There are certain delicate things you don’t really mention in public, unless you’re me and you mention them just so someone else doesn’t notice first and embarrass the hell out of you — it’s sort of a way of shrugging and apologizing and getting it over with.

And so I point to my sweaty pits.

I know recently there was a whole Secret Clinical Strength ad campaign featuring a high school teacher who expressed great relief about the help she received from said product.

I didn’t walk, I sprinted to Target, where I figured I could hide the purchase in between a method wall pill air freshener refill, girls size 6 underpants, and a Ponyville figure.

At home, I followed the instructions and waited anxiously to begin my life of dry pits.

Didn’t happen.

On a doctor’s visit, I mentioned the issue in passing, as a sort of aside almost, and she wrote me out a prescription so fast my head nearly spun.

Hypercare, every other night or so, she said.

But she also offered a warning: it’ll only keep you dry.

So there I was, hoping to smell sweet as an evening in the tropics when I spied the kai products at Dame Lola. This product range has a body scrub, scented oil mist, candles and lotions, plus more, and carries the most luscious scent of tropical florals.  But it’s not any sort of that trademark “72 year old Hawaiian tourist” aroma is some special magical blend of goodness that makes it fresh and gorgeous.

Between my new prescription and the scented loveliness of kai, my world is now a fresh place to be.



[Hypercare, by prescription only — go see your doctor!]

[The Kai line of products at Dame Lola, 711 St. Helens, Suite 101A, Tacoma,  253.272.4140]