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[โ€“] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The crystal stuff helps me to sweat less, but it did very little for the odour (which is surprising because it's the opposite of what it claims to do)

My routine now is to use the crystal, then put a drop of diluted (skin safe) tea tree oil on a cloth and rub that on my pits.

At first the tea tree oil was just to disguises the odour, but after a few weeks even if I forgot the tea tree one day the odour was much improved. My theory is that the antimicrobial properties of tea tree combined with the crystal have worked together to prevent the bacteria and yeasts that make odour worse.

I like the crystal because I have circulation issues and it causes hyperhidrosis in my peripheries, so I've been able to use it on my hands and feet too. I don't want my hands to smell like deodorant but I do want them to be less wet. It doesn't help the numbness, coldness and blue skin, but it's less embarrassing to just have zombie hands than to have soggy zombie hands.

[โ€“] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

The whole point of the salt stick is to make it so that bacteria can't easily grow in the region. Most have certain salinity levels they can live in comfortably. If you use it repeatedly over time, I'd expect that whatever bacteria are remaining is far lower than when you started.