About SWEAT.SUCKS

Why we built this

We're a group of professionals in our thirties. We have successful careers, good relationships, full lives. We also sweat way too much, and have for as long as we can remember.

Sweating through shirts during job interviews. Leaving handprint impressions on documents. Waking up at 2am soaked through the sheets. Declining certain activities, certain jobs, certain social situations because the math didn't work out.

For years, we did what everyone does: we googled it. The results were always the same. A Mayo Clinic page that recommends you "talk to your doctor." An NHS article with a list of treatments and no useful detail on any of them. A Reddit thread from 2013 where someone asks "has anyone tried Drysol?" and gets six contradictory answers. A Healthline article that is essentially a reworded version of the Mayo Clinic page.

The information existed. Scattered across medical journals, specialty forums, dermatology blogs, patient communities, and product reviews — there was actually a lot of useful information. It was just completely impossible to navigate if you didn't already know what you were looking for.

So we built SWEAT.SUCKS.

What this is

This site is us pulling together everything we've found. The clinical research. The full treatment ladder, explained in plain language. The honest clothing and product breakdowns. The science of what's actually happening in your body. The emotional and social dimensions that medical sites pretend don't exist.

Every article is thoroughly researched. We cite sources. We acknowledge uncertainty when it exists. We don't oversell treatments or products. If something doesn't work for most people, we say so.

There are no affiliate links on this site. No sponsored content. No advertising. We mention products when they're genuinely worth mentioning. We do not get paid for any of it.

The product we're building

We are working on a real product: Sweat Seal. It's a topical antiperspirant designed for people with moderate to severe hyperhidrosis, developed from everything we've learned in this research process.

This website is, in part, a byproduct of that product development. Everything we dug into to understand the problem well enough to try to solve it — we're sharing here, because we would have killed to have had it ten years ago.

If you want early access to Sweat Seal, to test it before launch, or just to stay updated on what we're building, you can sign up at sweatseal.co.

Who we are

We're keeping this relatively anonymous for now. Not because we're embarrassed — we've been writing honestly about sweat on the internet, which requires a certain absence of shame. It's more that this site is about the information, not about us. When the product is further along, we'll introduce ourselves properly.

What we can tell you: we're based in the United States. We're not doctors, but we read a lot of medical literature and we know when to say "talk to your doctor." We have personal experience with most of what we write about. And we're genuinely tired of the internet being unhelpful about something that affects this many people.

Contact

If you find an error, want to suggest a topic we haven't covered, or just want to talk to someone who gets it — email us at team@sweat.sucks.