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# Your Holy Grail: Deodorant
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/your-holy-grail-deodorant-01-2026/
- Published: 2026-01-29T20:00:07.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-28T23:45:39.000Z
- Description: Friends help friends smell better.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: *Shopping*, holy grail, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:31

I've been a devoted [Dove deodorant/antiperspirant](https://go.shopmy.us/p-40566191?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) user for a really long time -- to the point where I stocked up when we lived in Canada, because I believe, if I am remembering correctly, that the one they sell up there is slightly different and isn't a combo. So I'd get four-packs every time I went back over the border and then forget where I stashed them and end up with a dumb amount of deodorant. I am a creature of habit, sometimes to my detriment, but now I am finally, finally actually running out of it -- there will be no accidental discovery of an unopened one someplace unexpected -- and there are a lot of new brands out there so I have been tempted to shake it up, even if it just ends up confirming that I'm already using the right one. But then I chicken out of exploring, because who wants their deodorant to backfire on them?!?

Obviously there are the classics, like Secret and Degree, neither of which are great for me but I know people who swear by both. Body chemistry is a magical thing. Also, a lot of companies are leaning more toward deodorant OR anti-perspirant, rather than a combo? I did try [Native](https://go.shopmy.us/p-40564708?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) years and years ago, but it didn't blow me away, but then again that WAS pre-Covid and products have surely changed since then. That one says it's aluminum-free. There's one called [Freaks of Nature](https://go.shopmy.us/p-40565100?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) that claims it's an endurance deodorant, which is appealing, as some days in Los Angeles ARE an act of endurance. Things I Bought and Liked, aka TIBAL, swears by [the Donna Karan Cashmere Mist](https://go.shopmy.us/p-40566784?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). [Necessaire sells deodorant also](https://go.shopmy.us/p-40565463?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), and I know that's a nice brand, but they're $24 each. Are they *that* nice? (*I love the Donna Karan but also it is expensive!! It usually is a good pick-up in the Sephora or Nordstrom sale. -- J)*

The big one that keeps coming up all over Ye Olde Feeds is Lume. They're most known for the [sticks](https://go.shopmy.us/p-40567475?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) and [sprays](https://go.shopmy.us/p-40567558?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) and [creams](https://go.shopmy.us/p-40564074?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) that claim to be whole-body deodorant (you can [mix and match a three-pack of scents](https://go.shopmy.us/p-40564319?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), which is fun), a concept that has made me uncomfortable since I was a kid and we were told not to monkey with pH below the waist, no matter what the TV ads say. But obviously nobody HAS to use it everywhere; if it's a good deodorant, then that's useful intel. But I like an anti-perspirant; Lume now has a separate line of "[deodorant plus sweat control"](https://go.shopmy.us/p-40563815?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) which does NOT say it's 72 hours or whole body. Is "plus sweat control" somehow clinically not the same thing as antiperspirant? Can they not make that claim?!?

I do keep a pack of [Lume's deodorant wipes](https://go.shopmy.us/p-40563420?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) in my purse -- I would have sworn until this minute that they were unscented, but apparently they're actually Cool Cucumber?!? -- which is mostly a defense against my teens, although one of them and I *both* used them after a day in Palm Springs at a lacrosse tournament that spilled directly into a team dinner. I felt like we both had to do whatever we could, out of a courtesy to the people breathing in the air around us. They seemed to work well enough, but also, the entire GROUP may have been in a fog of funk so who knows?!? But a wipe for emergencies and a stick that's supposed to last a whole day, or 72 hours as they claim, are not the same level of need. And can anything beat the friendly price tag and double-effectiveness of my [Dove $12 twin pack](https://go.shopmy.us/p-40566191?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)? And do people still use sprays, a la Lane Meyer up there?!? (*I bought some spray deodorant in London last time I was there -- I think it was Dove?? -- and LOVED IT but it's not sold here and I cannot become a person who is spending an insane amount of money to buy European deodorant on the black market. -J)*

What are your holy grails here? What can we never pry from your grasp?

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