Extra virgin olive oil: it’s the key in this recipe, make sure you use good-quality olive oil for the best flavor.

Asteroid – Looking for a cooling tingle on your balls? Give Asteroid a try. Formulated with peppermint and eucalyptus essential oils, Asteroid provides cooling relief right where us guys need it most. SO FRESH, SO DRY®: Fresh Balls ® applies as a smooth lotion and dries as a silky powder! Reduces chafing and helps absorb moisture all without clumping. Specially designed to deal with the uncomfortable and unhygienic problems that moisture and bacteria can cause in those “Man-Regions”. Banish – A manly blend of cedarwood and oud that smells incredibly rugged while it combats ball sweat and odor. With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to help our newer readers discover some of the best, evergreen gems from the past. This article was originally published in August 2013.Eliminating ball odor and funk starts with preventing sweat. Galaxy Dust Body Powder is formulated with highly effective moisture managing ingredients including: cornstarch, arrowroot powder, kaolin clay, French green clay, and dead sea clay. Not only does this unique blend of powders eliminate sweat, but they also keep odor and friction at bay. Not only does Chassis Ice Powder keep you dry and smelling clean, but it also provides a blast of cooling relief right where us guys need it most. Our balls! And if the Ice version doesn’t appeal to you, you might want to consider one of Chassis’ other deodorizing ball powders:

Add to an airtight container and store in the fridge for a minimum of 1 hour before serving to allow the flavours to develop. I learned about the secret swamp crotch preventing capabilities of cornstarch when I lived in Tijuana over a decade ago. Because I spent most my days walking from sun up to sun down in the hot Baja California sun, swamp crotch was a big problem. On a particularly hot day, I ran out of Gold Bond Powder and wasn’t looking forward to the chafing I would be encountering. I mentioned it to my Mexican friend and he suggested I sprinkle on some cornstarch. If you want decent swamp crotch protection, make sure to spring for a talcum-based baby powder. Cornstarch-based powder didn’t last that long . . . for me anyways.In my book, there are so many dishes that can be improved with mozzarella. I keep this fresh, versatile cheese in my fridge at all times for the most delicious mozzarella recipes, including pizza (of course!), caprese skewers, salad and last minute bruschetta. Add the herbs, the garlic, the seasoning and the olive oil in a bowl and mix all the ingredients until well combined. If you’ve ever had the unpleasant experience of using a cheap body powder that clumps in all the wrong places, you know how uncomfortable it can be. There’s nothing worse than using a grooming product to alleviate a specific problem, only to have it create a whole new one. Thankfully Comfy Boys doesn’t present that problem. This fast drying lotion applies smoothly and easily, and does it’s job without any clumping, grittiness, or unpleasantness. What I don’t like: The only downside I’ve found with Gold Bond Powder (and all body powders) is the mess. The stuff has a tendency to end up everywhere even though you were only aiming for your nether regions. My two-year-old, Gus, got his hands on the shaker one day, gave it a firm squeeze, and in two seconds it looked like Tony Montana sneezed all over my closet. Another mess factor that all body/ball powders have is a tendency to sift through cotton fabrics, causing the user to leave behind white butt imprints on whatever piece of furniture they happened to be sitting on. Aqua, Helianthus Annus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Cetyl Alcohol, Glycerol Monostearate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glycerine, Petrolatum, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Isopropyl Myristate, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Polysorbate 60, Sorbitan Monostearate, Glyceryl Stearate and Peg 100 Stearate, Tocopherol, Carbomer, Triethanolamine, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerine, Parfum, Linalool, Limonene, Coumarin.

While this isn’t the cheapest deodorant for balls on this list, it does however last a long time. That’s because you really don’t need to use much for it to do its job effectively. Just a light coating on clean balls is enough to keep you dry and smelling clean all day. Expect roughly 4 months of daily use per bottle. As a lifelong resident of perpetually hot and humid Oklahoma, I’ve had to battle swamp crotch every summer for most of my life. And I know that there are millions of men out there who are also suffering silently from this summertime malady. Eclipse – Prefer stealth mode? Eclipse is for you. It contains no scent or fragrance but will keep your balls fresh and dry all day. It’s hard to take a product called Fresh Balls seriously. I’ll admit I was dubious about its effectiveness when I first tried it, but this lotion lives up to its name. I’m a fan. I figured you could also use this talcum-based powder as a swamp crotch defender and I was correct. This was one of my favorite powders during my tests. It kept me dry down “there” all day and best of all, my crotch smelled like a barbershop. Bully!Planet X – Want to step up the cooling relief? Planet X offers 2x the cooling relief as their Asteroid body powder. Dry+Goods Athletic Spray is a no-mess powder spray that keeps you dry and cool all day long. It was one of my favorite products throughout the testing period. The type I bought doesn’t have much of a scent, which was fine. Dry+Goods does offer a menthol version to give you that nice, tingling feeling when you apply it. Wetness protection was fantastic. One application in the morning was all I needed.