Frequently Asked Questions

1. Is Gillette Clinical Strength for everyone?

   Gillette Clinical Strength is designed for heavy sweaters, but can provide confidence and prescription-strength protection to anyone who experiences or worries about excessive underarm perspiration.

2. Should I use Gillette Clinical Strength differently?

   Gillette Clinical Strength can be effective when used as you use traditional anti-perspirants, but for strong wetness protection, follow these instructions carefully:

   • Apply Gillette Clinical Strength at bedtime to minimize excess nighttime perspiration. An additional morning application is not necessary; you will be protected throughout the day, even if you bathe or shower after application. If you neglect to apply it at night, morning application will still provide strong protection.
   • Gillette Clinical Strength should be applied according to your personal needs. A light layer is recommended, and three clicks per arm is the average. But because Gillette Clinical Strength is so gentle on your skin, you may apply as much as you feel is necessary.
   • Most men find the nighttime application sufficient to control excessive wetness for the following day. However, if you feel more protection is needed, a morning reapplication of Gillette Clinical Strength, or the use of another anti-perspirant, is acceptable.

3. Why do we perspire?

   Sweating is your body's way of releasing excess heat and cooling itself. Sweating is natural under any condition, but sweating can be intensified by any number of elements, including warm weather, exercise, and stress.

4. How much perspiration is too much?

   Excessive sweating is not fully understood and can be related to any number of medical or physiological conditions, including hyperhidrosis. Only you can decide if your sweating is excessive. Gillette Clinical Strength is designed to provide protection for anyone who feels embarrassed by his perspiration, or unable to control it.

5. What is anti-perspirant?

   Anti-perspirants block the flow of sweat from sweat glands, thus reducing wetness. Because perspiration stimulates odor-causing bacteria, anti-perspirant also reduces body odor. Additionally, most anti-perspirants are scented, so they fight odor even more.

6. How does anti-perspirant work?

   Anti-perspirants use sweat against itself. Once applied, the anti-perspirant is dissolved by sweat, and the dissolved anti-perspirant particles form superficial plugs just below the skin's surface. These plugs block the release of more perspiration. Generally, the plugs will stay in place for about 24 hours and are then washed away over time.

7. Why should I use Gillette Clinical Strength at bedtime?

   At night, your body's temperature and sweat rate slow. By applying Gillette Clinical Strength as this is occurring, little or no anti-perspirant is washed away by sweat, and you ensure great effectiveness of the plugs. Applied at night, Gillette Clinical Strength is so effective that morning reapplication is not even required, though it is permissible.

8. Why is Gillette Clinical Strength great?

   Gillette Clinical Strength Anti-Perspirant Deodorant is made for men who experience or worry about excessive underarm perspiration. Daily use provides them with great protection and more confidence that they have control over their perspiration and their lives. Its Triple-Protection Technology:

   • Provides prescription-strength wetness protection
   • Contains odor-fighting microcapsules
   • Contains skin-conditioning ingredients to help minimize irritation

9. Is Gillette Clinical Strength different from prescription anti-perspirants?

   The active ingredient in many prescription-strength anti-perspirants is aluminum chloride. While generally effective at controlling perspiration, aluminum chloride is also much more acidic than the active ingredient in Gillette Clinical Strength, and many who use anti-perspirants containing aluminum chloride complain of irritation to the underarm skin. Often, the skin irritation is so severe that use of aluminum chloride-based products must be discontinued altogether. Aluminum chloride can also damage clothing by staining or discoloring it. Gillette Clinical Strength uses no aluminum chloride. The Triple-Protection Technology not only minimizes irritation — it actually contains skin-conditioning ingredients.

10. How does Gillette Clinical Strength provide 34% better wetness protection than a prescription product (6.25% AICI3)?

    Gillette Clinical Strength was tested in two 10-day clinical studies against a current marketed prescription anti-perspirant. Subjects had product applied to their underarms every day for nine days. Both products were applied at bedtime as current marketed prescription products instruct to "apply at night." In both studies, Gillette Clinical Strength performed significantly better than the prescription product for providing wetness protection throughout the study. Overall, the clinical studies resulted in Gillette Clinical Strength providing 34% better wetness protection than a prescription product (6.25% AICI3).

11. If sweating is natural, is there any danger in preventing it?

    Anti-perspirants are harmless. Because there are sweat glands all over your body, controlling your underarm perspiration has virtually no effect on your body's ability to cool itself. Those who experience excessive underarm perspiration have just that — more perspiration than what's needed.

12. How can I learn more?

    Call 1-800-445-5388.

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