The smell of deodorant

or icecream - YUM.

Doesn't using anti-perspirant freak you guys out, what with the un-natural pore clogging action and all?

Baby powder scent sounds all right.

I have qualms about using anti-perspriant. If for no other reason than the aluminum in it can stain shirts. But I just don't like constantly having sweat dripping down me during the summertime.

cprek, I have indeed used said hippie deoderant. It was middle school. I was confused. I wore loose blouses and long earrings. You run the salt rock under water and then put it under your arms. It is not the greatest because:
1- Sometimes it sort of scratches you if it gets chipped.
2- It smells like salt. And so does sweat. So what's the point?

Personally, I've always used Old Spice High Endurance deoderant. I like the smell, and will probably use it everyday until the day I die.

The crystal (salt) deodorants work by inhibiting the bacteria growth. The anti-perspirants work by clogging ur pores so no sweat comes out. Deodorants are usually a combo of one of theses plus smelly stuff - which is meant to mask any yukky smell.

Anyway, I never used to have any problem at all but I guess I rubbed up against the wrong stinker and some bacteria transferred or summat. Thankfully not very much by the smell of things!

Defying a culture of clean that has prevailed at least since the 1940s, a contingent of renegades deliberately forgoes daily bathing and other gold standards of personal hygiene, like frequent shampooing and deodorant use.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/fashion/31Unwashed.html?ref=fashion

this whole article = http://i40.tinypic.com/24o34oo.jpg

I don't shower that much but I have dry earwax so

str8 up j0rdan when you tour in the loftpunk scene, you are assuredly the odd man out in any band if you bring a stick of deodorant and try to shower every night.

another reason to not go to indie rock shows

also, the younger the audience the stinkier the crowd. like Dan Deacon/Japanther/Ninjasonik shows full of 19 year olds is like bring a fucken gas mask

jesus, man

i remember in the bon iver interview w/ pfork about working with kanye he said something like "i'm just a dude in a t shirt that smells like shit" and i was like "why wouldn't you just take a shower? how is this a point of pride?"

it just feels gross not to shower, regardless of if you're a smelly person or not

like this whole article is hilar to me because the "ppl don't use deo or shower alot" quasi-"narrative" is like pretty much a.k.a. "my immediate surroundings and about half of my friends" for the last 8 years

(Mr. Felix admitted that he lives in horror of having the rare fetid day.)
(Mr. Felix admitted that he lives in horror of having the rare fetid day.)
(Mr. Felix admitted that he lives in horror of having the rare fetid day.)
(Mr. Felix admitted that he lives in horror of having the rare fetid day.)
(Mr. Felix admitted that he lives in horror of having the rare fetid day.)
(Mr. Felix admitted that he lives in horror of having the rare fetid day.)
(Mr. Felix admitted that he lives in horror of having the rare fetid day.)
(Mr. Felix admitted that he lives in horror of having the rare fetid day.)
(Mr. Felix admitted that he lives in horror of having the rare fetid day.)

When her underwear came off, I immediately noticed that the waxing trend had completely passed her by.
When her underwear came off, I immediately noticed that the waxing trend had completely passed her by.
When her underwear came off, I immediately noticed that the waxing trend had completely passed her by.
When her underwear came off, I immediately noticed that the waxing trend had completely passed her by.
When her underwear came off, I immediately noticed that the waxing trend had completely passed her by.
When her underwear came off, I immediately noticed that the waxing trend had completely passed her by.
When her underwear came off, I immediately noticed that the waxing trend had completely passed her by.

what's the argument against using deodorant? just some pseudo-science bullshit? at least showering is a thing that you have to do and laziness is at least an understandable excuse

• aluminum/cancer/alzheimer shit
• not supporting corporations who invent body shame to sell products
• saving money, etc.

pretty sure there's no shortage of noise board dudes who could shed some light once the halloween hangovers wear off

all of those reasons = bullshit unless you're actually homeless

i don't use deodorant every day but, like, i own a stick of deodorant

u stink tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtSpNJ76_UU

http://redactie.wuz.nl/multimedia/archive/00193/stank_193345b.jpg

Cannot imagine life without daily showers (sometimes twice-daily) and deodorant. If this is body shame, I will live with it proudly.

With Tom's of Maine and various hippie deodorants, I don't see how the aluminum (which is an anti-perspirant issue) and corporate arguments stand up.

it just feels gross not to shower, regardless of if you're a smelly person or not

― my dark twisted fennessey (J0rdan S.), Saturday, October 30, 2010 11:37 PM (Yesterday)

on the other hand, the shower facilities where some of my friends live/used to live are even grosser - there should be some website devoted to pictures of punk warehouse bathrooms.

and the deodorant thing - some of it is related to something one of the people in the article mentioned which is learning to appreciate one's own scent. There's also this way of thinking where one's "natural scent" is largely a product of what one eats/drinks and there are people that modify their diet to improve said body odor.

