deodorant

At what age do kids start wearing deodorant? My girls are starting to have
body odor already! Is there a special young person's deodorant or
all-natural solution?
Thanks,
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Erin
Morgan and Megan 2/15/97
Evan 5/14/00

"Kender" wrote in message
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At what age do kids start wearing deodorant? My girls are starting to have
body odor already! Is there a special young person's deodorant or
all-natural solution?

I'm sure it depends on the child. My son started having BO around age 9,
maybe just before he turned 9. I see your girls are 7 1/2...AFAIC, when
there's BO, then that's when you start treating it. Of course, when the
kids are really young, they *never* remember to apply it! But I gave my son
"kid" deodorant (you'll see a thousand brands at the store) and asked that
he use it regularly. Now that he's 10, I really try to reinforce that he
use it every day, but I don't check. If I notice he's really smelly, then
he needs to take a shower. Sometimes I think he only remembers to use the
deodorant so I won't keep asking him to shower! :-D

My daughter started having some mild BO around 9, too, and I gave her
deodorant. She is also not very good at remembering to use it, but she
doesn't get as smelly as her brother. I just picked her up from a week-long
camp, and she said she sweated a lot and it smelled really bad, lol. That's
pretty new, and now that she's so conscious about her looks and body, I
imagine she'll become a more regular user of the deodorant.

Jennifer

Kathleen and Chris were both around 8 or so when the issue came up. Chris
isn't so bad, if he remembers to wash under his arms it goes away, but
Kathleen who is very developed needed deodorant. We started out the natural
deodorants, but she was allergic, so we switched to "teen" and that was ok
for a while, then that didn't work. She uses mine now and usually doesn't
have to be reminded because she doesn't like the smell either. It depends
upon the kids. Our ped said that the very first sign of development is the
development of sweat gland activity - the need for deodorant. That was true
for her, and the boobs, and body hair has rapidly followed.

Shirley

"Jennifer" wrote in message
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"Kender" wrote in message
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At what age do kids start wearing deodorant? My girls are starting to
have
body odor already! Is there a special young person's deodorant or
all-natural solution?

I'm sure it depends on the child. My son started having BO around age 9,
maybe just before he turned 9. I see your girls are 7 1/2...AFAIC, when
there's BO, then that's when you start treating it. Of course, when the
kids are really young, they *never* remember to apply it! But I gave my
son
"kid" deodorant (you'll see a thousand brands at the store) and asked that
he use it regularly. Now that he's 10, I really try to reinforce that he
use it every day, but I don't check. If I notice he's really smelly, then
he needs to take a shower. Sometimes I think he only remembers to use the
deodorant so I won't keep asking him to shower! :-D

My daughter started having some mild BO around 9, too, and I gave her
deodorant. She is also not very good at remembering to use it, but she
doesn't get as smelly as her brother. I just picked her up from a
week-long
camp, and she said she sweated a lot and it smelled really bad, lol.
That's
pretty new, and now that she's so conscious about her looks and body, I
imagine she'll become a more regular user of the deodorant.

Jennifer

"Jennifer" wrote in message ...

"kid" deodorant (you'll see a thousand brands at the store)

Really? AFAIK there was only BertSherm's Fun 'n' Fresh (and its later
variant, Cool 'n' Fresh) by Philip Davis of Cleveland, and he went out
of business years ago. I tried getting him to license my
non-irritating formula for bath foam --
http://users.bestweb.net/~robgood/lather.html , but he had his hands
full. His product had interesting technology; the active ingredient
was triethyl citrate, which slowly hydrolyzed to release citric acid.
It was about as minimal an antimicrobial as would work. I haven't
seen any adult product use it, maybe because it's not so strong.

Another interesting technology in that regard is chlorine dioxide
releasing formulas, as in Purogene's Oxyfresh, etc. You can bathe in
dilute Springfresh shower gel, which appears to be unscented, and
nothing is necessary to be subsequently put on the skin. ClO2 is a
very strong antimicrobial, killing so many microbes so quickly that
they take all day or longer to grow back, yet is extremely mild. It's
a little expensive, though, and the Springfresh formula isn't as mild
a bath foam as mine, but if they can tolerate most bubble baths, you
can just slip some of this Springfresh into their bath water and
they'll never know the difference, but will be deodorized all day.
(It would tend to be inactivated by the alkalinity of bar soap,
however.) Or you could make up your own ClO2 solution, but it's a
little tricky.

Robert

"Jennifer" wrote in message ...

"kid" deodorant (you'll see a thousand brands at the store)

Really? AFAIK there was only BertSherm's Fun 'n' Fresh (and its later
variant, Cool 'n' Fresh) by Philip Davis of Cleveland, and he went out
of business years ago. I tried getting him to license my
non-irritating formula for bath foam --
http://users.bestweb.net/~robgood/lather.html , but he had his hands
full. His product had interesting technology; the active ingredient
was triethyl citrate, which slowly hydrolyzed to release citric acid.
It was about as minimal an antimicrobial as would work. I haven't
seen any adult product use it, maybe because it's not so strong.

