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Estas son sólo una parte de las revistas que reportan el BodyMint.

"At the studio's Oscar dinner, Cate Blanchett and Emmy Rossum scored $4,311 in gifts: a United Airlines luxury club membership, BodyMints, Alora sticks, Stila lipstick, an International Traveller suitcase, a Bordeaux top, Everglo liqueur, Cremo Cream, Calvin Klein undies, a SkinMedica system, an Equinox fitness club membership and more!"

"The bar is crowded. It's hot. The dance floor is packed. If ever there was a place for BodyMint, this is it. Derived from chlorophyll, BodyMint is billed as an all-body deodorant, effective against bad breath and perspiration and foot odors. It's all natural - no herbs, animal or dairy products, wheat, gluten, preservatives or artificial colors. Two of the army-green tablets a day should do it, according to the manufacturer, unless you're in, say, an all-day rugby tournament."

"Prom-perfect pits. The last thing you want to worry about on the dance floor is rank, drippy pits, or throwing your arms only to flash icky white gunk. Deodorant selection is major. If you want invisible sweat protection, try Ban Beautifully Smooth Invisible Solid in Petal Bliss, $2.79. It goes on toally clear! The ultimate odor-proofer? The Original BodyMint, $20--it's like a full-body Tic Tac. It even fights bad breath and stinky feet!"

"Used for years by doctors to reduce odors in patients after intestinal surgery, chlorophyll helps kill bacteria in the body that caused the problem. In March 2000, BodyMint–USA launched a chlorophyll pill that deodorizes your body from the inside out—effectively eliminating smelly underarms, stinky feet, even bad breath. Sales of the pill have increased tenfold in the past six months; it's one of the best–selling items at New York's exclusive Henri Bendel. Even Hollywood's been wooed: Emmy nominees received the pills in their $24,000 gift bags in September; next month they'll be in goody bags at the American Music Awards. A $20 bottle lasts a month."

"Could it be that in Hollywood one can be too hot?All–natural BodyMints are a pill–popping panacea for smelly underarms and feet—even foul breath—and celebs can't get enough. "When i first saw it, I thought it was the next wave of Altoids or those Listerine strips," says Amy Frankel Nau, partner at Donum, a gift service that has provided mints to the West Wing and Will & Grace casts, as well as to American Idol‘s finalists. "People in Hollywood are always looking for a way to look and feel bette..., why not have no body odor?" The $20 bottles are selling out at LA's Fred Segal and NYC's Henri Bendel. If only the mints could help movies that stink."

"How do Clarkson and Guarini handle the pressure? Us has learned that they get some help from BodyMint, an all-natural tablet that supposedly eliminates body odors (- $20)."

"The worst possible scenario is a long plane ride seated next to someone who doesn't believe in the use of deodorant. The original BodyMint, created by Hawaiian Organics is a new twist on an old problem. This one of a kind mint was created in Hawaii and is 100% natural. When taken daily, it reduces all-over body odor for individuals with active lifestyles. Already popular in New York and California, this new mint can be found in Houston at Eckerds drug stores. So do your travel-mates a favor and go get this new deodorant in a pill."

"When we heard about BodyMint—all natural pills that are supposed to squash B.O. and funky feet smell from the inside out—we couldn’t wait to test 'em. The magic ingredient is chlorophyllin, a natural derivative of green plants that has been used for 40 years (in everything from toilet paper to gum) to reduce odors. Quick science lesson: when sweat mixes with bacteria, bad smells happen. According to Majid Ali, licensed herbalist and nutritionist, high doses of chlorophyllin help fight the stinkies by re- ducing the amount of bacteria living in those areas. The proof, of course, is in the perspiration. Our lovely copy editor, Pamela, says: "After four days on the Mint, I ditched my deodorant, went to the gym and left smelling sweet." Managing Editor Heather got different results: "I have sweaty feet, and the pills really cut down on their potency, but it didn’t eliminate the smell completely." Do we recommend BodyMint? Yes, although it works better on some bods than others. That's the down low on B.O. $20."

