 drinking water helps but you need backup in the urban jungle heat and for me nothing has come close to the protection I receive from the insanely expensive Donna Karan's cashmere mist deodorant I think I've said it before but I'll say it again this stuff works it's a do not pass go full stop for sweat I don't know what's in it I'm not a chemist but I do know it's aluminum free and alcohol free I just wish it was free free oh and it's got a nice powdery scent too