| Product: |
Dove Invisible Dry Deodorant |
| Date: |
09/08/08 (49 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Worked for 20 minutes and smelled OK even when it wasnt working
Disadvantages: didnt stop me sweating
I bought this just before my gym class this evening. I had left my current deodorant at home and dashed into Boots and bought this on a "2 for £2" offer, normally they are £1.71 in Boots. They vary in other stores at around this mark. I chose this as it stated '48 hour protection, anti perspiration deodorant' which made me think, "hmmm, this'll keep me dry!"
I sprayed it on, under my arm, across my back and on my upper hip. I actually bought two, so I did try using both, one on one side of my body, the other on the other side, I wanted to see if one worked better then the other! The review for that comes straight after this one.
Now I should let you into the type of class I do on a Friday night: its a really top whack cardio class, its a circuit class and lasts a full on 45 minutes. We do jumping around like mad people, it is a top class but very tiring! I do some gym work afterwards, at a slower pace, running etc. for a further 45 minutes. So this deodorant had a lot to live up to, I have yet to find a deodorant that gets me through all of this.
Having sprayed on, I had 7 minutes until my class, I got dressed and walked to the room. All fine, no sweating, but then I was not rushing, but I was warm.
I started the class and was fine, still not sweating, still fine. I was able to get through the warm up, then after 5 minutes, I was hot, warmed up, my head ever so slightly sweating, my underarms fine. But this was just 5 minutes in.
The warm up complete, we started on the class exercise routine for the circuit. Jumping jacks. 1 minute, then squat thrusts, burpees, lunges... after the 5 minutes, I was fine, sweating a lot on my brow, my neck was dripping and hair was getting wet but my underarms still fine, warm, but fine.
Then comes the crux, the next exercise I forgot about my underarms, the step required my concentration, especially jumping over it for 60 seconds and it wasn't until after then, 5 minutes later that I realised- my deodorant was no longer keeping me dry! I wasn't dripping wt, but my arms were damp and I still had 25 minutes of class left!
Gradually as the class went on, the sweating persisted and did appear as normal. I was sweating as if I had not worn any deodorant. I would say it all wore off by 25 minutes into the class with the first signs showing after 20 minutes of full on exercise. This is a disappointment for a deodorant that states it stays on for 48 hours.
On the plus side, it did smell nice, very very mild, you could get away with wearing this with other perfumes if you wanted, the scent was enough to cancel out my sweat smell, but do bear in mind that sweat does not smell, its the bacteria on the skin that smells, and I generally wash every single day and exfoliate every day so its not like there would be a really bad smell, but in all honesty, there was no smell at all, normally there is something, however minor and however much its said to me that its 'just you being self concious'. I did like the scent, it actually smells much nicer on.
It also did not leave white marks on my clothes, just as it says, and I was wearing head to toe black tight gym stuff. I also sprayed over my clothes just to 'make sure' as I left, in high-incite I now know that this was a bad idea, if this 'invisible' claim had not worked then I would have looked really odd, with a white spray paint mark over my torso! Lucky it did!
Would I buy this again? Well, for day time use, its OK, it doesn't leave white marks, the scent is subtle and it may well work for day to day sweating that doesn't happen when your heart rate reaches the height it does in a circuit class. But the thing is, I work out most days, so they days I am not working out are spent using up perfumes or generally giving my skin a break, so while this is nice scent, its not really worth me buying it again, it didn't make it through my class, needless to say it didn't follow though in my gym session following either.
Generally my deodorants last much longer then this, they all break down after about 30 minutes, some longer, but this was over quick, way too quick.
Summary: A good buy if you dont sweat alot
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