I don't use anything with antiperspirant in it as the stuff they put in it to stop you perspiring leaves a film over your skin and that makes my armpits itchy. Then I look as if I am doing the Funky Gibbon
I just wash, then use a body spray, which seems to work fine, and my friend tells me it has enough alcohol in it to kill anything off
(However I did have some eczema on my arm that took a long time to go, which I think was prolonged by spraying this stuff too carelessly
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I think the breast tenderness is just the ups and downs of our own hormone cycles (or random lack thereof) which abound through perimenopause and continue off and on after the last period. Menopause does not seem to be a tidy 'off' switch for most women. I know I have said it is mostly at the end of my cycle on sequi hrt, but it can happen at other times and has done in the past, but it does seem to be happening less frequently and mostly at the end of a 'cycle' as time goes on.