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You can find all three readily available at most places where discs are sold. Taking some time to play with each and determining what works best is important. I am a guy that has little to no grip issues. I tend to use a grip bag. I don't care for the grip of rosin or the mess of chalk.
"All three" seems to leave out a fourth category, waxes. The problem that I have in the summer is that I sweat a lot. My hands get wet and it might as well be raining if I do not dry off my hads. The approaches that seem to work are towels, a wide sweat band and a birdie bag that dries my hand.
When it is cold, the problem is the opposite. My hands are too dry. They are so dry that they have no traction on the plastic and even dipping in water and drying with a towel will return my grip, if only briefly.
Two products that I just bought are made of wax. One is a wax powder that apparently a lot of strippers and stripper wannabes use. You can find packages with no stripper on the bottle aimed at other sports. The wax adds grip for a little while. The other product is a mini marker also made of wax. It does the same thing without having to open up the bottle and attempt to sprinkle it on my hands. I just have to grip the wax disc, rub my fingertips a little and put it back into my mini holder.
The waxes are also supposed to work in the summer. I may try this but worry that the wax will just melt in the upper 90 degree temps we get in my part of the world (along with some occasional directly sunlight). I suspect the wax would work by keeping the hand dry from sweat, not by drying it up, but by not allowing the water to soak into or stay on the skin. I'll have to use it to try and figure it out though.