Archive for the ‘LifeStinks® deodorant’ Category

Broski, I Love My Deodorant!

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Chicagoan Eric sent his brother, Mike, in San Francisco a holiday gift of lifestinks deodorant.  Wonder what kind of reaction the gift of deodorant brings? Mike’s enthusiastic thank you delighted us.  Click here to listen in on a bro-to-bro moment:  Broski, I’m So Thrilled with My Deodorant

Brothers Mike and Eric on top of The Grand Tetons in Wyoming! See – no pit stains!

 

And Mike was so grateful for finding a healthy deodorant that actually works, he took the time to thank us as well:

“My Bro Eric had given me your lavender can and lav stink stick as a gift for Christmas. It took a few months for me to start using it and when I finally did – I was super excited. It works. I thought it might just cover up the BO smell a bit and was worried about the lavender maybe being a little too girlie. Wrong! My BO was gone gone gone. Out of 45 days, I maybe have had 2-3 days where at night I would get that ripe whiff but even then it was super faint.

I have tried Tom’s Lemongrass, Anthony’s, Alba Tea Tree and some others. All of them were natural deo but they also went on wet and were sticky for a while after applying AND simply didn’t do the job. By the end of the day, I was ripe. My poor wife – she put up with the stink because she wanted me to quit using Aluminum anti-perspirant. I had been a life long user of Dry-Idea, well at least since high school or early college I think. So that is about 20 years of putting aluminum on my skin. Thank you for letting my finally move away from that and doing it without any regrets!

THANK YOU!

Mike

SanFrancisco, California”

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A Cautionary Tale About Laundry

Friday, October 21st, 2011

A call came through today that is prompting this seasonal word of advice. Long-time lifestinks® user Michelle retrieved a treasured silk blouse from the bottom of the laundry hamper where it had resided unlaundered (or dry cleaned) for many months and her pits were ruined! Of course, in her anger, she lashed out at the Duggan Sisters and while we feel her pain, and the pain of every gal (or guy, for that matter) who has made the same mistake and suffered the same bitter consequences, there ain’t a whole lot we can do. We remain your best chance for stain free clothing; but we cannot stand up to the cavalcade of consequences present in this all too common ocurrence. (more…)

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Enjoy our new in-store presence!

Monday, October 17th, 2011

We hope those of you who purchase our products at a local store will enjoy our fun, new in-store poster!

Annie, Mary & Clare

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We Mean Business.

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

lifestinks® deodorantWe knew when we stood up to the $17 Billion chemically-based deodorant industry that we were taking on a David and Goliath sized challenge. We were prepared for a fight and protected ourselves, our products and our Duggan Sisters® brand in every way possible. What we didn’t expect was to be undermined in our efforts by those who say they want green businesses, want women-owned companies, want healthy products for their family, want jobs for Americans.

Yet, some of those very folks have been spreading the most damaging misinformation about us.  Read on to hear Mary’s response to this ethical dilemma and to learn more about why WE MEAN BUSINESS.

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Dear Jenn,

Guess what popped up on a Google search of bloggers talking about lifestinks® deodorant? You! Hey, I remember meeting you at one of our retail spa partners. You were getting a manicure while I was there working and I took quite a bit of time with you, explaining how our deodorant works. You identified yourself as a blogger and you promised me that if you decided to write about the Duggan Sisters you would let me know. Hey, you didn’t. No problem. I guess. I have read what you had to say and despite the compliments and links to our site you have given us a not quite fair shake. So, here’s some setting the record straight for your readers. (more…)

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From #11 to #11: I need your voice!

Friday, July 29th, 2011

I don’t often play the baby sister card, but being the 11th of 11 children makes me a member of an elite group of big babies. Another card-carrying member of this Irish Catholic Last in a Long Line of Siblings Club is the imagesinimitable Stephen Colbert. So, in this post Duggan #11 is asking Colbert #11 to give the Duggan Sisters’ message some much appreciated attention.

Isn’t attention getting what baby sisters are supposedly all about?

Mr. Colbert, are you listening?

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Dear Mr. Colbert,

This past spring I watched as you impaled the Dove/Unilever body image damage machine. It was brilliant and I thank you. I implore you to use your acclaimed voice to take it one step further.

Please consider the story of two sisters on the South Side of Chicago fed up with corporate greed and ineptitude who started making natural deodorant by hand in their basement and selling it to their neighbors. Hear their remarkable story of an endeavor that has captured the imagination (more…)

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What’s with the name already?

Friday, July 1st, 2011

By Mary Duggan

The Duggan Sisters have had a ball with the name of our deodorant. For folks who don’t get it, perhaps a bit of history behind the naming of our lifestinks® deodorant would help. Here’s the first layer of the story. In 2007 we pooled all of our available resources to have a sophisticated website built to support the work of our home based healing center – The Rose Cottage in Beverly. We were amongst a handful of people trained in a very unusual system of Manual Lymphatic Drainage and we had lots of other healing techniques in our bag of goodies – from Raindrop Therapy and Far Infrared Sauna to Transformational Reiki and Forrest Yoga. Business was pretty good, but ever the worrier, Mary, was looking at a flagging economy and wondering how long we would survive the looming cash crunch; a website had gone from being a possibility to an essential. So, we gave a reputable designer our last resources (more…)

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Lots to be said about armpits!

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

The wonderful Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune opened a conversation about women and their armpits in her Friday article.http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-04-01/news/ct-met-schmich-0401-20110401_1_underarm-armpits-unilever opened a conversationAs the Duggan Sisters, we clearly have lots to say about armpits!  We implore you – our lifestinks deodorant users – to reach out to Mary Schmich at mschmich@tribune.com  with your armpit stories!  You’ve shared so many of them with us, please share them with her!  We’ve shared Mary Duggan’s response below…

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100% Committed to a Judgment-Free Living Foods Lifestyle

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Mary Applauds Victoria Boutenko’s Message

Victoria, thank you so much for this article. I think this is such an important concept for the raw foods community to embrace. I maintained a 100% raw lifestyle for 22 months, lost 65 pounds and experienced extraordinary improvements in my health. I was inspired to do this as I had seen my sister Annie saving her own life with a strict raw regimen. By the end of 22 months we were in high demand to teach others how to make the same changes in their life with raw foods – so we added raw foods classes to our already rigorous work schedule. It was rewarding and completely exhausting. And then we crashed. Why?

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Beverly Art Feast 2009

Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

Happy Customers at Beverly Art Feast 2009

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Fair season is underway for the Duggan Sisters. Take another look at our look!

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Smiling Annie at the Nettelhorst French Market

Smiling Annie at the Nettelhorst French Market

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary with a LIFESTINKS fan at the Nettelhorst French Market

Mary with a LIFESTINKS fan at the Nettelhorst French Market

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