Baking soda as deodorant.....which brand?

Hold that thought. When you begin to fast from meat and sugar, then often the body will attempt to excrete toxins that may have built up in the body. As such, some people actually experience a change in body odor for a short period of time, usually days, and then a change to not having the same intensity of body odor. This is most often experienced when doing a straight fruit and vegetable diet of several days duration.
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It doesn't happen to everyone, but I know it happens because I once encountered someone that it happened to, as well as some copious sweating during that window of time. It's only a few days.

Since sweat has no smell, it's a function of a change in the bacteria(kind), or the bacteria count (how much).

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/17/2013 04:00 AM

I find that if you don't eat meat and go without the putrid rotting animal flesh in your intestines, you won't stink and even need the deodorant in the first place.

Wait a minute....sweat has no smell?

I thought sweat was 10% urine (or urea)

I have definitely licked my shoulder when exercising in a hot summer sun, and it has a definite light salt flavor.

Normal sweat has no scent. Yes, it has salt(sodium chloride). The body attempts to excrete salt, but take in potassium in the sodium/potassium intracellular pump. That's complex, and I'll spare you the details. We need salt, but most people get too much, and so some is liberated by sweating. It's removed in other ways too but lets not discuss physiology.


High salt makes the body retain water. It therefore increases blood pressure. Someone who's eating a lot of salt, and has high blood pressure, might experience more salt loss upon exertion as the body attempts to deal with the situation and expel the primary cause of the high BP.

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What is urea? You eat proteins. They are made of amino acids. Amines are the tail ends of amino acids. Your kidneys combine amines to form ammonia (urea) and then excretes it. If you didn't eat a lot of protein, then your pee would be very light in color since there's little urea in your urine. That can happen as a function of being well hydrated or dehydrated too, because of conceration of urine (less water=darker pee and vice versa).

As previously stated, if you eat a ton of meat, well it contains a ton of amino acids, right? More urea will be created. A meat like a sausage or bacon contains high salt and amino acids and will usually create more metabolic wastes that will be excreted both through the urine and as urea in the sweat. That may also cause body odor from bacteria. It depends upon the person, their metabolism, hygiene, hydration, etc.

Some urea comes out as sweat. Pee if well hydrated won't have much of an odor. In fact if it does, you have a bacteria infection which is bad because the kidneys and urinary bladder are supposed to be a sterile area.

For an athlete, or in a collapse when people are doing a lot of work, then your electrolytes (most importantly sodium and potassium) are lost in sweat. If that happens in excess, then the body can lose so much as to induce shock.
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For preppers, storing salt is vital since they don't live near the sea and hence can't easily acquire it in nature. In addition salt contains Iodine which has been added. See my sig for two ways to acquire both.

Because sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) cannot be made by a prepper, and is so useful, one should judiciously use it in a collapse. You'd use other things as I listed above, to control body odor.

In regular times, the salt in baking soda changes the pH under your arms AND introduces sodium and chloride to the area. Why? The chemical bonds between baking soda are ionic which is broken by water. Those components kill bacteria too.

Most people find vinegar to be a good solution (little pun) to body odor. The vinegar initially has a smell, but goes away, works all day, and is cheap.

A lot of antiperspirants contain aluminum. We think that this is a component to Alzheimer's Disease. More study is needed. As such, people SHOULDN'T use products that introduce aluminum in the body.

Some folks use a salt crystal to do this task, but some of those contain aluminum, so that's actually not helpful too.
[link to soundearth.com] Alum in those crystals is aluminum sulfate

Use vinegar.
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You see how much science is in medicine? Biochemistry, physiology, nutrition, anatomy, tons of stuff.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/17/2013 05:06 PM

thx, but i tried a water pik years before - i hated it and always had the feeling i "inject" the dirt depper in the gum instead of getting it out.
i stay with the usual dental floss and oil-pulling afterwards.
i am lucky, my teeth are very good (and always were), i only see the dentist twice a year for checking on them.
maybe that´s why i like going to the dentist ;)

I think, most delicious phoe that I'll answer any question or comment you produce, just to see those dark captivating eyes of yours.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/18/2013 05:51 AM