MMCFLY
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As you may have read in other posts, I decided to go the antiperspirant path to start combating my not so bad Facial and scalp HH and went and ordered 3 products within 4 days. The products are
1) Face Saver by Neat Feat, a product coming out of our neighboring country New Zealand. The company makes products for the sporting world from antiperspirants to foot solutions such as padding etc. They also have one for palmar HH but for some reason it is not on their website but mentioned and shown in their brochure which they sent with the product. This product has arrived. Note that the website says that the product is not suitable for use on scalp.
2) SweatStop Facial cream with Aloe Vera out of Roger Federer’s own house, Switzerland (though the product is made in Germany). And in typical German fashion, the website is extremely informative and answers any question you have in mind and also lists all their products (including upside down sprays for the back!!) and what it is used for and what HH severity it handles. After a couple of emails, in which they responded in no time (and gave me a 10% discount for no reason hehe), I decided to go with the face cream over the spray which I could have used for scalp too and they did assure me it will not cause any hair loss, however I already ordered product three below so I wasn’t stressing too much. This product is in transit.
3) Odaban spray, I believe coming from the land of the terminally ill motor industry, the USA. No need to say a lot about this one as most of you would know more about it but I was happy to read on their website that the product can be used on the scalp. This product is in transit.
Now let’s test drive product one, the Face Saver. It arrived yesterday nicely boxed and wrapped. Small 50 mm tube. The product has an ok smell (not too nice and not bad either, to be honest I prefer odourless products) and in a yellowish gel form. I decided to put it straight to the test and thought what better place than the gym. The instructions says that it can be used once or twice per day and then other products such as sunscreens can be applied over it which means no night application and washing face in the morning stuff.
I washed my face and dried it thoroughly and applied a small amount (read on Odaban website that you should not apply too much as you don’t want to block the pores completely). The first thing I paid attention to was whether I had any redness, itching or burning? Non!! Ok great start. I rested for an hour and off the gym where I started with a 2 km run on the treadmill at an average of 13 km/h speed so fair good speed and taking into consideration that it was a warm day too. Usually, by the end of the run my forehead and hair line would be dripping but to my surprise I notices though my hair was starting to drip, my forehead had very slight moisture on it which is expected during exercising. My eyebrows were also dripping cause I didn’t apply it there. I had a look at the mirror and was happy to see that there was no redness and it did not itch or burn in anyway. I then moved on to weights, and my forehead was dry the rest of the night. So all in all, not a bad start at all.
The reason I bought the products is not for the gym though, I really don’t care if I sweat there, I’ve seen women sweat three times as much as me there so who cares. Why I bought it was for the day to day use, things like walking to work and when I leave work, u know those situations.
I applied the product again last night before going to bed and washed my face this morning and applied a small amount again this morning before leaving home. My walk to work from the car park was comfortable and weather was cool but I usually start to feel the heat when I get into the elevator and it was the same today. I felt my body heat and usually that means my forehead starts to sweat and then that triggers the hair line and scalp too. But this time it was different, just because my forehead was dry, the scalp did not sweat either, and this is more of a psychological effect as I start thinking about my forehead and the rest of the head follows suit so I remained dry after checking my forehead was dry.
Other test was a kind of physical task at work which definitely causes my head to sweat but again, forehead completely dry and just a slight sweat from the hairline at front but I’m pretty sure if my face started then my head would sweat much more as happened last week.
Ok this is getting real long and probably boring for some of you but I did want to give u a detailed report on my first impression.
So far so good. I’m planning to use it once a day for about 7 days then move on to about 3 days a week then down to 2 if all goes well.
I shall keep you posted and keep an eye on my other posts which will cover the other products when I get them. I will stop using this product in the new year and when the sweat comes back, I will switch to the SweatStop. I will test Odaban on the hair line so I can give you a report shortly after I receive it.
Keep cool and Stay Dry
1) Face Saver by Neat Feat, a product coming out of our neighboring country New Zealand. The company makes products for the sporting world from antiperspirants to foot solutions such as padding etc. They also have one for palmar HH but for some reason it is not on their website but mentioned and shown in their brochure which they sent with the product. This product has arrived. Note that the website says that the product is not suitable for use on scalp.
2) SweatStop Facial cream with Aloe Vera out of Roger Federer’s own house, Switzerland (though the product is made in Germany). And in typical German fashion, the website is extremely informative and answers any question you have in mind and also lists all their products (including upside down sprays for the back!!) and what it is used for and what HH severity it handles. After a couple of emails, in which they responded in no time (and gave me a 10% discount for no reason hehe), I decided to go with the face cream over the spray which I could have used for scalp too and they did assure me it will not cause any hair loss, however I already ordered product three below so I wasn’t stressing too much. This product is in transit.
3) Odaban spray, I believe coming from the land of the terminally ill motor industry, the USA. No need to say a lot about this one as most of you would know more about it but I was happy to read on their website that the product can be used on the scalp. This product is in transit.
Now let’s test drive product one, the Face Saver. It arrived yesterday nicely boxed and wrapped. Small 50 mm tube. The product has an ok smell (not too nice and not bad either, to be honest I prefer odourless products) and in a yellowish gel form. I decided to put it straight to the test and thought what better place than the gym. The instructions says that it can be used once or twice per day and then other products such as sunscreens can be applied over it which means no night application and washing face in the morning stuff.
I washed my face and dried it thoroughly and applied a small amount (read on Odaban website that you should not apply too much as you don’t want to block the pores completely). The first thing I paid attention to was whether I had any redness, itching or burning? Non!! Ok great start. I rested for an hour and off the gym where I started with a 2 km run on the treadmill at an average of 13 km/h speed so fair good speed and taking into consideration that it was a warm day too. Usually, by the end of the run my forehead and hair line would be dripping but to my surprise I notices though my hair was starting to drip, my forehead had very slight moisture on it which is expected during exercising. My eyebrows were also dripping cause I didn’t apply it there. I had a look at the mirror and was happy to see that there was no redness and it did not itch or burn in anyway. I then moved on to weights, and my forehead was dry the rest of the night. So all in all, not a bad start at all.
The reason I bought the products is not for the gym though, I really don’t care if I sweat there, I’ve seen women sweat three times as much as me there so who cares. Why I bought it was for the day to day use, things like walking to work and when I leave work, u know those situations.
I applied the product again last night before going to bed and washed my face this morning and applied a small amount again this morning before leaving home. My walk to work from the car park was comfortable and weather was cool but I usually start to feel the heat when I get into the elevator and it was the same today. I felt my body heat and usually that means my forehead starts to sweat and then that triggers the hair line and scalp too. But this time it was different, just because my forehead was dry, the scalp did not sweat either, and this is more of a psychological effect as I start thinking about my forehead and the rest of the head follows suit so I remained dry after checking my forehead was dry.
Other test was a kind of physical task at work which definitely causes my head to sweat but again, forehead completely dry and just a slight sweat from the hairline at front but I’m pretty sure if my face started then my head would sweat much more as happened last week.
Ok this is getting real long and probably boring for some of you but I did want to give u a detailed report on my first impression.
So far so good. I’m planning to use it once a day for about 7 days then move on to about 3 days a week then down to 2 if all goes well.
I shall keep you posted and keep an eye on my other posts which will cover the other products when I get them. I will stop using this product in the new year and when the sweat comes back, I will switch to the SweatStop. I will test Odaban on the hair line so I can give you a report shortly after I receive it.
Keep cool and Stay Dry
