{"id":64,"date":"2012-12-15T11:58:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2012-12-15T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T20:00:22","slug":"lox-ee-tahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/lox-ee-tahn\/","title":{"rendered":"LOX-EE-TAHN!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post serves to fill the debut spot of my Miscellaneous Ramblings category. In reading the title I have just showed you how to say L’Occitane<\/strong><\/em>! This video<\/a> is quite entertaining. The fields of lavender at the end are pretty awesome. That isn’t the point of my post, though. This is a story about a man and his deodorant.<\/p>\n

I have been using this wonderful product for years now:<\/p>\n

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Thanks for the photo Nordstrom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I usually purchased it at Sephora. It seemed the only non-online place you could get it without going to a proper L’Occitane store. I know $15 or so is a lot for deodorant but it is one of the luxuries I allow myself. Let’s talk armpits for just a bit.<\/p>\n

I usually don’t care how well a deodorant works. I mean, if you take shower often enough and don’t eat crap food then most anything will do the trick. I would even propose that sometimes you don’t need deodorant at all. C’mon, we’ve all forgotten to wear it at some point or another. Did your armpits smell like Campbell’s soup? Did people run away in disgust? Probably not. Anyhow, this roll-on does<\/em> work and simply smells great…a lemony scent. It’s not classified as a product for men but I find it manly enough. It also contains essential oils which is something my ex introduced me too. I have consequentially become a big fan of essential oils but that’s a post for another day. So…I am on my last licks of this sweet smelling roll on and decide a trip to the nearby mall is in order.<\/p>\n

I went to Sephora in the Montebello Town Center…”Sorry, try somewhere else, maybe a bigger Sephora?” Damn, that would mean going to Old Town Pasadena and I wasn’t going to make that trip in holiday traffic. I’ll just get this online. I can wait a couple of days. OUT OF STOCK. Everywhere I went. Some joker already has one on eBay going for $34. No thanks. This morning I called a L’Occitane store.<\/p>\n

A very nice associate informed me that this product is currently being reformulated to remove the aluminum. February is the current estimate for its return. I always knew it had aluminum. That’s why it works. That’s usually the difference between anti-perspirant and deodorant. I guess it was always a little sneaky for them to call this product a deodorant. This made me think…<\/p>\n

How do they test the efficacy of deodorant nowadays? Do they still do it like they did in this famous picture?:<\/p>\n

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Or…do they now have some sophisticated bacterial swab to do this kind of thing?<\/p>\n

Well, regardless of their testing methods,\u00a0 I’ll have to find something I can live with til this product returns. I don’t like anything with a very heavy scent. I don’t think anyone around me should be able to smell it. That’s what cologne is for! Any suggestions?<\/p>\n

What is one cosmetic product YOU let yourself splurge on? Ladies, I know you may have many. Men, don’t be shy. You can think of something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post serves to fill the debut spot of my Miscellaneous Ramblings category. In reading the title I have just showed you how to say L’Occitane! This video is quite entertaining. The fields of lavender at the end are pretty awesome. That isn’t the point of my post, though. This is a story about a … Continue reading LOX-EE-TAHN!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zumaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}