"BodyMint, A fantastically 21st Century edible body deodorant, is derived from the chlorophyll in green plants. Hawaiian Organics made the supplements to work in tropical climates—or during makeover day at Henri Bendel, where they are sold—when conventional methods fail ($20)."

"When I’m biking or hiking, I don’t just sweat, I smell like I sweat. Correction, I smell like a long-haul truck driver in August in an un-air-conditioned cab on plastic-covered seats. Deodorants put up a valiant fight, but are ultimately no match for eau de Karen. It doesn’t really bother me, but at the urging of those who hit the trail with me, I started taking a new all-natural supplement called BodyMint, which claims to 'eliminate odors from head to toe,' if you know what I mean. Each pill contains chlorophyllin (a derivative of the stuff found in green plants), which supposedly acts as a natural deodorant. After five days of taking the pills, I put BodyMint to the test with a 90-mile bike ride (why fool around?). At mile 27 I stopped and sniffed my pits. Then again at mile 59, and finally at mile 90. I didn't smell like a mint julep, and I m certainly not ready to hand over my deodorant, but the BodyMint did seem to take some of the edge off."

"Worried whether your date meant "mysteriously exotic" or something, well, more pungent when he said that you smelled interesting? This Hawaiian BodyMint, ($20) is a total body deodorant pill and promises to cure all sorts of smells from bad breath to those more personal in nature. Available of Henri Bendel. 712 Fifth Avenue, 247-1100."

Here's a new supplement for you one-stop shoppers:
BodyMint, pills you pop to reduce all body odors, from breath to foot. They’re widely available in shirtless, shoeless Hawaii, where they were invented, and at stores in New York and L.A., where a month's supply costs $20. But are BodyMints really all-over Altoids? There's no mint in them, just chlorophyllin, a derivative of chlorophyll, the stuff that makes plants green. Do they actually keep you from stinking? Don't toss the Speed Stick till you give 'em time to kick in.

Wake up and smell the…well, nothing. BodyMint, a pill that promises to erase all sorts of funky odors, from feet to armpits, has arrived. Claire Tanoue and Rona Yim, two Honolulu attorneys, came up with the idea for an "internal deodorant" in 1997, but it took three years of research and nine failed recipes before their product hit the shelves in Hawaii. In 2001 their product invaded the mainland, popping up in two trendy high-end stores, Henri Bendel and Fred Segal Essentials. A spot on CNN in February may have been the big breakthrough—since then, they have averaged 1,000 orders a day on their Websites, and fielded distribution requests from South Africa to Canada. This year revenues are on track to top $1 million.

So how does BodyMint work? Its creators won't say much (former lawyers, remember?) except that its active ingredient is chlorophyllin, a chlorophyll derivative. An unscientific experiment by this reporter found that after a few days my "morning breath" became noticeably less stale, and a stiff workout at the gym did not result in the usual gamey odor. Now if only there was a mint that would clean up after me.

A new herbal product comes with the promise that two tablets a day keep odor away. -By Greg Morago.

I have not used deodorant for a week. I’ve pushed aside mouthwash, foot sprays and body talcs, too. My signature cologne sits untouched on my dresser. Though I have showered each day and brushed my teeth, no odor-containing or odor-altering product has touched my skin. Im living the hygienic equivalent of going commando. Except for my little green pill.

My little green pill is supposed to reduce body odors from the inside. It's a swallowable Mennen Speed Stick, a digestible can of Lysol. The size of a Tylenol but the color of moss, my BodyMint pill claims to reduce breath, underarm, foot and feminine odor (hey, what the heck?) courtesy of chlorophyllin, derivative of chlorophyll.

BodyMint, which advertises itself as a "100 percent total-body deodorant," is the hot new commodity in the personal-grooming realm. It’s flying off the shelves at pricey boutique stores such as Henri Bendel in New York and Fred Segal in Los Angeles ---two particularly odiferous cities, where the rich and famous will go to any lengths to smell like anything other than themselves.

