If you suffer from excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis), the question of "how to stop excessive sweating" will probably enter your mind every day. With around 1% to 3% of the population suffering from the same condition, you would think that there must be successes somewhere. 

So over a 25 year period, I tried every extra strong antiperspirant that was recommended to me, tried cutting out certain food types, tried relaxation techniques, Reflexology, Acupuncture, Chinese Herbalism, Western Herbalism, Homeopathy and even started to read about surgery and botulinum injections. 

The first minor successes came from the "free to do" list, shave your armpits (yes even men do it), without hair, bacteria has fewer places to multiply, resulting in less odour. Skin brushing my armpits, also reduced body odour, but again did nothing for the core problem of excessive amounts of sweat pouring out of my armpits and seeping down my shirt.

The breakthrough came when I tried disposable sweat shields on a night out. My confidence was boosted as I noticed that my shirt was dry. It has taken 25 years, but I have finally cracked it, I thought to myself. Unfortunately, my delight was overturned when after only one hour, I noticed that the underarm section of my shirt was saturated in the usual way. In the privacy of the toilet, I could see that each shield had fallen off the inside of my shirt after losing adhesion due to the amount of heat and moisture produced by my armpits. Spurred on by the wonderful feeling of confidence that I had encountered for one hour the previous night, I set about developing Sweat Pads that would get over the problems of those that had failed me.

If I could create a pad that securely stays in the armpit section of my shirt, absorbs a considerable amount of sweat and shields my shirt from sweat by way of a moisture impermeable layer, then my confidence could be boosted all day long. It took a lot of time to get the product right, but what a confidence booster it is. Even for those people with huge armpit sweat patches like those shown on the website, Sweat Guard armpit sweat pads will stop excessive sweat from showing.

Before committing to surgery, try iontophoresis treatments - the success rate is amasing and no drugs, needles or scalpels are involved.