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Everyone's different. This person is just as likely to get a rash from your favorite deodorant as they are Old Spice. There's nothing inherently wrong with Old Spice.

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This is not explicitly true. Old Spice products use aluminum compounds in their deodorants aluminum based compounds especially when as fine as they are in deodorant are generally an irritant and a poison for your body. It's been proven to cause Alzheimers. I use Adidas 24 Hour control which doesn't contain aluminum.

It's common to be allergic to aluminum.

Fair enough but I just think it's a little dishonest to call out Old Spice when many deodorants contain aluminum and you have an allergy. It just seems you could have made this post initially and that anyone in your shoes would already know to factor it in.

True my original post is a bit harsh. The point is Old Spice is like the Burger King of deodorants, yeah there are McDonalds but McDonalds didn't have a recent gigantic/viral ad campaign with a now popular figure.

Aluminum has not been proven that aluminum causes Alzheimer's...

Many other deodorants use aluminum as well, Old Spice is hardly unique in that regard.

The old spice container I have shows no aluminum in the ingredients list... care to revise or elucidate?

Alumimum is commonly found in most (all?) anti-perspirants. It's definitely not something limited to Old Spice. If you want to avoid aluminum, you'll probably have to stick to using deodorants that are not also anti-perspirants -- it might be the case that Old Spice doesn't sell anything like this.

Old Spice definitely does sell deodorant and it doesn't have aluminum. Here are the ingredients on the back of mine (Pure Sport High Endurance - which seems to work for me): Dipropylene Glycol, Water, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Stearate, Fragrance, Ppg-3 Myristyl Ether, Triclosan, Tetrasodium Edta, Sodium Hydroxide, D&c Violet No. 2, D&c Green No. 6.

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