I assume the article is going for “we should be okay with body odor” which feels very granola. Not everyone needs deodorant, but many do if they don’t want to smell. Antiperspirant can be bad for your body, but deodorant should do the trick for most, by masking the sweat smell with their preferred scent.
I never use deodorant. Also don’t ever use shampoo. I shower once every two days. Never get complaints. Working as a nurse, I;m always close to people who would definitely tell me if I smelled bad. Not saying this will work for everyone nor that everyone should do the same. I do however think that the industry has been successful in marketing these products as must-haves for daily use and I know that’s a lie. Many people who wash regularly won’t have strong odor with or without deodorant or shampoo. I did use them during puberty and I was a bit uncertain when I stopped. They work on your insecurity, and so you’re inclined to keep using these products, everyday, all the time, just to be sure. No one wants to smell bad. I volunteer in a sort of day care for the homeless and the shame people feel when they smell bad and others notice is incredibly large so it makes sense people stick to their deodorant just to be sure. There’s also really no harm in it, but I feel like our hygiene-cleanliness culture is quite extreme sometimes. Deodorants are a real solution for a real problem obviously, but many people over do it and when overdone people reek of deodorant or perfume. Like old ladies on a bus. Yuck.
You can wash regularly and have strong smell. AND it’s not very good to never use soap.
People that bathe in parfum are bad as well.
AND it’s not very good to never use soap
Unless we’re talking about washing hands I disagree. Soap is bad for your skin. Water alone is enough to do away with any dirt on your body, and the downside of soap is that it also does away with all sorts of oils that your skin needs to function properly.Of course there are mild soaps, but still it’s not really clear to me what the benefit of soap would be.
The guy craves Stench. Just one door down from the scat room
'Cept deodorant does nothing to remove the stench from the weirdos that don’t wipe their ass after taking a shit, which is a large bulk of people at the conventions I’ve been to. 🤢
The first claim is true though. People used to not mind the smell of sweat.
That it’s percieved as unpleasant, and that people are worried about others smelling them is a modern trend, which was pushed by advertising.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8zRpRPgJNw
11min Video on the topic by “Future Proof”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1shh4d0mz0
German short documentaryEdit: Wow, lot’s of personal attacks, very classy. So many nice people here.
No its not true, there where products masking bodily smells thousands of years. Idk what you are talking about. But i have to say, if you show up unshowered and without deodorant ata fucking con and im near you i will puke all over you.
Yeah, but I recall attending a gaming tournament where smash brothers had an entire gym to itself.
By day two it was so bad that the artists(mostly women) just outside the gym had moved their vendor tables away from the gym.
