What were the original antiperspirants before modern day ones?

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• swordgeek@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They weren’t.

  Check out wikipedia. There was one product developed in the late 1800s (“Mum,” which was zinc based), then not much happened until it was repackaged as Ban roll-on in the 1940s.

  The idea that sweating is bad is very much a modern concept.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To add to this, sweating was normal, and though there were various ways to deal with the smell of body odor, the rich mostly just caked on perfumes like a teenage boy discovering girls for the first time.

    Other methods of keeping it in check include things like bathing and simply going nose-blind.

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      To add to this: sweating still is normal

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    zinc oxide basically dries out the skin, hence why its used as diaper cream(babies and adults and used for older people who are prone to stasis dermatitis) in 40%/20% apparently its also useful for specific types of dermatitis, like perioral dermatitis.

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  • FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I had first read op as “antidepressants” and I was VERY confused at your response.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What’s even better is just the other night I was on this thread about Frankincense being an antidepressant. So my brain immediately went to that.

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    • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      LMAO, I did the same. No worries.

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  • MuttMutt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, before then you just stunk.

    Some cultures started bathing but many did not until later on. The “Dark Ages” was a time where bathing was nearly nonexistent and cleanliness wasn’t even in people’s minds. People would relieve themselves in buckets and just toss it out the window.

    Here is a really good one. Look up information about the Palace of Versailles, huge building with tons of rooms and huge parties with tons of lord’s and ladies’ eating and drinking but no bathrooms. People would relieve themselves in the stairwell’s. That is why the upperclass wore tons of perfume, to overcome the stench. Modern society has come a long way in just a few hundred years.

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Didn’t Versailles have garderobes?

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Alum stone.

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  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No pic. It is a mostly clear crystal half the size of a cigarette pack with rounded edges.

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  George Carling used to say that you had to put a bayleaf leaf under each arm.

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As per my dreaded days in the high school locker room, before there was axe body spray (1 can per day), there was nothing. And both were fucking awful.

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• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are you asking about antiperspirants specifically or are you using that term to more generally refer to things like deodorant, perfumes, etc?

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