, just smelling). Anyway, I think they just camouflage odours, and I do not like them at all. Aerosol deodorants are bad for the environment, and even if we talk about non-aerosol deodorants, they have a lot of strange ingredients that I do not know.

On the Internet, there are many recipes for homemade deodorants. But I’m going to give you two very simple ones that I’ve tried. The first is lemon juice. You squeeze it, put it in a diffuser, and you have your deodorant. The problem for me is that the diffuser always ended quite sticky. Some people warn that lemon photosensitizes and you can get spots in your armpits… but who sunbathe the armpits??? LOL. So I think a better idea is baking soda (this ingredient is good for everything, in another post I will talk about my homemade toothpaste;)) It is the ingredient of almost all homemade deodorants, but I use it simply. I put some powder in each armpit (before putting on my clothes) and that’s it. It works very well. I keep it in the bathroom in a spent bottle of cinnamon, put a little in my hand and pass it through the armpit:

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Finally, it is also important to consider diet. Many people change their body odor when they leave a diet full of junk food. In fact, if you eat a lot of fruits and vegetables you will notice that your body (bad) odor is much lower, because you are not eliminating so many toxins. An exception for this are garlic and onions, which are very good for health but have some compounds that cause bad breath for a while even if you brush your teeth, and they also perspire through the skin. For that type of bad breath there are solutions like chewing parsley immediately afterwards or eating your garlic frozen. Garlic and onions smell more if they are eaten raw than cooked, but eaten raw they maintain more properties.

And of course, for the smell of the armpits, water and soap in the shower every day! :)))

I hope this post is useful and contributes to reduce the use of so much unnecessary chemical cosmetics, harmful to the environment, your health and pocket.

In the next posts I will update the post about electrolysis hair removal electrical, since I receive many questions (but everything is going very well;)). Also the post about oral care (I anticipate that the So-Wash irrigator still seems the best, and I have proven it in myself). And I will explain how I prepare my homemade toothpaste and how much I use it. Also how I ended up with the little spots on my teeth that appeared due to drinking too much tea.

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UPDATE!!: You can also use toothpaste as a deodorant!