About Deodarants

These are two of my favorite deodorants on the market. I am a heavy sweater. I sweat when I play sports, when I get nervous, and when I even think about ruining my clothes from yellow stains. I’ve tried all kinds of deodorants from Sure to Certain Dri. Among all of the deodorants that I have tried, these two, Degree and Soft & Dri remain at the top of my list of good deodorants. However, even though they are both effective, they are both very different.
Soft & Dri is probably more linked to being a feminine deodorant. After all it’s name is “Soft” and “Dri” However, in spite of its feminine name, its powder soft variety does not smell much like powder at all. In fact, this variety has more of a floral smell which makes the title a bit misleading. After the soft and dri powder soft scent is put on the skin, it sits and dries pretty quickly. However, sweating is the distinctive test with deodorants of all kinds. After sweating, the floral smell of soft & dri begins to diminish and you are left smelling a bit unpleasant with a hint of floral of course. If you can take smelling like a mixture of sweat with a bit of powder soft floral mixed in, this deodorant might be for you. Of course, everyone smells like sweat when they sweat. The key is not to smell like funk.
Degree on the other hand has a powder variety that smells just like power. It smells fresh and good to the last drop. When you put Degree on your skin, it takes a little more time to dry than Soft & Dri. However, as I said before, the real test arrives when you start sweating. After sweating with Degree on, the just showered powder freshness does begin to diminish as it does with Soft and Dri. However, Degree leaves you smelling like a different version of powder fresh and nothing like sweat. I would say that the scent is more of a heated up powder fresh. In the commercial for Degree, the slogan is “You’re body heat turns it on.” I completely agree with that statement. Your body heat does turn Degree on. Once you start to sweat, it seems that all of a sudden you can smell the deordorant’s scent like you never smelled it before. It’s as if you are not sweaty, you just have some scented deodorant on.
In spite of the fact that Soft & Dri does not have the same scent effectiveness as Degree does, I still like Soft & Dri and keep going back to it. One reason I do this is because the spray version of Soft & n Dri is wonderful. When I used that I never had to worry about yellow stains getting on my clothing. For some reason, this version of Soft & Dri prevented yellow stains from getting on my clothing. Another reason why I like Soft & Dri is because it does really smell feminine at least when you first put it on. After you start sweating, the scent changes a bit, but overall it leaves me feeling drier than I do when I put on Degree.
Degree is good because it’s scent lasts through the sweatiest of moments and its scents are truer to what they are called on the label. In fact, out of all of the deodorants I have tried which include Secret, Lady speed stick, Mitchum, Sure and other, Degree has the longest lasting scent out of all of these. However, I still keep a bottle of Soft & Dri on my desk when I want to feel pretty, feminine, and—soft.

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