Reviews the science, technology, testing, and marketing of products to reduce perspiration and body odor, updated with new information on regulatory issues, questions about safety and toxicology, skin microorganisms, odor generation, and sweat gland physiology that has emerged in the ten years since the first edition. Discusses such topics as formulations, relevant patent technologies, the chemistry of higher efficacy aluminum and aluminum/zirconium salts and of basic aluminum complexes, the structure of the human eccrine sweat gland with a new section on the apocrine sweat gland, emerging international regulatory standards, the microbiology of the axilla and the odors it produces, clinical evaluation, and ingredients. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
