Aluminium in your Deodorant

Aluminium salts make up around 25% of most antiperspirant deodorants. They help to stop you sweating by blocking the pores in your armpits. Our bodies use sweat to cool us down and to remove toxins, so sweat is a good thing and stopping your body from sweating is not a good idea. Putting aluminium, artificial perfumes and preservatives (usually parabens) in close proximity with breast tissue is also not a good idea as studies show a relationship between aluminium in breast tissue and breast cancer. Parabens too have been linked to breast cancer.

Aluminium is also known to damage nerve cells and has been found in the brain tissue and blood of people with Alzheimers disease. It’s not meant to be in the human body but is still used in most vaccinations as a preservative and an “immune adjuvant”, designed to stimulate the immune system to react intensely for as long as possible to the vaccine virus being injected along with it. Mercury, or thimerosal, has also been used in vaccines for the same purpose. Although thimerosal (linked to Autism) has been removed from most childhood vaccines (except for Hepatitis B), it has been replaced with Aluminium Hydroxide.
You should think seriously about avoiding anything which might introduce aluminium into your body, that also includes cooking in aluminium, drinking from aluminium, eating food from aluminium cans, living anywhere near an aluminium smelter.....

What about crystal deodorants?
If you don’t want aluminium in your deodorant, you probably shouldn’t be using a crystal deodorant stone. Crystal deodorants are made from alum, or potassium aluminium sulphate. Although thought to be a safer alternative to aluminium chloride or chlorohydrate, the aluminium compounds linked to Alzheimers disease and breast cancer, they are still aluminium salts. Alum is made up of larger molecules, believed to be too large to be absorbed into the body via the sweat ducts of the armpits.

However, with aluminium’s reputation as a neurotoxin and pseudo-oestrogen, we really should steer clear of it altogether. There are some excellent, effective, truly aluminium-free deodorants available (at www.gwarehouse.com.au). Alternatively, you can try going without although this requires frequent showering, especially at this time of year). You can also try applying a pinch of bicarb soda to your pits to help absorb BO, however, some brands of bicarb may also be contaminated with aluminium. Yet another dilemma!