Allergic to Beeswax Chafe cream?

[OakLeaf]

Natural food stores, some drug stores, some garden stores.

[colorisnt]

I will try order online. No health stores here (no health haha) and not available at the drugstores here. Just asked mom's friend (who is a skincare specialist) and she says get it online.

[Owlie]

I was going to suggest the lanolin as well.

[colorisnt]

I don't know about the lanolin still, but probably best just to try the advice about shea butter. I ordered some online and am waiting for it to get here.

[ny biker]

Curious about the shea butter -- any problems washing it out of your shorts, especially the chamois?

I've used Chamois Butt'r for years, and have no problems with it on my butt where I need it most. But recently I've had chafing with the seams in the front of my shorts. The Chamois Butt'r solves that problem, but also causes a rash of tiny red spots a couple of days later.

[Catrin]

Curious about the shea butter -- any problems washing it out of your shorts, especially the chamois?

I've used Chamois Butt'r for years, and have no problems with it on my butt where I need it most. But recently I've had chafing with the seams in the front of my shorts. The Chamois Butt'r solves that problem, but also causes a rash of tiny red spots a couple of days later.

I have used 100% Shea butter as a chamois cream several times, and it had a quite noticeable odor. I also had to wash my shorts several times, with Shout, to get the odor out.

I have had that container of shea butter for some time so perhaps it is just too old - but am unsure that actually happens The stuff is expensive, so I don't want to purchase another container of it as an experiment. It seemed to work fine though.

[OakLeaf]

I've used Pré de Provence and Organic Essence brand shea butters. They both have a very slight scent, kind of a lard-ish smell. If you put your nose right in the tub, the smell is distinct, but I would never notice it from farther away, in the quantities that I use it. Certainly not among all the other aromas of long distance cycling.

There might be a little bit of whitish residue that doesn't always come out of my chamois in Ohio, but my tap water is very cold. It seems to come out completely in Florida where the tap water is closer to 70°F. It's no more residue than I've experienced with any other lubricant that actually, you know, works rather than dissolving in my sweat. I figure that anything water-soluble comes out in the wash and any part of the shea butter that isn't water-soluble won't hurt me, particularly since I dry my shorts in the sun (probably not the best thing for the fabric, but one of my few concessions to modern bacteriophobia).