Donna
Cornwall, U.K.
October 31st, 2010
11:14 am
Two quick comments here:

1) As an expat Greek-American who showers and shampoos daily (my Mediterranean skin can take it), I come into constant contact with Brits who have no problem sharing their natural oils with the world. Sorry, forget about underarm B.O.: the stale pong of oily hair and oily skin are JUST as off-putting.

2) As for people who are oblivious to their own stink: there was a French student in my MBA class years ago who managed to light up an entire 100-seat lecture hall with his underarm odour. After several weeks of gagging, one of our classmates bravely told him the truth. And you know what? He was not only oblivious, he didn't believe her either. But the stench began to dissipate soon after, so he must've got the message.

I was using one of those crystal sticks when I was 17 because it made me feel like a gelfling. Crystals! Even though I think it's just salt. My family said not only did I stink, but that my armpits made the stick stink. Anyway, as a person who can't receive smells but can still transmit them, I don't think I should be fucking around with "learning to appreciate my own scent," because what it would really mean is learning to appreciate a new, danker loneliness.

http://www.thebodyshop-usa.com/deodorant/prod1032017

No aluminum salts, no anti-perspirant. Smells good!

http://www.thebodyshop-usa.com/images/bathpc/products/pd-DeoDry-Cool-Zesty-Stick.jpg

Also if you shave your pits (and cut yourself by accident, which I am an expert at) and use a crystal stick you are literally rubbing salt in your own wounds. No fun.

Obsessive every day showering is kinda weird to me - but then, I'm an obsessive every-other-day showerer, I get a bit itchy if I realise I've gone two days without. Which must be purely psychosomatic; I think a few times a week is just fine for personal hygiene, it's just habit that makes you think that's gross.

Ugh, I figured the article would be about crust punks or people who make a point of not showering. This "hey, I found out that I don't smell that bad, so I don't shower every ten minutes!" crap is not really even article-worthy. Congratulations, people, you've discovered how... everyone lives.

i use tom's lavender deodorant and it smells good but does absolutely nothing

Unscented roll-on all the way. Gentleman's choice.

I never wear deodorant, but I smell fine. I also don't drink shitloads of Mountain Dew, smoke or drink all too often (though after a weekend of bar-hopping I am feeling not-so-fresh).

I needed new deodorant today and bought some offering from Burt's Bees. Will evaluate and report back.

I believe that there are people who benefit from the not-washing-skin thing -- the natural acidity of the surface that develops is actually pretty good for ya and kills the first wave of outside bacteria that land on skin. But I can't tolerate the sweat residue for more than a day without the itches and breakouts, so bring on the triple-milled soap.

Also I somehow went without deoderant/anti-persp for like a year or two and I can see how you might get used to your own smell over time but I'm not sure I want to get used to anyone else's.

iirc how good somebody else's armpits smells is a good test of genetic compatibility

don't think one of my good friends uses deodorant and I think his pits stink, but his girlfriend love sit

~shrug~

Anyone living below the equator has an obligation to shower.

Sweating armpit puddles showing through T-shirts = grossest thing ever. It's inevitable in South Florida, so I've stopped wearing light-colored fabrics.

My bf doesn't wash his face or shower as often as I would find normal, and he has totally clear skin and pretty much never smells, he's like the floral garden of people, but I think HIS skin oil makes my skin break out where it gets on me. Which really just says that I'm chemically broken somehow.

my deo smells like blueberries

showering is awesome! i don't know why people wouldn't want to shower.

Poor hygiene and/or not detecting body odor can be a possible sign of mental illness iirc.

"With Tom's of Maine and various hippie deodorants, I don't see how the aluminum (which is an anti-perspirant issue) and corporate arguments stand up."

In 2006, a controlling 84% stake in Tom's of Maine was purchased by Colgate-Palmolive for US $100M.

apparently tom needed some FUCK YOU HIPPIE! money...

these peoples crotches must smell like dead farm animals.

otm. crotch stench is the greater danger imo. my pits do get sweaty and smelly though. i just use some standard corporate carcinogen deodorant that works well enough with daily use. old spice usually. sometimes people even tell me i smell nice

i have def got into convos with punx about whether you prefer your SO to smell "natural" or to smell "clean"

i dont even want to know what a natural box smells like.

i use mitchum smart solid CLINICAL strength. Sweat machine.

