What’s Not Good About Lume Deodorant?
Scent is bizarre
This has been noted by several customer reviews as well, and apparently is (or was?) such a problem that the company may have reformulated the deodorant to smell better. Ultimately, I have no way of knowing whether the sticks I bought for review are a new formulation or the old one, but they definitely have an odd scent regardless.
I tried the Silver Spruce and unscented variants. The Silver Spruce was so evergreen-y I turned the gym locker room into a Bath & Bodyworks. Mercifully, the smell does mellow with time, but I found my nose so torched by the scent I applied less than I might have otherwise, and made sure to apply it at least a half hour or more before leaving the house. I’m not about to make the grocery store aisle I’m browsing smell like Christmas. The unscented version has a kind of savory smell upon application that is, well, off-putting. Again, it does diminish, but it was startling at first blush.
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Was not effective for 72 hours
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What’s most frustrating about Lume’s 72-hour odor protection claim isn’t just that it wasn’t true for me, it’s that it seems like a needless bit of marketing in the first place.
I found Lume effective for maybe half its advertised effective use period, so 36 hours or so. That number goes down somewhat significantly if I did some cardio that day, but held steady even through heavy weightlifting days. Folks, 36 hours is a lot of time! It’s longer than my daily Arm & Hammer deodorant can handle, and as long as some prescription options I tried in the past. I had my partner who isn’t as sweaty as I am try it and he had roughly the same results—minimal BO for 36 hours and change.
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This is worth boasting about, which makes it all the more frustrating that the stick has “72-HOUR ODOR CONTROL” printed on its label. It’s not that it’s not effective—it’s that it’s not that effective. Chalk this one down as a pro for performance but a larger con for over-marketing.
Not a great value buy
This’ll be brief. A standard stick of deodorant is 3.4 ounce oz. They last, I don’t know, roughly two months a pop. That’s a fairly reasonable figure. Lume sticks are 2.6 oz, though, and as such last about 2-3 weeks less. Combined with Lume’s roughly $15 price-per-stick cost and Lume quickly looks like the antithesis of a budget buy.
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