i haven't worn deodorant in like... a number of weeks.

since that damned bacon has sucked me back in, i tend to think it better for the rest of the kids' sake to try and throw some about the underarms

but if you wanna buy me a stikc, that would rool!!!!
xpost

i sweat like a motherfucker and this is the only thing that stops the drip

+1 natural phermone attractuality

The Fetchboy sweats because he wears long-sleeved shirts year-round in the Deep South. He does smell delightful though.

Anti Perspirants have been failing on me lately. I'm wondering whether using them actually makes you sweat more after a while. I have a friend who swears he doesn't need to use one, and it's not like he stinks or anything.

i always thought that. that they're a weird kind of plaster-y substance that is meant to just seal your underarms with a temporary resin. i always just wanted a citrus-smelling spray to wear, but they all have the efficacy of dabbing fruit tea on your wrists.

i wear deodorant now.

most of the time.

in the summer anyway.

I do not wear deodorant but I can get away with it bcz I work at a natural foods store (and also I'm not a v smelly dude to begin with)

Anti Perspirants have been failing on me lately. I'm wondering whether using them actually makes you sweat more after a while.

This is why I gave up on them. All of a sudden they'd fail and I felt like I was pissing out of my armpits.

you have to switch brands every time you buy a new anti-persperent IMO

haven't used it for years, felt like it was just ruining my shirts and making no difference in sweating/smelling. haven't looked back (and i'm pretty sure i don't smell all that bad).

you fucking goats

I buy some hippy brand deoderant at a stored called The Peace Nook. Antiperspirant is weird imo.
I am kind of sweaty but not very pungent.

At home I let to let my feathers fly as they please; at work, odor matters so I do what I need to do. Also work environment is v hot.

Oh yeah the aluminum staining your shirts is also meganagl

You all realize pit stains are from antiperspirant and not sweat, right?

The emergency deodorant/antiperspirant I keep in my desk has a sticker that reads "Extra responsive in emotional moments" and that always makes me lol. Deod/anti-p advertising and marketing is totally O_o for the most part.

I tossed several T-shirts a few weeks ago for being yellowed beyond repair.

Hahaha does it like, rub your back and offer to get you tea? xp

I use the most hardcore anti-perspirant I can find in the summer because when it's humid out I sweat like a disgustingly sweaty thing, and then when it cools down outside I use hippie deodorant. I change anti-perspirant brands all the time because I buy whatever's unscented and on sale.

xxxp mine says stuff like "TOTAL DEFENCE 5" and "HEAT RESPONSE FORMULA", kind of like custom Japanese sports cars that have random bits of English on them.

I switched from deodorant/anti-perspiration to just deodorant a few months ago, and I seem to actually sweat less now? I mean, I'm still a sweaty motherfucker, but I don't think it's gotten worse.

I generally try to buy old spice.

Given the amount of walking I do as part of my daily commute, plus going to lunch/running errands, plus the sad fact that lots of women's business appropriate clothing is made of polyester, antiperspirant is not negotiable. I've tried deodorant in the summer and by like 2 pm I just stink.

I wonder if I ever stink? I don't think I do, but my sense of smell is pretty poor. They should sell an app that measures your own b.o.

sell an app that measures your own b.o.

Like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ucWBoN4Dcs
IIRC this Insignia shite smelled like rubbing alcohol. Also watch the ad again, I realise that the actor looks like someone who was my unemployment advisor a few years ago. He dressed like a late 80's car salesman as well.

A couple of years ago I tried a new antiperspirant and a week or so later I realised I was sweating a lot and my sweat had a really disgusting chemical stench to it which was getting worse every day and which would return within an hour of showering, and I began to fear that I had developed some terrible endocrine disorder, and then I realised that it had only been happening since I'd been wearing this new antiperspirant, and I stopped wearing it and a few days later I was fine

so imagine my joy last month when my usual brand said "new formula!" on the packaging and I took it home and the same thing happened

it wouldn't be so bad except various other brands give me a rash, so I'm running out of brands I can use

i never used antiperspirant before this summer but it's changed my life. (although it's kind of creepy sometimes to not. sweat.) i never really seem to recall needing it before (is this a side effect of getting older?) but now I feel like I need it for all of my button down shirts for sure, as well as for many of my tshirts.

i never ever wear polyester. i bet antiperspirant companies teamed up with polyester magnates to sell more of both to people. blargh.

crystal deodorant for life btw. except in high summer, when it's secret or whatever terrible least-flowery stuff is on sale.