BY MENNEN!!

the last old spice i bought says it's 25% higher performing than before. so thanks to the tireless work of the odor scientists at old spice labs, i now stink only 75% as much as i used to

the ceaseless evolution of deodorant products is truly one of capitalism's greatest gifts

once after using old spice clinical strength i ended up with chemical burns under my arms. Lovely huh? I switched to Toms after that and i smelled of onions with a faint hint of lemons.

if you rubbed raw chickens under there you'd make a great stock throughout the day

i know every body is different and everything, but i just can't believe that if you shower once a day and wash well, that you even need deodorant to not stink. just wash yourself! it's plenty!

of course your level of physical exertion matters too.

Lots of exertion to post on ILX imo

My pits get way stinkier from being in slightly chilly, slightly clammy conditions like, say, when my arms are mostly down all day in a slightly cold office because I'm siting at a desk, typing, than from real exercise.

when im nervous or i drink a lot of coffee (occasionally the two are connected btw), i notice that my smell gets a lil more aggressive.

i read all of the comments appended to that article for some perverse reason. thing that freaked me out the most was ppl saying that they would work out, sweat profusely, and then not shower. that seems gross to me. also i wonder about the proud seldom-bathers' habits after having sex? ugh

all that being said i know a woman who bathes on a disturbingly infrequent basis, but never really smells bad. while someone like me, even when i've eaten the purest diet and showered 2x+/day, i stil cannot get away w/o wearing deodorant esp. in hot summer weather

ok, peace out, bluds

I think the idea of showering every day if you're not breaking a sweat or getting dirty is stupid and wasteful. I also sort of think that lean bikeydude body odor is kind of a turn on....

Yeah. Clean sweat is hot.

Water exists to drink and to wash dirty privates. Privates are a terrible thing to waste.

you know who else didn't bathe after sweating?

communists.

didnt that whole aluminum thing turn out to be BS

As with many things supported only by circumstantial evidence, that no scientist ever claimed as causal in the first place, it's now impossible to prove the demanded negative.

It could be the aluminum in your antiperspirant, sure. It could also be the wax on your shoelaces.

though yes dirty privates are probably one of the top 5 NAGLs of all time

I can't wait to see the NYT article on young crustpunks who rebel by not waxing their shoelaces.

Filthy degenerates.

got the godamn rash again. WTF.

The last time I exp2erimented with the natural musk school of grooming, I was 22 and working at Applebee's. Management called me on that shit right quick. I find Degree works pretty well. Also bathing every day unless I'm depressed. Not showering is my way of letting my loved ones know there's something wrong.

I'm extremely skeptical of people who say they don't wear deodorant b/c they are not doing things that make them sweaty and smelly. It is my experience that those people often get really, really stinky. Not all of them always, but all of them at least sometimes, and many of them frequently.

(I lost my sense of smell from a concussion last February, so feel free to skip the deodorant around me without concern that I'm judging.)

Since losing my sense of smell, I go through astonishing amounts of deodorant. I miss knowing whether I'm funky or not.

well I've been too lazy to change clothes for the past week so I'm pretty stinky. :\

have never been a deodorant user, though i shower every day, sometimes more than once (except sundays, sundays are for filth). don't seem to generate armpit funk, unless i do strenuous work for long periods. confirmed by numerous 3rd parties.

tell you the truth, i think commercial deodorants actually make you stinky. like you smell all rosy for a few hours, but next day you're twice as rank as you would be otherwise. which inclines you to use more deodorant, infinitum. this is likely due to the inclusion of secret conspiracy ingredients made from mouse brains.

that's like my conspiracy about Kleenex and razors

razors made badly to boost kleenex sales?

or a bumpifying agent in kleenex so you cut yourself twice as badly next time?

Im convinced that kleenexes are designed to disintegrate into particles that will cause you to sneeze more and your nose to run more

also that shaving cream contains hair growth agents

lol, hope everything is true

hidden fats in weight watchers stroganoff

i feel like after a certain point, toothpaste makes your breath smell worse, but crest doesn't sell gum afaik so no conspiracy there i don't think

toothpaste definitely makes my breath smell better, no paranoias there. without toothpaste i would be a horror.

too bad they don't sell ass paste

getting rid of bad breath is all about scraping that tongue #gagreflex

yeah i have a terrible gag reflex (nhjic)

I definitely do feel that mints make your breath smells worse after they expire, so you compulsively feel the need to pop another one

like it wouldn't surprise me to find out that there is a little nugget of bad breath bacteria at the center of each one

this is pretty much what i'm saying about toothpaste

like if you brush your teeth but don't eat/drink/pop a mint or gum for a few hours

xxxxpost: i know, feel like such a weirdo brushing my tongue. like, sound of running water, sound of vigorous tooth brushing, VIOLENT GAGGING NOISE. no really, i'm okay in here, and this is something i do for my personal hygiene reasons.

this is quite oddly timed because I ran out of deodorant a month ago and never bought a replacement. i just decided to see how I'd do without it And so far I'm fine. I don't actually sweat much, I shower in the morning, I wear clean clothes, and I don't smoke/drink/eat shit. I've made my wife swear she will tell me if I reek and she would. frankly I only did this because it has gotten to a point where I just despite the smell of all men's deodorants; I used some kind of right guard gel thing for years and they discontinued the only non-stinky one. and I'm too cheap/broke to go around sampling other ones.

similarly, I quit buying shaving cream when I ran out of that and realized using dove soap worked better and was also a better soap for my face than the expensive shit I'd been buying for years.

