I use Degree, and apply it after the morning shower, and after the post-commute cool-down. Then reapply after the afternooon commute shower.

Always used Degree since it came out and have always had great luck with it.

I'd rather smell a man wearing lavender than a man wearing some of the deodorant/antiperspirants out there.

Jeeze, my 14 year old son got some Axe stuff and gawd D@m^ does it stink.

Both my daughters like Old spice. . .

"To each their own!" said the lady who kissed the cow.

Even Super Trooper fans need to smell nice! Plus it's not that I'm in touch with my feminine side, but rather I'm comfortable in my masculinity!

I actually don't smell like lavender unless you have your nose in my pit (which I guess could be a problem), though lavender is a nice smell. But anyway, many of those non-aluminum "natural" off-the-shelf deodorants use a lot of the same ingredients (lavender, aloe, witch hazel, etc). Don’t fear the lavender!

Just switched from Mitchum to Degree. Mitchum works as long as you don't ride a bike, i.e. sweat. Goes on too wet. Degree takes a licking and keeps on ticking.

Just get a job with a French company.

Reapply after you cool down. I use old spice. It works fine.

I've found that a mix of equal parts baking soda and cornstarch, applied either with the fingers or (for those especially comfortable with their masculinity) a big fluffy powder puff, works great. I keep it all in one of those round altoid tins up in my office for application after I rinse and change. Cheap, easy, effective.

Cheers,
Jonobie

Yeah, that's exactly what I use. For the average batch I use a 1/2 cup of cornstarch, 1/2 cup of baking soda, and a drop or two of lavender oil or cinnamon oil (natural anti-bacterial). The cornstarch apparently keeps the baking soda from clumping. The Altoid tin is a really good idea - I'll have to try that.

It also keeps the baking soda from being too abrasive. I once had a mixture that was a bit off; more baking soda than cornstarch. My underarms turned a bright red and were tender after using that for a couple of days -- yowch! Adding more cornstarch quickly fixed that problem.

Cheers,
Jonobie

The best body spray I've used is Secret for women, the sparkling vanilla scent. I make up the excuse that I took it from my girlfriend because I didn't have money to buy my own at the time.

You need to sweat when your cycling. Use a deodorant after you have cooled down and showered.

Opps, that was a Super Trooper pic? It is a great movie! I guess it was too small for me to make out, or I was just being too lazy to concentrate very hard. It would not be the first time that the later has happened. I thought you were just a fan of your state troopers.

Thats what I use, not because its 'natural' or whatever, but because it is all they sell at Trader Joes which is the closest store to home so I shop there a lot.

I too much prefer a deoderant to anti-persp. I used anti-p all thru high school, college, but got sick of the stains, getting the crud on shirts when you put them on, and that it didn't wash off.

I too like the idea of sweating as much as possible from pits. Why stop the sweat?

This above deoderant (as do others) seem to work fine and I don't stink at all (so I'm told by wife)

Al

I use dove powder scent. The 1/4 moisturizer turns my armpit into an under arm and the ladies just love that.

Before you start worrying too much about what you are or are not using, think about what makes a person stink in the first place.

Your body has two type of sweat glands. Most sweat glands secrete essentially saline. A smaller percentage of your sweat glands secrete an oily type of sweat. These glands are found in greater concentration in areas of your body that have greater concentrations of hair. Both types of sweat are odorless. What causes BO is the bacteria which live on the oily type sweat. Actually it's not the bacteria themselves, but their waste products that stink. It takes several hours for this process to occur.

The best defense against BO is to take a shower before you ride, and use a good strong anti-bacterial soap on all those areas which have a lot of hair on them. If you're taking a shower the night before, you're just allowing more time for the bacteria to build up a good culture on your body.

Like the late, great Redd Foxx used to say, "You can't just wash your whole a$$, you've got to wash the a$$ HOLE."

Here's what I do...

I shower. Dry myself off. Apply an odourless aluminium-based (nothing else really works - and it's harmless, which unfiltered vegetable oils aren't!) antiperspirant.

That keeps me from smelling for at least three days. Due to very dry skin, I can't shower daily without problems. But, as it turns out, I don't smell after two days, even when I've been out on long rides both days.
I start to smell a little on the third day.

Usually, I shower every other day, though. More often if I'm really sweaty.

If your armpits are already stinky and you want them to stop stinking real fast, try rubbing alcohol. It's one of the more effective antiseptics out there...

Mind you, after you use it you'd do well to put some deodorant on.

Old spice works pretty well for me.

Gillette Power Caps - the best by far.

I don't use anti-perspirant because you stop that area of the body (can't completely stop it anyway especially while exercising) from sweating that it was made to do when you get hot. I also found that Anti-perspirants actually make you feel hotter in the area you apply it. I use only deodorant, and of course shower after riding. Sniff sniff sniff, whats that smell?

Lots of deodorants have a high alcohol content, so you could just do both at the same time.

I tried degree, it did NOT go on clear, it left white stains on my black shirts, it did NOT work as good as Old Spice high endurance.

So None of the above

Elvish