Hello,When did people in the U.S.A. start using anti-prespirant?
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The first antiperspirant patented was in 1888, a brand called MUM.  At this time, people didn't bathe very often and used heavy colognes or perfumes to mask their odor.  MUM was created as something to help with this.  \n\nThis first product was very messy and hard to use, however.  A few years after it came on the market, Everdry came out with the first antiperspirant to use aluminum chloride--much easier to use.  Within fifteen years of that date, there were all sorts of similar products on the market, indicating that more and more people were buying them.  \n\nSo to answer your question--they probably came into popular use around the turn of the century (a few years after the first product was placed on the market).  And every years since then, more people started to use them, until they had reached to most people in the US.
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Actually they are the same except for the scent.  ANTIPERSPIRANTS, however are entirely different.  Men and women have different chemical make-ups.  A men's anitperspirant will not neutralize a woman's sweat glands and vice versa.
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My mother remembers her first pads were a long strip of (dsposable) pad that was tied to a belt (no groovy stick-on stuff in those days).  So we haven't been using the white thin stickon pads for very long, and women have used some sort of cloth for hundreds of years...  \nwell, I guess literally since the begining of time!  \n\n\nCheck the website out.
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This was first introduced to most Americans in the 1977 airing of "Roots" when an African tribal leader warned his warriors to beware of the white man because he smelled like a wet chicken.  Rarely do you hear this talked about much.  I've been around black folks my entire professional career and I've never heard the wet dog comment before.  I don't have any good explanation at all, but there is a distinctly different smell to blacks and whites when they perspire.  Having played sports my entire life I could shut my eyes and generally tell if I was next to a white or black person perspiring, but I don't know that I would describe as one being better or worse than the other--just different.
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Wasn't sure myself, but found this reference:\nhttp://www.wordorigins.org/wordorg.htm\nhttp://plateaupress.com.au/wfw/gay-gone.htm\n\nBoth seem to indicate usage as early as the 1930's, but as we can see, it's popularity among queers wasn't until the late 70's and early 80's.
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The 19th century British scientist and inventor, Michael Faraday discovered that compressing and liquefying a certain gas could chill air when the liquified gas was allowed to evaporate. His idea remained largely theoretical.\n\nOne of the first uses of air conditioning for personal comfort was in 1902 when the New York Stock Exchange's new building was equipped with a central cooling as well as heating system. Alfred Wolff, an engineer from Hoboken, New Jersey who is considered the forerunner in the quest to cool a working environment, helped design the new system, transferring this budding technology from textile mills to commercial buildings.
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I believe that this was in India, during the time of the Raj, when India was governed by the UK, the full quote is 'Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the Midday Sun'.\n\nDo to the fact that the English were not used to hot climates, and did not know how to survive in them, regularly falling foul of Maleria, until they took Metol Hydroquinine in the form of Indian Tonic Water - a horrible taste but made better by adding Gin to it, there was born the Gin & Tonic
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In the UK it was with the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.\nhttp://www.healthandsafety.co.uk/haswa.htm\n\nI just did a quick web search for the US legislation but can't find a date when it was first implemented there. I think H&S legislation was implemented in Europe before the UK or the US.
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Actually, making a pattern on cloth by twisting and wrapping before applying dye didn't start in the 1960s.\n\nIt's a practice that's 3000 (and more) years old!\n\nI've included links below for your reading pleasure.
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I don't sweat as mucvh as I used to but I still sweat a fair bit if I'm nervous, and obviously if I'm exercsiing and/or hot. I use Mitchum deodorant now and it reeeeeally helps. That, and not getting so anxious!
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China.\nCheck this link http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpapermaking.htm
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My communications class teacher would tell us we could put a little anti-perspirant on our hands and that would solve the problem. Good luck!
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Many years ago, before we had wind and good weather, wet or damp clothes were traditional tied to the tail of a horse. The horse was then ridden at pace across open fields in order to dry the clothing.\n\nThe route would be a straight dash of 1 mile either way, considered efficient distance to achieve drying of most clothing items. This route became known as the "Washing Line"\n\nEuropeans insisted on a 2 mile circular course and this became known as the "Rotary Washing Line"\n\nMany horses were able to be trained to then lie on the clothing items, which performed a basic ironing function.\nWhen wind was eventualy introduced in the 1920's many of these horses were put out to grass as they could not compete.\n\nHope this helps
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"The Rag" comes from the fact that before tampons and maxipads were invented, women would wear a common dish rag under their dresses to trap the escaping blood flow.\n\nThis has been done for THOUSANDS of years, and in many parts of the world is still done this way.\n\nAs recent as the early 1900's women would wear a type of 'belt' which worked on the same concept.\n\nThe result had to have been dirty, messy, and totally undesireable... thank goodness for modern science eh?
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Antiperspirant\n\nDeoderants just control the smell
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I grew up in a dry climate so my body learned that sweating would result in cooling.  I am now in a humid environment and my body produces much more sweat than is useful.
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Do you mean in the US or in the world?\n\nIt was first smoked by the Mayan Indians and they were around from 300 to 900 AD.  Tobacco is indigenous to North America.  It was then adopted by Europeans.