Deodorant VS Antiperspirant

Few weeks back, Ron (my sister in case if you're a new reader of this blog) sent me long text on Whatsapp. And I feel so responsible to share it with you guys.

Memula pelik gak. The screen shot above says, guna deodorant bukan perspirant. I was like, err what's the different? Is there a difference? I'm an antiperspirant user. Is the product I've been applying everyday is putting my health at risk? Seriously? *drama mode*

I don't know who to ask so I just Google-d.

Based on the reading I've been doing, this is what I can conclude.

Antiperspirant- It prevents you from perspiring, thereby inhibiting the body to eliminate toxins through armpits. (makna katanya anda jadik tak berpeluh)

Deodorant- Deodorant works by neutralizing the smell of the sweat and by antispetic action against bacteria.

So aku rasa deodorants are preferable because it don't interfere with sweating, a natural cooling process. Dia berfungsi dengan hanya meneutralkan bau peluh tu. Antiperspirant on the other hand is not preferable sebab dia halang proses perpeluhan. Menghalang proses perpeluhan bermakna menghalang toxin keluar dari badan. Antara kandungan dalam antiperspirant adalah aluminium. This aluminium blocks the sweat ducts and hence, ketiak tak berpeluh.

Pastuh apa kaitan ketiak tak berpeluh dengan breast cancer?
Banyak kajian yang telah dijalankan mengatakan yang breast cancer ni develop in the upper outer part of the breast -- the area close to armpits where antiperspirant are applied.

Kajian-kajian ni mengatakan bahan kimia dalam dalam antiperspirant iaitu aluminium are absorbed into the skin. Terutamanya after shaving. Bahan kimia ni akan react dengan DNA and lead to cancerous changes in cells atau boleh juga mengganggu hormon estrogen yang diketahui boleh mempengaruhi pertumbuhan sel kanser payudara.

Sumber kat sini. 

Tapi semua ni dibidas oleh Ted S. Gansler, MD, MBA; pengarah medical content America Cancer Society. Katanya, "there is no convincing evidence that antiperspirant use increase cancer risk." And he added, "the studies that have been conducted were flawed."

Plus yang aku baca kat sini, katanya antiperspirant ni takla menghalang sweating process 100%. Dalam 20% camtu je and even by the best ones reduce sweating by less than half. Hmmm.

Konklusinya, antiperspirant tak menyebabkan breats cancer. Tapi if you prefer to go natural, bleh je guna lemons as deodorant hehe. Guna apa-apa pon takpa. As long as you tak bau busuk. Eh

Kalau nak pemahaman yang lebih mantop lagi, bleh search kat Google, Bing mahupun Yahoo. Kalau ada fakta aku yang salah, tolong tegur. I bakal cikgu uols. Takde berkenaan ngan science langsung. Takut ada fakta salah kenzzz.

K tu je perkongsian untuk harini. Till then!

Bui-bui.


p/s: I love the internet. Nak tau semua benda type je on the taskbar and bam! Hundred result keluar uols. Tapi kalau ada kemusykilan bab agama, kena tanya ustard eh. Jangan main Google je. Hehe

You got a dream, you gotta protect it!

It aint about how hard you hit

It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

"Most of us said that we want to be successful, but we don't want it bad. We just kinda want it."
Ouch. Just, ouch.

p/s: The last time I attend a motivational camp or whatever people call it, was in 2009. How I miss this. 






Bui-bui.

Buku merah jangan lupa bawa~

My fingers are itching to write but theres nothing big going on at the moment and I don't want to bore you with me ranting on how uninteresting my life is. So I thought I'll just share my first experience on donating blood last few months. (This is so yestermonths, it's on 12 March to be exact :P )

This is not really a comprehensive information or guide or whatsoever. I'm just typing this out of boredom. (Boredom whaaat? Finals are just around the corner.) Ngaaaak

There are few conditions before you can donate your blood. These are the terms that I can recall :

• Generally you're in good health.
• Your weight is 45kg and above.
• You're not period. (for girls)
• You're not pregnant.
• You're not taking any medicine at least 7 days before hari kejadian nak menderma.

As a first timer, I'm quite nervous. I heard before that ada orang pengsan uols sebab derma darah ni. Ohemgee tragis sangat. I nak buat amal ni tapi kalau sampai membahayakan diri I? Oh noo. 

Crap. Actually those yang pengsan tu sebab dia tak breakfast dulu. Durhh memang lewww.

Actually guys, donating blood is not like what you've heard.

The process is very simple. First, you gotta undergo the timbang berat, measure magnesium level in blood, check blood type and yadayada. Then, once doctor dah check you up and you're proven to be in a good state of health, you'll be asked to lay on the chair provided. Then the nurse will comfort you with this kind of phrase "First time ye? Tak sakit pun, takde apa lah. Watlekwatcool je." Nurses nowadays are not like before dah uols. Semua cantik, baik lagi bermuka manis aumm. 

Then once dah settle semua tu, you'll be given this pocket-fit red book. Buku ni untuk catat tarikh kita derma darah. Because you know? We'll get special treatment when we go to the hospital depends on how frequent we donate blood. More reasons to donate blood, no? 

 That was me. I dapat nurse laki uols. At first rasa macam adoy asal plak lelaki ni, aurah tak terjaga ah ceni (sebab darah tu diambil kat lengan so kena sinsing lengan ah skit).

 There, there. I smile uols. Gembira + teruja kerana akhirnya dapat juga menyumbang jasa kepada rakyat Malaysia yang memerlukan darah. :')

I am an A type. Dah takyah nak classified kan orang ikut blood type.

Selepas dicucuk jarum di urat vena oleh misi yang mahir lagi berwibawa, it took around 10-15 minutes for the blood to fill the bloodbag yang 350ml punya. But it depends jugak. If your blood pekat, lambat la sket proses tu berlangsung. Talking about experience, eceh :P

So guys, siapa yang memenuhi syarat dan berpeluang untuk derma darah, silalah berbuat demikian. Tolonglah jangan bagi absurd excuse like "I takut jarum" and whatnot. Fight that kind of feeling. Trust me TAK SAKIT LANGSUNG. You have my guarantee. I berani terjun pokok taugeh kalau I salah. 

Donate blood and save lives. :')

p/s: This is a confession. Actually berat I 43kg. I golongan underweight. But since this blood donation event was held in my campus and my friends were the one yang conduct, so yeah. 2 kilos doesn't really matter. I want to experience this. But don't do this seriously. Jangan bahayakan diri. I am the only exception XP

Bui-bui.

Eh awak yang baca ni, I need your doa. My finals are in 4 days! Thanks ly! ;)