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phil of smeg · Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Liverpool, UK

Hi. I'll be moving from the UK to Japan in just over a week. I'll be living / working in Fukushima, so I know humidity won't be <quite> as nasty as, say, Osaka for example, but having endured the heat of England this past week (any non-UK folks, you may laugh, but trust me it's been HOT here) the issue of sweat came to mind.

Any recommendations for antiperspirant in Japan, since I hear most Japanese deodorant isn't up to much?

Thanks for your help.

JimDunlop2 · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 2286 Location: Japan

Yeh. Bring it with you. A lot of it. 'Nuff said.

earthmonkey · Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 188 Location: Meguro-Ku Tokyo

I agree with Jim. Bring it. The stuff I've bought here works for only a couple of hours.

gaijinalways · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 2279

Earthmonkey posted

Teababy · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 514 Location: Wuhan

yeah, two weeks before i went home for a holiday one year, i ran out. i used the japanese stuff - it was odourless and about as substantial as a fart. you know when you apply western stuff you can feel it on your skin... this stuff was like a puff of air. totally useless. didn't stop BO at all. and i stank to high heaven for two weeks. when i went home, i brought back 4 cans! swore i'd never run out again.

poof · Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 161

Bring several lots (tubs/cans/containers??) of good deodorant over. Then, have your family prepared to send more over if you run out. Same goes for any specialist toiletry item. I'm not sure if you could get imported deo from an army base in Japan - has anyone managed? In Korea, there are a handful of shops as well as the military bases selling Western brands such as Speed Stick. Perhaps some of you in Fukuoka might like to pop on over for a deo run??

ndorfn · Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 126

bring as much of your favourite deoderant as you can, you'll be taking loads of what we aussies call "pommie showers".

seriously though, anti-perspirants contain alluminium which clogs the pores in your skin and can cause cancer, so I've heard. better stick to deoderants.

tokyo story · Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 40

But don't wear too much of the stuff, otherwise your employer/students will complain that you smell of perfume as happened to me. There is no Lynx effect in Japan. No smell is their preference.

seditiouscloud · Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 25 Location: Huizhou-shi, PRC

Foreign Buyers Club.

They sell western stuff, they deliver anywhere in Japan.

And they have natural deo as well as the typical western chemy deo.

Not too sure the prices, but in shops the spray deo is already a bit pricey and sticks even more so. Baby powder is not too bad.