do you not smell body odor or do you just get used to it?
Genuinely curious. I have met a few people of different walks of life that I could tell did not and I have always used it, so I’m just curious. I know there was a couple that stopped using it for around a year, and they said their body actually end up not perspiring as much as when they used antiperspirant, but I’d like to know other people’s experiences.
Regular deodorant works just as well as antiperspirant for stopping scent, and if you don’t sweat all that much, there is relatively little difference.
Exactly. Luckily I don’t sweat much or smell much, so basic solid unparfumed deodorant works fine.
This is what I do. I don’t like the ingredients that make up antiperspirants so I stick with not stinking.
I generally don’t sweat too badly either, which helps.
My wife says my sweat doesn’t have a scent unless I eat garlic or I’m having sex. So if you smell my bo I just came from eating a pizza, or I just came
I simply don’t smell bad, this is a white person issue. Discuss amongst yourselves.
I don’t like filling my pores with aluminum so I just use deodorant. I don’t really sweat enough for it to be an issue, and if it is I shower.
I don’t really use deodorant anymore either but there are a ton of them without aluminum that are pretty effective if that is your only concern
I usually wear deodorant (which generally has an antiperspirant in it), but there are days when I don’t/haven’t; in this limited experience I’ve noticed I would generally smell worse if I haven’t been active. It seems like being up and moving around and sweating from ‘labor’ rather than sitting and sweating (not sure how to word that) is less likely to significantly smell. With all that said, I do try to shower after the gym or when I return inside after working on significant outdoor projects.
P.S., another data point to consider is the individual’s age, as hormone levels (generally tied to age) could also influence perspiration
Are you by chance stressed out when you’re sitting and sweating? I think stress sweat smells worse.
Antiperspirant is one thing. Very few people use one without a fragrance though. I would rather smell basically any normal body odor over awful perfume crap, personally.
Yeah, natural smells bother me way less than the vast majority of scented soaps, deodorants, perfumes etc. A lot of them cause me significant sinus discomfort. I appreciate the people who use unscented hygiene stuff.
Do you mean deodorant? I don’t use antiperspirant because it actually makes me sweat more in my experience. I’m not alone on this either.
1)I generally don’t sweat a ton.
2)The sweat I do have isn’t particularly odorous. 3)My spouse says that they LIKE the way I smell.I’ve tried antiperspirant a few times but it makes my armpits itch about the same as poison ivy. Last time I had to get some anti-it h cream because it was driving me insane. Even “mild” deodorant causes issues after a few days of wear.
My spouse says that they LIKE the way I smell.
Did you know Kids in the Hall made a sketch about you?
My spouse says that they LIKE the way I smell.
Biology FTW. She likes your smell because she can subconsciously tell that your immune system is very different from hers, which makes for healthy offspring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_smell#Inbreeding_avoidance
I use non-antiperspirant deodorant. I got tired of the aluminum in antiperspirant staining my shirts and clumping up, then I learned that the aluminum works by being an irritant that causes an allergic swelling that blocks your sweat glands. That all sounds pretty gross to me. I might re-apply deodorant during the day if I’ve been sweating, or put on some fresh clothes or even take a light shower.
This is the correct answer. Deodorant works just fine without cancer causing aluminum oxide.
You don’t have to use it, but aluminum salts are not really cancer-causing:
https://www.healthline.com/health/what-to-know-about-aluminum-in-deodorant
All calories are cancer causing, seriously. We need to stop using that term, because it’s nearly meaningless. We use it to describe something with a 100% cancer rate, and 0.01% rate.
Most people make the greatest risk of their lives, when they get in their car… and here we are all taking precautions against something insanely less likely to cause your death.
This is how you fight off Tigers with using antiperspirant, it blocks the paws…
aluminum works by being an irritant that causes an allergic swelling
That’s not how it works though
Thank you correcting my understanding! The part I find gross though is less the mechanism and more the result: that all the sweat my body is making is just stuck in the glands. If the anti-perspirant was simply absorbing the sweat as it comes out of the pores, then I would feel different about it.
Holy crap, there’s a kid at work…he’s really ripe. He’ll leave a room and you can still smell him 5 minutes later. He literally takes your breath away. How can he not smell himself???
Ugh there was a guy like that at work. Indeed if he had walked by within 5min, you could tell as the pungence lingered in the air.
I make the distinction between Ripe and Stale.
Ripe can be fixed with deodorant. Stale just sticks to the air and … oh god you can taste it.
I can see BO. I envision this putrid green cloud suspended in the air, winding around the path they had taken as they walked among aisles.
A sixth sense I never wanted :'(
Often antiperspirants create a cycle of dependency. They kill off some of the benign bacteria and favour the ones that produce strong body odour, so if you stop using them you stink.
I grew up in a region where no-one used antiperspirant or deodorant. Nobody smelt bad. People have a smell, but its not strong.
When I moved to the city and smelt post-basketball teenage BO, it was so bad.
I dont use antipersperant. I have asked many people if I smell, all agree I dont.
Aye, we know way too little about the effect of skin products on the microbiome of our skin. Some of what has been looked at has different conclusions. There is a ‘community’ out there somewhere that I used to keep tabs on that believe everyone can get to the point of ‘mildly smelly’ at worst. The idea is that you just have to find the right bacteria to populate your skin. They would scrape and swap. There were two camps of thought, separated by whether they believed washing with soap was appropriate once you had the right bacteria mix.
Bro would it be weird if we rubbed armpits to swap microbiomes
Soap makes you clean and smell good. It’s so tiring to read majestic mental gymnastics around how to not smell like ass. You smell what you eat, and soap removes the smell. It really is no rocket science. And no, you cannot figure out how your microbiomes work, even scientists can’t.
dont like the smell. antiperspirants come in a wide variety of scents and, to me, they all smell fake, off putting. i sweat, I shower. is normal
I don’t stink. People are generally surprised when I tell them I only use nothing or ‘passive’ deodorant.
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bro just say baking soda
I wear almost everyday unless I’m going nowhere. No I don’t smell it til day 3 or 4.
Nose blindness is a thing.
Nose blindness is a thing.
It definitely is, and I wish more people knew about it and would realize that it applies to them. Including a lot of people in this thread.
