I don’t buy commercial deodorants because they have chemicals I can’t pronounce. Meaning, they are dangerous, toxic. The rule of thumb is, if you can’t eat it, don’t put it on your skin. I use either calamansi, lemon, or nothing. Sometimes the dangerous chemicals in your deodorant can kill you immediately. Just like what happened to this 12 year old boy Daniel Hurley.
From the Daily Mail at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1087772/Boy-12-collapsed-died-using-Lynx-deodorant.html
A boy of 12 collapsed and died after using ‘copious’ amounts of deodorant in a cramped bathroom, an inquest heard.
Daniel Hurley was overcome by solvents in the Lynx Vice spray and his heart began to beat irregularly, the hearing was told.
His father Robert found him collapsed in the bath at the family home after spraying on too much of the deodorant.
Mr Hurley said he had desperately tried to revive Daniel but the schoolboy died in hospital five days later from cardiac arrhythmia – or abnormal heart rhythms.
He told the inquest in Derby on Wednesday that Daniel ‘was always putting gel on his hair and spraying deodorant’.
Mr Hurley told the inquest he had been making tea while his son used the bathroom at their home in Sandiacre, near Nottingham.
‘The bathroom is adjacent to the kitchen and I shouted to see if he was OK,’ he said. ‘I heard nothing so I shouted again but did not get a reply.
‘I forced the door open and found Daniel in the bath. I checked for his heart rate and his breath but he was not breathing.’
An ambulance took Daniel to Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre. He died five days later on January 12 this year.