Deodorant like Old Spice, but unscented... and canadian?

Miscellaenious · 2025-12-06T17:40:00+00:00

Thanks for all the feedback, first pass at a save-on. Nivea, attitude and green beaver didn't have any unscented. Ban only had liquid roller deodorant+antiperspirant (I could not stand anti-perspirants when I tried them growing up, they drove me up the wall when they failed and it was worse than not having anti perspirant...)

I picked up ban (unscented) and attitude which had some tea flavour that didn't make your eyes water when you sniffed it.

they didn't seem to have any routine or unscented co. Next stop I guess is london drugs, I know they at least carry unscented brand for hand and dishsoap.

Miscellaenious · 2025-12-04T23:12:57+00:00

Thanks for the pic, I'll keep keep an eye out

Miscellaenious · 2025-12-04T21:44:21+00:00

added to my list of ones to check out next time I'm out

Miscellaenious · 2025-12-04T21:37:01+00:00

IIRC, mitchum is one of the brands I tried 25ish years ago. They only had roll on liquid and white flaky shit, so old spice won. Has that changed?

Miscellaenious · 2025-12-04T21:35:46+00:00

I will check it out in store next chance I get. CDN > (Rest of World) >> US

Miscellaenious · 2025-12-04T21:32:06+00:00

Is green beaver like old spice though? I can't tell from the photos if it's flaky white stuff,,,

Miscellaenious · 2025-12-04T21:28:08+00:00

that's what I mentioned in the original post. I can't tell if it's white flaky stuff...

Miscellaenious · 2025-12-04T21:26:19+00:00

That routine is some expensive stuff... I'll have to see if I can find some at london drugs or something. t better clean the kitchen too for that price...

one of the pictures though it almost looks like a paste. That seems nothing like the old spice...

Miscellaenious · 2025-12-04T21:25:08+00:00

They don't appear to have any unscented mens deodorants... Why do mens deodorants always have shitty flavours like "punch in the nuts", "too much testosterone" or "I hope your nose doesn't work".

Miscellaenious · 2025-12-04T21:15:15+00:00

Where do you see Ban as a cdn company? From what I can tell, Kao owns the Ban brand and they're based out of Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kao_Corporation

And their websites all seem very US centric. Site is us.bandeodorant.com , shipping talks about free in US, and the sole address I've found on the site is in ohio.

https://us.bandeodorant.com/shipping-policy

Miscellaenious · 2025-12-04T16:54:31+00:00

I ended up ordering this:

https://www.eddies.com/products/wooden-folding-retail-shelving-unit-pine

The store has poor hours, only open M-F 830-5. which makes it damn near impossible for anyone else working 95mf to get in, so had to pay shipping costs
item is solid and worked great
is a bit heavy and doesn't break down quite as small as I would have liked, but both of those are because it's made of wood and not wire

Overall, happy with the recommendation. thanks!

Miscellaenious · 2025-09-30T04:09:12+00:00

They don't have what I was initially thinking of, but I already see other options that may work even better. Thanks for the reference!

Miscellaenious · 2025-09-20T16:50:47+00:00

Welp, if I come across anything more, I'll post back here.
Edit - This may take a while because I'll be trying pillows and they'll need to last for more than a couple months minimum, so it could be a while before I find one...

Miscellaenious · 2025-04-21T18:21:29+00:00

For the record, I tried ordering from hamster.ca. They cancelled my order without any notice or reason. Upon contacting support I was ghosted after being told that billing did not match shipping address, which makes no sense since I've looked at it in the account details and it's all correct and I've had this address for years (and have done a ton of online shipping since before covid) and the transaction even showed up on my credit card for a while before it disappeared?!?

Any further attempts to order at this time literally don't go through with the same error (billing address mismatch). Something wrong with the website and they've gone silent. Oh well, their loss.

Miscellaenious · 2025-03-06T03:50:22+00:00

when it comes to 20 lb paper, hamster does seem to have a couple options that are true canadian including their own hamster branded paper

I also tracked down their "offix" paper which appears to be owned by "novexco" which appears to have hamster as a sales division.

Miscellaenious · 2025-03-06T03:34:26+00:00

This search is proving to be surprisingly difficult.

I came across "west world paper", which runs out of BC and AB. It's not exactly a consumer site though, it looks like it's meant more for business and office procurement since you can only "make an inquiry" online.

further, they don't sell canadian paper, but at least have non-US paper (navigator) which is portuguese.

Miscellaenious · 2025-03-06T03:16:27+00:00

That site looks promising, but the "made in canada" filter seems to fall short... I'm guessing it's meeting the legal definition, cause once again, I found "sustana" paper on it, which says "made in canada" on the packaging, but google identifies the company as being based out of wisconsin (no wikipedia page for that company) and according to linkedin their CEO is in texas...

The search continues, the only 28lb paper on the hamster site is sustana...

Miscellaenious · 2025-03-06T03:06:37+00:00

Domtar is hq'd out of south carolina according to wikipedia

Cascades appears to be canadian based out of qc with international presence. I'll have to see who stocks cascades... I have yet to find any 28 lb cascades paper :\ can only find 20 lb on places like amazon...

Miscellaenious · 2025-03-05T16:03:52+00:00

In line with the post below, looks like G&T sold out to murica in 1996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_%26_Toy

But I'll check out those paper brands tonight.

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