Ducray Hidrosis Control Antiperspirant Roll-On 40 ml Review

 Ingredients:

Water (aqua), aluminum sesquichlorohydrate, pentylene glycol, PPG-15 stearyl ether, steareth-2, steareth-21, dimethicone, BHT, cetrimonium chloride, citric acid, lysine, Oryza sativa (rice) starch (oryza sativa starch), propylene glycol, sclerotium gum, triethyl citrate, zinc ricinoleate.

I try to mark the sunscreen/active ingredients ingredients in red and other possible irritants in lilac. Ingredients thought to be good and useful for skin I mark green.  Learning as I go, google is my friend etc...

Thoughts:

- Ducray Hidrosis Control takes  longer to dry than e.g. Rexona Maximum Protection. Rexona is more balm like, Ducray more wet. Takes about 10 minutes.

- Barely keeps me dry/non smelly through the night. Can't apply in the evening and just go in the morning like most strong antiperspirants.

- Even after walking a little, I can clearly smell sweat if I put my nose closer to my armpit.

- My armpits start to itch if I sweat a little.

- Not for doing sports, definitely! I wouldn't choose this antiperspirant for a work day either, I would feel uncomfortable and there are other options.

- Not a product you can buy from supermarket while you get groceries.



+ Even if I start to feel uncomfortable quite soon after applying, the sweat smell is not very sharp and doesn't hover around me.

+ Does help with wetness somewhat.

+ Haven't noticed (yet at least) that this would ruin clothes.

+ No scent. Maybe this plays a role with it not being able to hide sweat smell. But it is a nice thing if you don't want antiperspirant to overpower actual perfume you want to wear.

+ No alcohol.

+ No irritation.

+ Does work better in combination with Absolut Torr (applied once a week) and then Ducray applied every day. So not totally useless. 

* I try to smell myself objectively and I also make my partner to smell me and my armpits at different lengths so that I am not imagining things.

* I do still prefer Rexona's Maximum Protection. I feel like even Lidl's Cien Men Aqua Antiperspirant works better than Ducray Hidrosis Control Antiperspirant, but that's probably only because it has a scent that can cover sweat smell. 

Price: 

10-13 € / 40 ml

Bought from: 

Pharmacy

Buy again? 

No.

Worth the money? 

No, not for me. I'm not sure who could benefit from Ducray's Hidrosis Control Antiperspirant. It is definitely not for those who actually sweat. And I do not even have any condition that causes sweating. I am just naturally disgusting. :) And those that do not sweat as much, do not search for special antiperspirants like this one, and they probably want something with scent. You can find the same effect or better for cheaper. Like Lidl's Cien Men Aqua. And that one costs under 1 €!