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Sweating and body odour Your skin has two main types of sweat glands: eccrine and apocrine glands. Eccrine glands occur over most of your body and open directly onto the surface of the skin. Apocrine glands develop in areas abundant in hair follicles, such as your armpits and groin, and they empty into the hair follicle just before it opens onto the skin surface. When your body temperature rises, your eccrine glands secrete fluid onto the surface of your skin, where it cools your body as it evaporates. This fluid is composed mainly of water and salt. Apocrine glands, on the other hand, secrete a solution that is thicker than sweat and contains fatty acids and proteins. This fluid is odourless until it combines with bacteria found normally on your skin. Antiperspirants and deodorants Deodorants contain ingredients that neutralise the odour and kill the bacteria. They don’t stop you from perspiring, like antiperspirants do. But don’t think that just because it
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doesn’t contain those nasty aluminium compounds that it’s safe. Deodorants can still contain petrochemical penetration enhancers like propylene glycol, toxic, hormone disrupting chemicals like triclosan and allergenic and neurotoxic fragrance compounds and of course, paraben preservatives, which are controversial in their potential relationship with breast cancer. All antiperspirants have an aluminium-based compound as their main ingredient. If you look at the back of an antiperspirant container, the aluminium-based compound is always the first ingredient listed. Here are a few of the common active ingredients: Aluminium chloride, aluminium zirconium tricholorohydrex glycine, aluminium chlorohydrate, aluminium hydroxybromide. The aluminium ions, are taken into the cells that line the eccrine-gland ducts. When the aluminium ions are drawn into the cells, water passes in with them. As more water flows in, the cells begin to swell, squeezing the ducts closed so that sweat can’t get out.
Alum-free myth of crystal deodorants Rock crystal deodorants contain ammonium aluminium sulfate and potassium aluminium sulfate. Alum is actively astringent. It coagulates the albumin in the tissues and in the blood, produces local contraction of the capillaries. Anyone wishing to avoid aluminium compounds would be well advised to avoid products that contain these ingredients. The importance of sweating! New research is revealing something remarkable about why the body sweats. Beyond its obvious role in regulating body temperature, sweating has been found to facilitate the elimination of accumulated heavy metals and petrochemicals. Antiperspirants that block sweat production in your underarms decrease your body’s ability to eliminate toxins. Bicarb soda is a natural, safe and effective deodorant, because it kills the bacteria that cause body odour whilst still allowing the body to eliminate toxins. www.bit.ly/MiessenceBody
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