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Been using the same antiperspirant for 7 years. I have bad allergies and sensitive skin so once I find one that works for me I stick with it. My stockpile I bought last year was finally running out so I bought a new can. Identical packaging, absolutely no difference on the outside. I used it for the first time today and discovered that they added some kind of powerful, harsh fragrance to it which immediately irritated my eyes and nose. Then after a few minutes my armpits broke out in a rash. I'm fucking livid.

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[-] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 34 points 3 weeks ago

This shit right here. So infuriating! I too have incredibly sensitive skin and it is so hard to find stuff that is fragrance free and doesn't cause my skin to just get angry with me. I feel your pain!

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I've always liked the idea of corporations having to send a sample to "patent" their products before selling as part of checking the product.

If a company wants to change, repeat with the new product that would require new product packaging that's obviously different.

Like, food from a restaurant is different, but a packaged product should be consistent within a very small margin of change

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Not even a "New and Improved"? That's shitty marketing...

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Fucking perfumes. I had to stop buying Irish Spring after using it since I was a kid because now they add so much goddamn scent to it, it makes my eyes burn in the shower.

[-] taxon@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Did the old version contain carcinogenic benzene? My brand did, and I had to wait for the class action notice in the mail.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, wow. $10/ea or 3.65M total. I bet they're suitably chastened.

[-] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Benzene is bad stuff. It's in jet fuel, and the illness you get from it will make you waste away painfully. In addition to leukemia and cancer, it can get in your bone marrow and severely reduce production of red blood cells.

I work with a bunch of fairly toxic chemicals (work in aircraft maintenance), and I always tell new people "Don't fuck with benzene and don't fuck with chromate. Chromate will give you cancer and give your future kids deformities, benzene will make you die badly."

My father-in-law died of the disease usually caused by chronic benzene exposure, and it took him 5 years to die. I would have eaten a bullet (or taken a TON of morphine) after the first 6 months. Don't fuck with benzene.

[-] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

fortunately no, that's kinda scary though

or if it did, it's not included in the ingredients lists

[-] actually@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe, if ordered online, one of those frauds that copy the label but have different manufacturing? Then those get mixed up with the real product?

[-] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

nah I always buy it at walmart, in store

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

That's never stopped fake products from reaching legit store shelves before. There's been numerous instances where Walmart had fake memory cards on their shelves, with all the official looking logos and packaging, and they didn't even know it.

In those cases, it might be a fake SanDisk MicroSD card labeled as a 512GB, when really it's only a 256GB, but reflashed to trick the system into seeing it as a 512GB. Which is really bad once you've stored over 256GB on it, it starts overwriting existing data and corrupting everything.

Walmart doesn't manufacture the products, they just stock them and sell them. Even the great giant Walmart isn't immune to being conned by fake products. And just to think of all the wide variety of products they stock and sell, what really are the chances every single product is genuine?.. 🤔

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