In the beginning there was "Mum" which required you to dip a few fingers into a round jar of creamy white goo and manually apply to the underarm area. New products came along gradually, and followed in Mum's formula. Then the breakthrough! No longer necessary to be so intimate with your deodorant. Along came Ban!
Now you could apply the stuff, which had mutated to a pinkish, semi-opaque sticky substance, with a gliding ball. The container was upright rather than round and about the size of a Pez container. Rather than flipping the lid, there was a regular twist - off cap that, when removed, exposed an opalescent rotating ball, about the size of a large marble. This was so cool.
Eventually, deodorants could be found in aerosol spray cans, but these gaseous disasters were gradually phased out. Besides, if you didn't aim was not exactly accurate, you'd end up with fluorocarbons in your eye.
Then finally, solid roll-ons, but for the most part, these left a cake-like residue between your skin and your clothing. Eventually at the beginning of the 21st century, you could purchase a solid roll-on that kept you dry, eliminated odor and did not leave white creases on your "little black dress." Of course, for about the last 50 or 60 years a multitude of various scents have been available -- so we won't even go down that avenue. Actually, I prefer "unscented," but Pure Oxygen is okay.
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