fitnessprincess’s BodyBlog

Answer:  Bikini Bite.   I decided to write this post because a) Bodybuilding.com sent me an email requesting a review (I recently bought a bottle through them); and 2) a friend asked me how I kept my suit in place at my recent competition.  I remember when I started out wondering the same thing myself and I had never heard of Bikini Bite.  So here goes!

This post is going to be a bit of a rant and hopefully at the same time it will educate some of you concerning household products.  Some of you are laughing but apparently there are a number of women in figure (and maybe men in bodybuilding) who are gluing their suits to their butts with 3M adhesive spray or other home repair products like Elmer’s spray craft glue.  Me, well, it never would have occurred to me in a million years that anyone would be stupid enough to do this butt (bad pun!) apparently this is common practice.  The logic goes as follows:  Bikini bite doesn’t work for me and someone told me this works.  Yeah? And if they told you to drink poison, you would do that, too?  I don’t think so  so tell me why you are willing to blindly do this?  It makes no sense to me.  Didn’t your mother ever tell you not to use a product in any way other than as described on the packaging?  Well, she goes to the head of the class on this one!  Listen to her for pete’s sake!  She’s got a great head on her shoulders and I hope you told her that today, too.  If not make sure you do before you go to sleep tonight!

When in doubt guys, go on the internet to the manufacturer’s website and obtain the product’s material safety data sheet (msds).  Material Safety Data Sheets are intended to provide information on the properties (physical, chemical, environmental, and toxicological), handling, and transport of chemical reagents.   An important point to make is that the msds has been written to provide the reader info under the assumption that the user is going to use the product as the manufacturer intended, i.e., an msds isn’t going to provide advice to idiots who intend to misuse the product.  If the msds says you should wear gloves when handling the product then that’s a good indication that the product is can be absorbed through your skin which is an organ and represents a direct transport system to the blood stream.  If the msds tells you the product can be absorbed through the skin and cause “target organ effects” your brain should tell you:  applying this product to my butt is a dumb and dangerous idea.  Hmmm I think I should use Bikini Bite instead.  Enough said.