Aluminum Chlorhydrate Products - UPDATED monday 3/3

Hyper-Hydro · Intermediate User Joined: Jul 10, 2006 Posts: 136

It seems we´re all getting ripped off by pharmacies regarding deodorants, so if the pharmacies can provide these products for you without prescription, we should be able to mix them ourselves and make a bundle. I´d like to have feedbacks from everyone who use any Chlorhydrate products about the exact declaration on the product. I would still recommend iontophoresis over buying crap constantly, but I recognize that most people want a quick easy fix.

My foot powder is manufactured and sold prescription free by MATAS, a personal care store chain in Denmark. The declaration doesn´t state the exact mixture of the components, but the list is short and sweeet:

Talc., Aluminum Chlorohydrate, Zinc Oxide, and Solanum Tuberosum

The powder doesn´t contain any perfumes, and the text on the bottle translates: To be used after foot bath and for daily powdering of shoes and stockings.

My guess is that this compund is pretty close to products like Drysol®, Maxim®, Odaban®, CertainDri®, B+Drier® and Driclor®.
But I won´t know untill the rest of you start posting the ingredients of YOUR anti perspirant. I´m emptying the 100 g platic bottles into a rectangular food container with lid, app. somewhat larger than my foot, and simply steeping my foot in the powder, rubbing it in up below my ankles, and shaking excess powder off before I put my socks on. It usually keeps my feet relatively dry, except in warm weather, when I take to iontophoresis, which will keep my feet completely dry after 10-15 treatments, and then one weekly maintenance treatment. Because of the ordeal of iontophoresis, I mainly use it in the warm half of the year. The MATAS foot powder is pretty expensive (Dkr 39,95 for a bottle of 100 g, app 4 £ or app 5 Eur), so I´m going to look into mixing my own, as soon as I figure out the percentages of the 4 components in the mix, and where to buy them..

What are the ingredients doing then?

Talc. = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talc According to this source: http://www.luzenac.com/personal_care.htm , Talc is used as an inert carrier for active ingredients in medicinated powders.
Aluminium Chlorohydrate = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_chloride This is evidently the effecitive ingredient in controlling the excessive sweating. The WIKI info states that content is typically at least 15% of the compund in most common used anti perspirants.
Zinc Oxide = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_oxide Zinx Oxide has an anti-bacterial, anti-fungi effect.
Solanum Tuberosum = http://www.hear.org/starr/hiplants/images/thumbnails/html/solanum_tuberosum.htm
Potato Starch. This is most likely more than half of the compound, if not close to 80 %, serving as an inert filler.

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chemistry · Newbie User Joined: Feb 10, 2008 Posts: 8

I used a lot of antiperspirant not designed for hyperhidrosis, and all of them have in common the well known Aluminium Clorhidrate, and then some more crap that it should be in theory some 'secret' ingredients that helps maybe to make the aluminium make better its job.

I tried hard to look how it really works the Alumminium (I mean, the rigorous explanation) but I couldn't find it.

cya

chemistry · Newbie User Joined: Feb 10, 2008 Posts: 8

nice info