Natural Deodorants
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Natural Deodorant market has recently expanded, with plenty of products out there promising to keep you fresh, and dry, without the use of traditional ingredients such as aluminium salts.
Listener PC Hollie got in touch on WhatsApp after she’d seen claims that regular deodorants and antiperspirants containing aluminium salts might be bad for our health, and wanted to know if natural deodorants are really better for us?
She also wanted to know why they’re more expensive, if it’s worth paying more, and if they can do the same job and keep her dry while she’s fighting crime.
Greg Foot finds out by speaking with a dermatologist Dr. Adil Sheraz, a chemist specialising in the makeup of natural products, Dr. Barbara Olioso, and by performing a “sweat test” where he convinced fellow gym goers to sniff his pits, and assess his sweat patches.
This series, we’re testing and investigating your suggested wonder-products. If you’ve seen an ad, trend or fad and wonder if there’s any evidence to back up a claim, drop us an email to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or you can send us a voice note to our new WhatsApp number: 07543 306807.
PRESENTER: Greg Foot PRODUCER: Kate Holdsworth
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
| 0:15.3 | including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane, |
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| 0:28.0 | To book your free tickets, |
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| 0:34.1 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:43.6 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to a new series of sliced bread. |
| 0:48.8 | My mission here is simple. |
| 0:50.6 | Take a product that is promising to make you healthier, happier or greener, run it through |
| 0:55.4 | the evidence mill and find out if its bold claims stand up to scrutiny. Is it really the best |
| 1:01.9 | thing since sliced bread? Or marketing BS? Which wonder products, this new batch of investigations |
| 1:07.8 | will be scrutinising, though? that I cannot tell you because it depends |
| 1:11.7 | on what you suggest. If you have seen something promising you the world, send it over on email |
| 1:17.5 | to sliced.bred at BBC.co.uk or as a voice note on WhatsApp to 07543 306807. Someone who did just that is PC Holly Osborne from Kent. |
| 1:32.6 | Hello, I was wondering if you could look into non-toxic deodorants. There seems to be an |
| 1:37.6 | increasing market for more natural deodorants and I've been reading claims that chemicals |
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