Do I detect a hint of minty freshness? (Original Source Antiperspirant)

Member Name: Diaz

Product:	Original Source Antiperspirant
Date:	01/08/01 (122 review reads)
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Advantages: Minty if you could call it an advantage

Disadvantages: It doesn't work, It makes your pits sore

This is going to be a lazy plagiaristic kind of op since I’m in a lazy plagiaristic kind of mood, don’t worry about sending the police after me since I’m actually only going plagiarise myself I don’t think it really counts. The reason for this is because I’ve written sooo many ops about these products it seems to be a waste of my time to think of another way to tell you the story of Ellen Wakeman (who the bally hell is Ellen Wakeman?)

So what is the product then, well its Original Source Tea tree and Mint roll on antiperspirant. There are a few things I suppose you’d want to know about this.

What does it smell of? Well I suppose that’s pretty obvious, mint, its kind of a cross between Polo and spearmint gum in its strength, that’s because it uses peppermint oil in it. I suppose the right kind of mintiness I’m looking for really ought to be pepperminty, but that didn’t occur to me when I started writing, I told you I’m feeling lazy…. There is also a herbal undertone, which has something to do with the tea tree, this is altogether not unpleasant

How does it feel? Sensation is (if you know anything about OS products) the key. The roll on is no different; the difference being is the sensation is in your armpit. It feels a little unpleasantly like brushing your teeth but in your armpit, tingly is the word I’m yet again fumbling for. Is this a good thing? Do you like armpits being toothbrushed? I’m not sure I do either.

Does it work? After a couple of hours the initial minty (just brushed your armpits) freshness has worn off and after a couple more hours so has its antiperspirant effects. Which if you ask me isn’t what I’m looking for in a personal hygiene product. Go on ask me, next time you see me, just try it…..

Now as with most of the OS products this uses essential oils, which can be a good thing, peppermint is
meant to be stimulating and invigorating, just the right thing to raise your mood, mingle that with a bit of underarm sweat and it doesn’t have quite the same effect. Tea tree has antiseptic qualities, which I suppose if you had really bad problems could well be a bonus. Though if I know anything about bacteria (and I do, a little anyway) habitually using an antiseptic on your pits is only going to toughen up anything that survives and the chances are it’s these bacteria that are going to cause the pong.

Generally this kind of product usually has guidance on it, beyond the obvious raise your arm and apply in a broad stroke guff, namely don’t apply it to broken or sore skin. This applies doubly for products containing essential oils, let me tell you it stings like Billy-O (I’m running out of expletives here and I’ve no idea if that is spelt right, please advise) so I wouldn’t recommend it.

Overall is it a good product? I really don’t think it is, I love the shampoos and the shower gels (read my other ops for the evidence) but having minty freshness in your pits just doesn’t feel right. Above all that, if it worked it’d be OK, but it doesn’t so it doesn’t get my seal of approval, which I’m sure has the managing directors of OS quaking in their boots.

Now here comes the lazy cut and paste job, the history of Ellen Wakeman, wait for it it’s a doozy……


Snippety snip

“There’s a back-story to this company, basically they base their products on recipes invented by Ellen Wakeman. Apparently her life story was found gathering dust in a museum. A bit of a folk heroine, she was a Victorian Australian missionaries' daughter whose life and adventures caused more than a little scandal in polite society. She was even immortalized in a bushman's song as 'A sheila with more balls than the blokes,' she left her fa
mily disgraced when she ran away to join the Gold Rush in 1857.

Ellen persuaded a barber to take her on as his apprentice. There she learnt about the healing properties of the plants that grow in the Outback. Ellen then took on a string of wealthy husbands that ended up in a court case for bigamy. She later left for England with her parents and took to writing her story and recipes in a diary, this work was completed shortly before her death off the coast of Africa.”

Now after all my persuasive powers, or anti- persuasive in this case, if you still want to buy it you should be able to buy the stuff from the following shops; Boots, Superdrug, Tesco, Savacentre and Morrisons at £1.49 for 50ml. Further details can be found on the website http://www.originalsource.co.uk

That wasn't so lazy after all, was it??

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