Rowena Evans wrote:

> I bought these for a few years, and was a bit puzzled by an odour on
> them.  Then my daughter started complaining that they smelled of her
> brother.  Around the same time I saw on another forum that one needed
> to wipe the tops over with an antibacterial solution to kill the sweat
> bacteria they picked up.  It did seem to work wiping them over, but I
> was further put off when I found that these "natural" stones contained
> aluminium.  (Wasn't that a Hulda Clark observation?)   I hadn't been
> able to find out what the ingredients were, though had a surprise on
> one to see the word "alum".  They are just standing in the bathroom
> cupboards now.
>   What is potassium alum, then?

Al2(SO4))

> Where do they get it from?

I believe it is mined.

> To what
> degree can it be called natural?

Since it is mined, I guess one could call it natural.  But then coal is
mined as well.  Alum is used in cooking as well. I would think that much
more would be absorbed when eating meringue than when using as a deodorant.

Marshall

>
>
> Rowena
>
> > A good alternative is a deodorant stone/crystal.  I
> > was amazed at how well these work when I first tried
> > them.  They are made of potassium alum which kill the
> > bacteria so there is no odor.
>
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