Another interesting technology in that regard is chlorine dioxide
releasing formulas, as in Purogene's Oxyfresh, etc. You can bathe in
dilute Springfresh shower gel, which appears to be unscented, and
nothing is necessary to be subsequently put on the skin. ClO2 is a
very strong antimicrobial, killing so many microbes so quickly that
they take all day or longer to grow back, yet is extremely mild. It's
a little expensive, though, and the Springfresh formula isn't as mild
a bath foam as mine, but if they can tolerate most bubble baths, you
can just slip some of this Springfresh into their bath water and
they'll never know the difference, but will be deodorized all day.
(It would tend to be inactivated by the alkalinity of bar soap,
however.) Or you could make up your own ClO2 solution, but it's a
little tricky.

Robert

Spoken like a scientist :-)

Gayle
mom of bbg (9/24/03)

"Robert Goodman" wrote in message
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"Jennifer" wrote in message
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"kid" deodorant (you'll see a thousand brands at the store)

Really? AFAIK there was only BertSherm's Fun 'n' Fresh (and its later
variant, Cool 'n' Fresh) by Philip Davis of Cleveland, and he went out
of business years ago. I tried getting him to license my
non-irritating formula for bath foam --
http://users.bestweb.net/~robgood/lather.html , but he had his hands
full. His product had interesting technology; the active ingredient
was triethyl citrate, which slowly hydrolyzed to release citric acid.
It was about as minimal an antimicrobial as would work. I haven't
seen any adult product use it, maybe because it's not so strong.

Another interesting technology in that regard is chlorine dioxide
releasing formulas, as in Purogene's Oxyfresh, etc. You can bathe in
dilute Springfresh shower gel, which appears to be unscented, and
nothing is necessary to be subsequently put on the skin. ClO2 is a
very strong antimicrobial, killing so many microbes so quickly that
they take all day or longer to grow back, yet is extremely mild. It's
a little expensive, though, and the Springfresh formula isn't as mild
a bath foam as mine, but if they can tolerate most bubble baths, you
can just slip some of this Springfresh into their bath water and
they'll never know the difference, but will be deodorized all day.
(It would tend to be inactivated by the alkalinity of bar soap,
however.) Or you could make up your own ClO2 solution, but it's a
little tricky.

Robert

Just a thought.....


A friend of mine had a child who began having body odor at age six!
She was concerned about this and took her to the ped. He asked how
much milk she drank and it turns out this is all that the child drank.
No water. No juice. Milk 24/7. He said that there are hormones in
the milk and to cut back on the intake. Sure enough, within four
weeks, the body odor just about disappeared.

So I guess that makes sense. Hormones in milk = early development=
all the fun stuff that comes along with early development. I guess
this is why we are seeing girls getting periods in fourth grade these
days.

And here I though milk was good for you.

Toby

I sure can see about the milk but girls have always had early periods. When
I talk to other women friends inevitably there would be two or three who
started at the same age I did which was at 10.5. Now this was in the 60's
so it has always been there it's just that as parents I don't think we are
quiet as prepared for a 4th grader to be size 36A bra and shaving legs to
boot. My ped said girls generally follow their moms. Poor Kathleen!

Shirley
Chris and Kathleen 1/95

"Toby" wrote in message
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Just a thought.....


A friend of mine had a child who began having body odor at age six!
She was concerned about this and took her to the ped. He asked how
much milk she drank and it turns out this is all that the child drank.
No water. No juice. Milk 24/7. He said that there are hormones in
the milk and to cut back on the intake. Sure enough, within four
weeks, the body odor just about disappeared.

So I guess that makes sense. Hormones in milk = early development=
all the fun stuff that comes along with early development. I guess
this is why we are seeing girls getting periods in fourth grade these
days.

And here I though milk was good for you.

Toby

"m.ackerman" wrote in message
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I sure can see about the milk but girls have always had early periods.
When
I talk to other women friends inevitably there would be two or three who
started at the same age I did which was at 10.5. Now this was in the 60's
so it has always been there it's just that as parents I don't think we are
quiet as prepared for a 4th grader to be size 36A bra and shaving legs to
boot. My ped said girls generally follow their moms. Poor Kathleen!

Poor Emi...I was nearly 15 when I started (I think for girls you just want
to be average, not very early or very late!).

Jennifer

would this still apply to organic milk?

pam
A friend of mine had a child who began having body odor at age six!
She was concerned about this and took her to the ped. He asked how
much milk she drank and it turns out this is all that the child drank.
No water. No juice. Milk 24/7. He said that there are hormones in
the milk and to cut back on the intake. Sure enough, within four
weeks, the body odor just about disappeared.

So I guess that makes sense. Hormones in milk = early development=
all the fun stuff that comes along with early development. I guess
this is why we are seeing girls getting periods in fourth grade these
days.

And here I though milk was good for you.

Toby