- Right Guard
Right Guard is a brand of
deodorant formen .The
Gillette Company introduced Right Guard as the first aerosol antiperspirant in the early 1960s. [cite web | title = Antiperspirant/Deodorant Stick: History | url = http://www.madehow.com/Volume-5/Antiperspirant-Deodorant-Stick.html | work = How Products Are Made | accessdate = 2006-09-06 ]Formerly a Gillette brand, in 2006 Right Guard was sold to
Dial Corporation (along withSoft&Dri andDry Idea ) for $420 million as a condition forProcter & Gamble 's Gillette acquisition. [cite news | title = Dial Agrees to Buy P&G Deodorant Brands | date =2006-02-21 | accessdate = 2006-09-06 | first = Constance | last = Wherrity | work = Pierce Mattie Public Relations New York blog | url = http://www.piercemattie.com/blogs/2006/02/dial_agrees_to_buy_pg_deodoran.html ]The brand is mentioned in the
Dead Kennedys song "Holiday in Cambodia ," with the lyric: "It's time to taste what you most fear / Right Guard will not help you here."Ingredients
The Ingredients listed on the can are
alcohol denat , hydroflurocarbon 152A,propylene glycol , fragrance, andtriclosan . Right Guard contains no CFCs.All Right-guard gel anti-perspirants use an active ingredient of Aluminum Zirconium Octachlorohydrex at 16%. The invisible solids and power-stripe anti-perspirants use Aluminum Zirconium Pentachlorohydrex at a concentration of 17%. Right Guard Professional Strength contains 20% Aluminum Zirconium Pentachlorohydrex.
Some products also contain zea mays, which is actually cornstarch.
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