This is the Dove shampoo that I bought in Florida. And this is the bottle that I bought
in Germany. No, this is not the travel size version.
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This is the deodorant that I bring from the States, and this cute little guy is the one
that you can buy here in Germany. The men's version is not any bigger.
While we’re on the subject of deodorant, or "deo" as the Germans call it, let’s talk
about how the stuff offered in America is not exactly the same as the stuff offered
here in Germany. So in America when you go into the store, you're greeted by a wall of
perfumed sticks and gels for your deodorant pleasure, and then off to the side there are
some of those sprays, like Axe, which are really more like body sprays to me than deodorant.
Well over here in Germany, it's actually a little reversed. In Germany you have a lot
of those sprays and then some of these roll-on gels, but you only have very few choices when
it comes to stick deodorant. Maybe three, four, or five if you're lucky, of these teeny-tiny
deodorants made for cute, teeny-tiny little armpits.
Which is why I bring my deodorant back with me from the States. In bulk.
Deo isn't the only toiletry item that's different over in Germany. Let's take a hop, skip, and
a jump over to the tampon section. Yay!
So in America the tampon section is a huge wall with a whole bunch of tampons with applicators.
Some are pearly, and some are scented, which I think is horrible and totally creeped out
Mr. German Man because they don't have anything like that over here in Germany.
And then way down at the bottom you have the small, little o.b. section of tampons, which
are the ones that require, um, more of a manual insertion process.
Funny story: when I first got my period, I was out in summer camp in middle-of-nowhere
Florida, and when I came out and I told the rest of my bunkmates that I had gotten my
period, they all went into their trunks and grabbed their stash of tampons and started
shooting them like, like, little tampon fireworks into the air all over the cabin. And when
the counselor came back, she was really confused about why we had tampons hanging
from the ceiling. And we had to explain to her that it had been a celebration.
In Germany, that probably wouldn't have happened because remember back in America that little
tiny section of the o.b. tampons? Yeah, in Germany that's pretty much most of the tampons
that they have. I did see one, single box of applicator tampons, but that is a new thing
here in Germany. They did not have that four years ago when I moved here.
But I did see that they have something called probiotic tampons, and they come in a can
instead of a box. I don't know if that means something about them.
So in general in Germany, the selection of toiletries that you're going to have is different
and less. In America while you might have 15 different flavors of mouthwash to choose
from, in Germany you're going to have four, maybe five if you're lucky. And in America
while I can even find an off-brand of unscented body wash, in Germany if I want unscented
body wash, I have to use the stuff for babies.
My question for you is what toiletry or personal care product differences have you seen out
there in the world that's different from your home country? And this could also be weird
things that you've seen while traveling in America. Let me know in the comments below.
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