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If you live with bowel control issues, you know first hand the dilemma that odor can cause.

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On occasion life happens and you can’t get away to change your adult diaper. You’re at the mall, on in a plane, you’re at work, or maybe you are at school and you’ve forgotten your extra supplies, or you can’t get away to change now that there’s no place to change. The crisis is worse if it is a hot, maybe even oppressive, summer day, and odors are heightened.

The shame as people around you begin to smell the air, and you’re keeping your eyes pointed ahead praying, wishing, that nobody realizes that it’s you. Or, preferably, you are putting up a front because you’re sniffing the air too – trying to divert the long hard look away from you.

Customarily people do not choose to sit in a fouled adult diaper – but when life happens and you can’t change your cruddy adult diaper – what can you do to hide the… ahem… bouquet?

When you are desperate, you’ll make use of anything to try and hide the odors stemming from the adult diaper. Pinpoint a petrol station and stock up on those air freshners and wear them within your adult diaper. That’s a visual for you!

But it does not have to be that way…the remedy is easier than you suspect – and quite cost friendly! A travel sized spritzer container filled with water and a drop or two of essential oils. Stand by – men – before we fail to keep your attention — not all essential oils are flowery smelling. So, utilizing essential oils will not make you ‘womanlike’.

You will need a regular and a small (purse-sized), spray bottle, essential oils and water. Essential oils can be purchased as a single oil or an oil blend. Many large commercial stores and your corner pharmacy carry these oils and they can also easily be found online. Many malls have specialty stores dedicated to soaps and oils. You can find “feminine” oils (herbaceous scents like Jasmine, Lavendar, Geranium) or masculine (earthscents like Black Pepper, Cedarwood, Oakmoss, Sandalwood, most citrus scents, etc).

While several of the more red-blooded scents are not as a matter of course readily available (like Black Pepper) at your corner retail stores, if you look for masculine blends – you will find that many blends incorporate several essential oils into a blend.

Take your spray bottles, drop in1-3 drops of the essential oil (3 drops for the everyday spray bottle, 1 drop for the small (purse-sized) spray bottle – and fill with water.

When getting ready for the day – take your run-of-the-mill-sized spray bottle and lightly spray your adult diaper – one quick spray will do it. Carry the small (travel-sized) spray bottle in your supply bag, in effortless reach. This will assist to mask any worrisome odors. And, because the smaller spray bottle is purse-sized, it fits handily into a pocket or handbag – backpack, laptop bag – you guessed it – no one has to know. Then, if you recognize in the heat of the day that you’re not smelling as fresh – you can shrewdly bring out your bottle and add another squirt. All people will notice is the perfume of your choice of essential oil.

An added reward to this cost effective way of handling odor, is that you and everyone around you benefits from the properties of the essential oil. As we all know, Lavender has a soothing affect, Grapefruit bolsters concentration, eases anxiety and cheers the spirit, Peppermint helps soothe headaches.

You can even have a little bit of fun during Christmas season – by applying holiday scents – so everybody thinks you’re assuredly in the Christmas spirit!

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Tammy Chamberlain is an incontinence products specialist at DryDiapersPlus,

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