If you have a nice relaxing bath before bed, do you put on deodorant when you get out or leave it til next morning? (If you normally use deodorant)

lol at asspaste

If you have a nice relaxing bath before bed, do you put on deodorant when you get out or leave it til next morning? (If you normally use deodorant)

People wear deodorant to bed??

I wear it whenever I leave the house (maybe not for a quick trip to the nearest shop, but definitely for work or going out) but the first thing I do when I get back home is wash it off again because I find it really dries the skin out if I leave it on.

(I lost my sense of smell from a concussion last February, so feel free to skip the deodorant around me without concern that I'm judging.)

― SEXY HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN PORTUGAL (Jesse), Friday, November 5, 2010 4:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Holy shit. Have you and Abbbottt bonded over this or anything?

Anyway, I just went and checked my deodorant. Apparently it has something called Silver Ion Technology. That's hella better than aluminum.

Abbott has no sense of smell?

If you have a nice relaxing bath before bed, do you put on deodorant when you get out or leave it til next morning? (If you normally use deodorant)

I have always put on deodorant after a shower, even if it's right before bed. I started doing this in my teens when I noticed a strong pit funk an hour or two after washing off deodorant. It was probably due to puberty, but even in my 30s I noticed sometimes it would still happen. Plus I don't like the feeling of my pits without deodorant.

I say "deodorant," but I mean anti-perspirant. I would never, ever bother with just "deodorant," which is nonsense.

Mary Roach's totally awesome "Packing for Mars" has an entire chapter on astronaut hygiene which basically notes that our body's default comfort zone is somewhere around 5 days without washing, and that 5-7 days of funk more or less gets absorbed by our clothing. She points out that while Ye Olde Renaissance people didn't bathe much, they did wear and change lots of layers, which possibly helped alleviate BO. She (and others ) note that showering or bathing every day is basically a modern affectation.

After 5-7 days, btw, most clothes apparently start to disintegrate and the funk gets more aggressive, even vindictive. The reason they tested all this is because in the early days of space exploration there was obviously not a lot of showering going on (apparently capsules got ripe, though things seem to be slightly better now.

xxp: Yes! Although I believe that she has been unable to smell her whole life, and so may not be able to relate as well to your newly-acquired superpower.

I usually don't put on deodorant after a shower/bath before I hop in bed, but on rare occasions I have to hop out of bed later to put some deodorant on because of wicked fumes.

All you people confident that they don't stink: can we get corroborating evidence? Get your moms, girlfriends, best bros to testify on ILE.

I have scientific evidence

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/29cnd-ear.html

They write that earwax type and armpit odor are correlated, since populations with dry earwax, such as those of East Asia, tend to sweat less and have little or no body odor, whereas the wet earwax populations of Africa and Europe sweat more and so may have greater body odor. Several Asian features, such as small nostrils and the fold of fat above the eyelid, are conjectured to be adaptations to the cold. Less sweating, the Japanese authors suggest, may be another adaptation to the cold climate in which the ancestors of East Asian peoples are thought to have lived.

As I've told other ppl in the wake of the NYT article, there is a subcult of gay men who are into "mansmell," pitstink, etc. I'm not among them, but as I wanna puke when I walk into a gay bar and a fog of cologne hits my nostrils -- this was a lot worse in the '80s and '90s, I think -- that I can at least understand them.

i just bought some duross and langel moroccan cedar deodorant. Yay $24 for a stick of deodorant. Now i shall smell like a closet.

Old Spice: C or D? asking for a friend

Orig or like "arctic blast"?

recently (and happily) learned that there is now a saquon barkley-branded scent available. other nfl figures, as well. oh the society we live in. sure it is one!

idk i thought it was just kinda stock 'man flavored' body wash; my pallette is unrefined. ultimately went with the classic dove bar of soap, so that's a good deodorant scent i guess. smells like freshly washed hands. nice.

I wear OG Old Spice. C!

I just had to buy new deodorant and was flummoxed by the endless variety of Old Spice products. Do I want to smell like Wolfthorn? Bearglove? Krakengard? Lumbersnack?