Have you Tried Pitrok?

[Coldfeet]

Has anyone tried this?

http://www.pitrok.co.uk/

Personally I have been using it for a number of years, and can't praise it enough. All natural, no chemicals, no smell. I have been doing an experiment as to how long I can get a stick to last, and it is well over a year, not a bad investment for about a fiver a pop.

Does anyone use this?

 

[woodstock]

I first came across these around 2000 and have been using it ever since with great effect, 3 years is my record it was still going strong until I dropped it and it smashed to pieces.

 

[rik_uk3]

Not tried it, I just wash clean with soap.

 

[EdS]

It full of chemicals (just as everything is). And not all natural:

Aqua, Ammonium Alum, Aloe Barbadensis, Citrus grandis (grapefruit seed extract), Glycerin, Phenoxyethanol, 2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1, 3-diol, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium benzoate, Limonene

 

[Coldfeet]

It full of chemicals (just as everything is). And not all natural:

Aqua, Ammonium Alum, Aloe Barbadensis, Citrus grandis (grapefruit seed extract), Glycerin, Phenoxyethanol, 2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1, 3-diol, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium benzoate, Limonene

My bad, I was referring to the original crystal - http://www.pitrok.co.uk/product/pitrok-crystal-natural-deodorant-stick/ Not the secondary products they produce.

I have been using since about 2006ish, and partly removes the need for washing as frequently.

 

[Ogri the trog]

Been using crystal type de-odorants for about 15 years, possibly longer.

I worked within the toiletries industry for a while and there is good reason why I wouldn't want to have their products on my skin!

ATB

Ogri the trog

 

[British Red]

The original crystal is of course entirely chemical - to be precise ammonium aluminium sulfate (NH[SUB]4[/SUB])Al(SO[SUB]4[/SUB])[SUB]2[/SUB]

 

[VANDEEN]

It's the only under arm product that doesn't cause me a problem with repeated use.
All other sprays and roll ons seem to cause itching within a week or so of daily use.
It was a lady physio with a similar list of allergies to myself who put me on to it.

As for how long it lasts, I've never seen one finished yet, as above dropped & broken.
Current one is over a year old so far.

 

[Countryman]

Aluminium Salts have been linked to Breast Cancer.

There is something wholly unnatural about products designed to stop you sweating in places God designed to sweat.

Removing the odour or masking it must be the better choice, surely?


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[Countryman]

Or maybe not

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/healthyliving/cancercontroversies/deodorants/


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[lou1661]

I found one from here to be better than Pitrock
http://naturalspasupplies.co.uk/shop-2/deodorant-shaving-styptic-of-volcanic-potassium-alum/

 

[Coldfeet]

The original crystal is of course entirely chemical - to be precise ammonium aluminium sulfate (NH[SUB]4[/SUB])Al(SO[SUB]4[/SUB])[SUB]2[/SUB]

Yes, quite. I must remind myself before posting that you are not like the normal uninformed specimens I spend most of my working life with, and therefore I can use the correct terms for things

 

[Coldfeet]

I found one from here to be better than Pitrock
http://naturalspasupplies.co.uk/shop-2/deodorant-shaving-styptic-of-volcanic-potassium-alum/

Looks interesting - I may have to try some when my current Rok runs out.

 

[VANDEEN]

Aluminium Salts have been linked to Breast Cancer.

There is something wholly unnatural about products designed to stop you sweating in places God designed to sweat.

Removing the odour or masking it must be the better choice, surely?

Or maybe not

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/healthyliving/cancercontroversies/deodorants/

Re your second Link, yep it oooks like "Insufficient testing" has't proven anything conclusive. It'll mean a massive change in the market if does.

Re your masking odor against stopping sweating:-

If I can avoid any product at all, then I will, this is most days.

I have the luxury of controlling two fans, the radiator beside me and work in a all bar 1 male office. Hence I can regulate temp so it isn't an issue.

However..

If I have to spend a few days in a customers or suppliers "furnace" where the trimmest of ladies, wearing tissue paper blouses & tiny skirts rule the thermostat then standing with a waterfall running under each arm & looking like a contestant for a Bearded Mrs Kazakhstan wet t-shirt competition is not an acceptable option either.

 

[andybysea]

Im in a similar position to you Vandeen, i cant use any deoderant/anti persperant, i get a rash under my arms and extreme itching as soon as i do, and ive tried alot of products including the skin sensetive ones, my routine now is wash morn/noon and night under pits/when possible and a body spray on torso.

 

[Coldfeet]

Im in a similar position to you Vandeen, i cant use any deoderant/anti persperant, i get a rash under my arms and extreme itching as soon as i do, and ive tried alot of products including the skin sensetive ones, my routine now is wash morn/noon and night under pits/when possible and a body spray on torso.

Have you tried these kinds of products?

 

[Toddy]

See when you smash one; save the bits and when you next try dyeing a blanket dissolve the alum in hot (very, very hot) water and add that to the dye liquor. It's a very good mordant

Basically it's a big chunk of natural styptic pencil.
Styptic pencils are made from anhydrous aluminium sulphate, or sometimes potassium aluminium sulphate, which is otherwise known as potash.
They are very, very astringent. That's why they stop bleeding and why they stop sweating, etc.,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alum
for other uses.

Useful stuff, but I don't like it on my skin. It leaves my hands sore when I use it when dyeing if I don't wear rubber gloves.

atb,
M

 

[VANDEEN]

I remember my grandad getting me a styptic pencil along with my first shaving brush and soap.

I bet it's still in a draw somewhere hardly used, single bladed plastic disposable safety razors saved me lots of scars and Knicks compared to the old steel one he proposed I used.

The pitrock does caution against using on broken skin though, whereas the styptic pencil worked by getting it into the cut?
I remember it didn't half sting!

 

[andybysea]

Coldfeet which products are you asking me have i tried?? the ones i mentioned or the ones like pitrok?? i would'nt use that anyway now after reading whats in it ive read reports that Aluminium based products are not particularly good for under your arms.