Beauty Blitz-October Awareness

This beauty blitz just may be good for you! As most of us know, October is breast cancer awareness month. and many of us out there have been touched by this horrific disease either personally or through friends and/or relatives we love. A couple of years ago, a study was done with the finding that the aluminum in women's deodorant can be a contributor to the risk of developing breast cancer. With that in mind, I decided to explore my options. Unfortunately, there weren't many! What I found and have been using all this time is Tom's of Maine aluminum free deodorant. I chose the non-scented version after smelling the other couple of varieties offered at the time. Loving my daughters like I do, and wanting to keep them healthy, I purchased one for each of them. Needless to say, I think they're still on their dressers gathering dust. My girls just didn't take me seriously. Well ladies, I'm not gonna lie; it doens't quite 'hold-up' like regular deodorant with aluminum. At the end of a particularly stressful (or extremely hot) day I may be a little, shall we say, ripe? But you know what? I feel really good about using it. Anyway, the other day while picking up some toiletries, my daughter Kristin came home with, guess what? The new Tom's of Maine 24 hour long lasting aluminum-free deodorant in the fresh scent of mountain spring. I was so happy and surprised that this daughter, who usually wears the heavy duty 'clinical strength' deodorant would give it a try. It's been a few days, and admittedly doesn't hold up like her old deodorant, but she's going to stick with it for now. Maybe her sister will do the same. Anyway, my point being - for $4.29 isn't it worth a try ladies? We owe it to ourselves to do any little thing we can. It's just one small step in this giant uphill battle that we can take together.