What Are These Things?

Caps for deodorant sticks

Guest This is not the cap, the item shown goes under the cap and above the product. Just had to say it. J.Conway

Guest This goes below the cap and above the product, just had to add this. J.Conway

3Doug They are to seal the product and to prevent the product from being adjusted before purchase. Do you want the product type? J.Conway

Too easy to even answer. But I took one off the deodorant this morning.

Oh NO! You get these things too??!!

When I get these things, I float them in the bathtub, and push them around. I had assumed that they came only on my deodorant (and not that of other people) because I am a sailor. I just assumed it was to build the customer relationship. I am saddened to find that this is not like a customized Cracker Jack toy.

I was just starting to feel really good about Proctor and Gamble... and now this.

I would say they come off Old Spice Deoderant stick. Their function is to exclude air from the top of the stick before purchase, as if left for extended periods this product will disintegrate/evqporate due to air gap under the Cap. Thus they have wextended the shelf life of the product

Tony

I gave all of you guys the change of getting the right answer. Yes deodorant thingies.

Cockpit hatch for a mediocre 50's spacemovie model ThunderFireball XL 5 are gooo!

It is an un-aliened (for you earthlings unmanned) - flying saucer - split open after crash landing. Not So Smart will vouch for it (he only has send it on reconnaissance mission)

I was in the pharmacy a couple of days ago and a blond came in asking for some anal deodorant. The pharmasist was adamnant that no such stuff exists. "Oh yes it does" she says, "look i have the old one in my handbag"

She pulled one of these sticks from her bag and sure enough the instructions read:-

TO USE, remove cap and push up bottom!

regards

Chas

I just blew coffee all over my monitor! Cant you place a CAVEAT LECTOR warning on this type of post?

Ahhhh!................that's it.......... a fart that smells like crushed violets............or I should say, Old Spice..............god's gift to women...........I think!!!!

HaH!

<snorts - then chokes as coffee expells through the nasal passage...>

Ye Gods.....<Splutter, cough>

They appear to be from deodorant containers

Pasties...........that should bring back some good memories, for some of us older guys .

What's Deoderant????

Lonely in Grand Rapids

Deo...deo....what? <Splutter>

These are storage and shipping caps for underarm stick deordorants/anti-perspirants.

They look like the throwaway top of an underarm deodorant container...

THE PROTECTIVE TOP FROM A DEODORANT STICK.

This is the top/cap you throw away from an under-arm deoderant stick. It must be very smelly where your at, if you dont know what this is!

i got another good dumb blond joke;

Blonde walks into appliance store and asks the sales man for a price " I would like the price for this T.V. on the shelf?" Sales man says "We don't sell to blonds, sorry." and walks off. Befuddled she goes home changes her dress puts on a brown wig and returns to the store and asks the sales man for a price " I would like the price for this T.V. on the shelf?" Sales man says "We don't sell to blonds, sorry." she Exlaimes "How did you know i was a blond!"

Sales man says "Thats a frik'n microwave!"

It looks like the inner seal on a Degree deodorant product. The one that covers the deodorant in the new package, and that everyone discards upon opening.

I have to ask since nobody has till now.

1) What is a cap ?

2) If you put a cap (what-ever it may be) , why do you discard it ? you should uncap it or recap it, you can discard only a card .

I like the throw-away top better.

Well, because no one has commented for a while, I'll confirm the answer. They come underneath the caps on underarm stick deodorant. I believe they prevent customers, the ones that examine the product but do not buy it, from pushing the product all the way up to contact the cap, and thus damage the product.

I guess they would be called deodorant cap inserts. Apparently, they are inserted into the caps before the cap is put on the product. 'Shim' doesn't seem to be the right name, for they don't fill a gap to bring something into alignment. 'Spacer' might work, but spacers usually fill a gap to prevent something from coming loose.

Thanks for all the funny responses guys!

BTW, I use Mennen® Speedstick Ocean Surf. Ironic choice for me: My father was a sailor, but I don't live near the ocean, and I can't swim either.

I guess I need to make my picture challenges more challenging.

I find the notion that they are pre-inserted into the deoderant dispenser caps to be a dubious one...from a mfg and user handling point of view.

More likely, either or both of:

1. The shape, with hollow part projecting "upward" from the actual "sealing" part, functions so that the insert can be both molded and removed from the mold...and (more likely)
2. The shape allows the insert to be grasped (presumably by machine during manufacture - by hand during first use) for the purpose(s):
1. (In the latter instance) of facilitating grasping/removal/discard (one doesn't need to claw under the "protective seal" edge with a finger nail...thus scratching the active ingredients); and
2. (In the former instance) of "machine grasping"...and placing onto the top of the product package (dispenser)...whereupon the "grasping pinch," when released (by the assembly machine), would cause a slight vacuum under the seal insert, thereby helping to hold it in place pending capping of the product at the next product assembly station on the line.

As to the inserts' being intended, as mentioned above, to protect against pre-/no-purchase product samplers, the idea of product sniffers (women mostly) comes to mind as the most likely reason for in-store cap removals. In such cases, the inside cover (insert) could either:

• Facilitate such sensory product pre-purchase sampling (the insert allows some outgassing to escape), or
• Prevent such aroma escape...lest it be discovered that the "essence" of one brand was indistinguishable from that of another brand...or indistinquishable as between existing and "all new."

The inserts would also be indispensible to the purpose of excluding any nose hairs (and such) that might inadvertently drop during product aroma sampling.

It's a "Stop gap cap trap." You guys really have nothing to do all day do you?

Sez the man standing around with a coffee cup in his hand!

Yeah, I know. Us retired dudes are all alike. Too old to do it but we can give instructions all day and hard work never bothered me in the least. I could sit and watch it all day.

It used to be a saw but I changed it... I couldn't see me using that thing!