Don't Let Excessive Sweat Keep You Down

Excessive sweat can be an annoying problem to live with, and oftentimes an embarrassing problem, too. Sweat is a natural bodily function, and something we all do from time to time. Sweating is the body's way of expelling waste and regulating its temperature. Sweating during normal situations is, for lack of a better word, normal. But some people suffer from excessive sweating, which is when you sweat at times that are not altogether normal times to sweat, such as when you are sitting in an air conditioned room reading a book. If this is the kind of excessive sweating that you are dealing with, there are some at-home treatments you can try.

You don't need to break a sweat trying to find a treatment for excessive sweat. You can start by taking one or even two showers a day to help to keep your body clean and odor free. This is not a treatment necessarily, but it will help to keep embarrassing signs of sweating to a minimum, like odor and oily skin. After your shower, apply a antiperspirant-deodorant combo product, or you can even use plain baking soda or corn starch.

These products work to keep your armpits from perspiring, but most of them are only about thirty percent effective. And for this reason, you may want to wear an undershirt to decrease the possibility of underarm stains from becoming visible to other people.

Shaving your armpits regularly can help in two ways. First, it can reduce the amount of heat that is trapped in the area, and it can also help any perspiration that does occur there to dry faster. Shaving hair on your back, chest, and legs may also prove to be helpful.

These are all very easy ways to keep the unpleasant effects of excessive sweat to a minimum.

Alex Brunswick is a writer and researcher on Excessive Sweat.