> joel strickland wrote:
>
> > Beware of "natural crystals," which contain aluminum even
> > if they say they don't.
>
> Lucia replied:
>
> oh dear. can someone provide some more information on this?
> none of the natual crystals are ok?

Lucia, there's a lot of controversy about this.  Some say that any and
all
aluminum is bad.  Others say that the form of it in these crystals
(alum is
a mineral salt of aluminum) is OK because it is too large a molecule
to be
absorbed through the skin.  Others counter that the bacteria present
under
the arms can break the aluminum off and allow it to be absorbed.  I
really
don't know who's correct, but I thought you should know that the issue
seems
far from settled.

Carol