It's the Pits: SweatBlock

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NO MATTER WHAT your style, come D.C. summer, everyone starts sporting the same trend: pit stains! But perhaps the dampness can be vanquished through the magic of SweatBlock ($19.99, Sweatblock.com).

The idea is you dab at your underarms with presoaked pads one night before bed, and then you'll wake up with dry pits for a week. That sounded awesome to our tester, who thinks she's moister than average folks.

But it didn't smell so good to her: "It was like wood burning." And though the aluminum chloride hexahydrate-based formula's stench wore off by morning, it also didn't seem to work at all (and because it tackles perspiration, not odor, she applied deodorant every morning anyway). "I was rooting for it," she reported wistfully.