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Pit Rock - Deodorant Alternative

by Tracee Sioux on August 20th, 2008

Someone recently described me as “all natural” and I scoffed.

I’m not really, I just do yoga and would rather exercise and take a vitamin than a prescription, I said.

Then I told them about the natural salt rock in place of my deodorant and the melatonin they should take to sleep instead of Tylenol PM and my reputation around these parts was sealed.

I’m officially known as a health nut.

But, I swear I only got here kicking and screaming after finding the traditional method of Wellbutrin and Xanex popping completely detrimental to my soul.

Then there’s the peer pressure.

I hang out with granola chicks. Several of them infiltrated my bookclub. Jen from Jlogged and Mrs. Blogaway used to work in a health food store and then you throw in Alexis, kindof a hippy chick and, over wine, they start talking about how completely insane it is to open up your pores in a hot shower and then immediately fill them with aluminum, which may cause Alzheimer’s.

My mother pulls out her Essential Oils when she comes to visit. She tells me how my aunt cured her own cancer with a green drink, then pops out this Crystal salt rock and smoothes it on her pits after a shower.

I have been using this same rock for 10 years, she brags.

10 years! You haven’t had to buy deodorant in 10 years?

Nope. This works just as well and I’m not putting aluminum in my pores.

Then I remember Julia Roberts and Matthew McConaughey both came out and Oprah said, Oh you smell so good (on separate occassions). They both professed not wearing deodorant.

And I find myself telling my husband while were in San Francisco on vacation, I’m going into this health food store and looking for a deodorant rock. It’s a natural salt crystal and you use it forever.

I hear him mumble, You’re becoming just like your mother.

What exactly does that mean? I put my dukes up and get ready to fight.

You weren’t a totally health nut when I married you.

I’ll try anything if it will save us money,

I retort, resentful that he’s not letting me linger in the store to see what other natural remedies are available in a progressive city.

And I think it works better than my old brand of super-charged deodorant. I thought I would be sweatier and self-conscious - but I’m not. I don’t smell even after my kick-boxing class and I don’t sweat much either.

I found it amusing that they shaped the rock into the shape of deodorant to quell our psychological addiction to what we see advertised. As if it’s the shape that makes our odors or lack thereof socially acceptable.

They also sell it in the shape of . . .well, a rock.

I bet 50% of people prefer the marketed shape of traditional deodorant simply because it jives with the autopilot of their personal hygiene routine.

I’ll use up my stick of deodorant and I’ll share yours with you, my husband said the other day after I told him how effective it is.

Share? Jeez, it’s only $5.

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Images Source: Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me

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