Curious, I decided to forgo my usually rigorous daily hygiene routines to test BodyMint for a week. For someone who, while neither rich nor famous, will go to any length to smell like anything other than himself, this was also a personal test of will. How could a little green pill take the place of dozens of cleansing and grooming items to which I'm slavishly devoted?
It was a week of living dangerously. It was a week I thought a lot about smell (both its physical and psychological manifestations) while contemplating the oddly diverse subjects of sweat glands, foot perspirations, body image, pheromones, animal magnetism, flatulence, "natural" living,

Let me pop another green pill and tell you about it.

I was brought up believing that men smell, women don't. Men are stinky pigs, and women are dewy lilacs. Men can sweat all they want, but women don't. Sure, Dad and assorted uncles might smell like English Leather and Aqua Velva in the morning, but it was only a temporary curtain over the inevitable odors of armpit, beer, smoke, wet dog and après-workout gym bag.

Which is why I started at a very young age to aggressively deodorize myself. By the time I was a teenager, I could recite the pros and cons of every smell-good product on the market. I did them all—from Old Spice to Brut to Canoe. My body reeked, not of sweat but Palmolive, Vitalis and British Sterling.

Today, I have graduated from dime-store after-shaves and odor eaters to designer lathers and lotions. I have spent ridiculous sums--$24 for a bar of Hermes soap, $28 for a Aqua di Parma deodorant—in my mad quest to keep from smelling the way a man was meant to smell (like himself). On the first day of eschewing all that, I swallow two BodyMints.

There are about 2 million sweat glands in the average human body, but men sweat about 40 percent more than women. On Day 2 BodyMint, I can detect no unpleasant odor. "Smell me!" I push my underarm into a co-worker's face. "You smell like starched shirt," he says. I don't believe him. I ask another co-worker to smell the other pit. "You smell clean," she says.

On the third day without deodorant, I should smell somewhat unclean. And yet, surprisingly, I don't. Could BodyMint be working so effectively from the inside? Well, it makes sense. After all, if you eat garlic, your body gives off garlic fumes. So my little green pill is making me smell, well, green? Clean green?

Today, on my fifth day of BodyMint, I have grown accustomed to one of the little green pill's curious side effects: green bowel movements. BodyMint states on its label: "May cause stool to be greenish in color." Boy, and how!

I am only mildly worried that BodyMint, whose glowing statements of success have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, might be turning my insides green or worse. On my sixth day with out using my roll-on, I am convinced that BodyMint is working and that deodorants are useless. BodyMint, however, costs $20 a bottle (a one-month supply). Sure, I could ditch my $2 stick deodorant, which usually lasts me about three weeks. That's about $35 a year I spend on deodorant. BodyMint would cost me $240.

This, however, doesn't make deodorant the automatic winner. I am a product of the Jacqueline Susann generation; I love taking pills. Popping a green doll is much more fun and glamorous than swiping a pasty white stick back and forth over a hairy patch of skin.

Whatever. I am happy and, surprisingly, odorless.

In the ongoing battle against body odors, the latest weapon works from within: BodyMint is a deodorant that comes in an over-the-counter pill containing 100 milligrams of chlorophyllin, a derivative of chlorophyll (the natural compound that makes plants green). The manufacturer claims that two pills daily keep your whole body odorfree. The theory: Because Chlorophyll is a binding agent, it may absorb odor molecules.

But can you really swallow a sweeter smell? Beyond preliminary tests conducted by the company, there is no scientific proof that the pills work. And 99 percent of body odor is caused by bacteria on the skin's surface, so it's unclear how an oral pill could kill them, says Robert Brodell, M.D., head of dermatology at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. "That doesn't mean it can't work, but I'm skeptical." And at $20 for 60 pills, it could be an expensive gamble—unless you have a serious problem and have exhausted your options.

Think that body odor doesn't exist in paradise? How wrong you are! Three enterprising Hawaiians created the all-naturals BodyMint, a tablet containing a derivative of plant-based chlorophyll that, when taken orally, banishes underarm, foot and breath odors. Alas. It doesn't eliminate perspiration, but, hey, let's not get greedy.

BodyMint Got Stankonious friends? Then push these all-natural, odor-eliminating, Hawaiian pills that deodorize from the inside out.