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People that don’t wear antiperspirant… (lemm.ee)
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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.

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[–] not_a_bot_i_swear@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm honestly surprised by the amount of gross people here. It doesn't matter if you asked some people about your smell. You don't use deodorant and go about your day, you smell. It is as simple as that. Sure, right after a shower of when lying on the couch the whole day you might be fine. But as soon as you start moving, you smell.

Let the down-votes come :)

[–] CalamityBalls@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact, there's around 2% of people that don't produce smell when they sweat. The smell comes from bacteria that eat a certain chemical in sweat, and the folks don't produce it, i.e. no bacteria or smell.

[–] Chobbes@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To be honest, I think this can also depend a lot on the climate that you’re from. In cold and dry climates you don’t necessarily get as smelly. When I moved to a hot and humid place it was like “okay, showers are a multiple times a day thing here, I guess.” Even when staying inside and loafing about in air conditioning it was noticeably worse. There’s a number of factors that change from person to person too… some people are greasier, some people are stinkier. You should probably shower and deodorant up whenever you’re going to leave the house and be near other people as a rule of thumb, but I think a fair number of people don’t shower every day and can get by okay.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I'm used to a drier climate. When I've visited some places that are more humid, I've been surprised how much more I can smell everything. Every person. Every place. Around corners. What's on the ground. Everything.

I do wear a scented antiperspirant because I like how it smells, it doesn't react badly with me and I don't wear a lot of other scents. But yeah, some places require more than that even.

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In cold and dry climates you don’t necessarily get as smelly

This 100%, for me at least

[–] grillgamesh0028@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

hell, I shower once a week, when I'm not doing manual labor like, say, construction or weightlifting. (which I then shower immediately after.)>

I don't smell at all by day 6, but my hair gets mildly greasy, so I wash it.

live at 6273ft above sea level, in a "high desert plains", acccordig to google.

YMMV, obviously.

worth noting that I've also been noseblind since birth, and the only feedback I have in my scnents (or lack thereof) has been my family's noses, and my partner's nose.

[–] not_a_bot_i_swear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely. Me personally, I sweat in humid and hot climates in a certain way but even when it's dry and cold I get this weird sweat where my body is cold but my armpits are sweating like crazy. It also doesn't help that you wear warmer clothing you constantly have to shed when going inside...

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah I went without deodorant for a few weeks while I healed from a rash caused by another deodorant (usually aluminum fucks with me, but this one didn't have aluminum, don't know why I reacted so badly to it). I could smell my own stink when I raised my arms.

But yeah, people who just go "natural" don't realize how much body odor they carry. I've met many people over the years who just stink to high hell, but don't realize or don't care how much they smell.

[–] Moghul@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Genetics aside, the amount of cope and pseudoscience in these comments is really a spectacle. I don't care enough to debate the point... Do they not know about olfactory fatigue? It's not that you smell less folks, it's that you get used to it.