Summer Sweat Circles

Ahh the heat has arrived and with it comes sweat circles. Yes, those ugly sweat circles on our shirts, blouses and dresses that cause embarrassment and tend to ruin our clothes.

Brian Johnson – Director at the Dry Cleaning and Laundry Institute tells us that the aluminum-based antiperspirant is the “biggest culprit” for stains left behind on the shirts and blouses. The manufacturers of antiperspirants say that there many other factors that need to be taken into consideration and that they can’t figure out what is the main cause. Their main concern is to eliminate wetness; dropping the levels of aluminum would not make their consumers any drier. So what are people doing? Believe it or not, they are actually going for prescriptions, Botox injections and the removal of sweat glands through surgery and laser procedures to alleviate the problem. Brian Johnson recommends that you wash, rather than dry-clean shirts that have yellow stains. “The Stains are water based so they need water to get them out. Furthermore, wash an item as soon as possible after perspiring. Use detergent or a stain remover with oxygen bleach.

Here are some products in the market made for this problem: PitStop is a stain remover to fight yellow stains; Beconfident are adhesive underarm shields made of a cotton blend to keep wetness from reaching the fabric.

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