I go to outrageous lengths to avoid polyester and there are some articles of clothing that are unavailable (or not available on my budget) in any other fabric. It is the pits. LOL pits. GET IT?

Although I'm wearing a poly chiffon shirt today that I bought because I just really love it.

Wasn't everything made of polyester in the 70s? How did people survive? Perhaps this was when and why antiperspirants became popular?

People didn't use deodorant as much in the 70's. Plus the man-made fabrics. The smell was quite appalling. Ugh... The smell of the 70's. Just recalling it makes me feel rather ill.

I have a coworker who wears polyester pants, like the kind my grandmother used to wear when she was a lunch lady, and either doesn't wash the pants very often or doesn't wash herself very often or both. I was 0-8 in the 70s and don't remember it smelling like anything other than crayons and paste and Tang, but if it smells like this coworker, damn.

ew

I know, right? She is super sweet and loves to hug, which is just really a sad state of affairs for everybody.

The trick to wearing polyester is 1) antiperspirant; 2) frequent launderings; and 3) if you really can't wash it (like it is a suit jacket for example), air it out before you stuff it back in your closet. I also spray the pit area with homemade Febreeze, which is roughtly 6 oz of water (filtered and boiled or distilled), 1 oz of vodka (or gin), and lavender oil to your preference.

polyester is for outerwear only imo, only when necessary, raincoats and fleece and stuff

vodka frebreeze!

It works really well and smells great! It's good as air freshener, too. You can use whatever smell you like, but I like lavender. I made one with a combo of grapefruit and orange oil, too.

The difficulty level of avoiding polyester goes up to about 9 if you wear plus sizes. Plus size clothing manufacturers fucking love that shit.

because they are cheapass jerks

day 3 of not wearing anti-perspirant, and honestly, I haven't noticed anything. In fact I swear I'm better! I can re-wear a t-shirt the next day if I want whereas usually I have to peel it off and throw it in the laundry as soon as I get home. I have a back-up deodorant in my bag just in case things go heinously awry, but I havne't felt the need to use it yet and it is HOT at the moment. Another thing I've noticed - I suffer from bad foot and shoe odour and have tried all sorts of things to stop it (shoe spray, odour eaters etc) to no avail. In the last few days it's completely cleared up. Think this is the way to go.

Deodorant for real, anti-perspirant is mostly some bullshit. I have some sort of kiehl's anti-perspirant thingy that I've been using when outdoors a lot, but they must have discontinued it already? idk, I only think about that when I run out because I have so many other nice-smelling things

smell aesthetics

what are some good deodorants?

i've been using Tom's for about a half a decade and no-complaints

I like Nature's Gate "Autumn Breeze"

The best one you will find smell-wise is Herban Cowboy's "Dusk" deodorant. It's amazing, for real.

is the smell gender neutral?

(genuinely curious, not trying to stir shit)

omg "herban cowboy" !!

i really like sprays, feel like i might have to make the transition

everybody's talkin' (about this deodorant)

The name is awful and it's pretty masculine, its kinda sporty but it's also a bit woody/musky too I think. Just smell it next time you go to whole foods; it's so good.

Sounds like a good smell, I will give it a sniff.

btw i would totally use cedarwood atlas + neroli for my spray if i wanted a warm smell, and clary sage + geranium if i wanted a cooler smell

If you want to spend a lot of money on deodorant, this one is really good: http://www.lavanila.com/Healthy-Deodorant_c_16.html

oh man vanilla coconut

IME that works better than Tom's of Maine.

http://www.malinandgoetz.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=128&category_id=13&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2

$18 must be official premium luxury price

Deodorant does absolutely nothing for me. The wrong antiperspirant causes the skin to fall out of my armpits. I wish I could be all "my natural smell is awesome" but my natural smell is most charitably described as "hot moldy jockstrap".

In summation, I heart my antiperspirant an I dread the day they go out of business because I will lose all of my friends ;_;

you'll always have ilx, at least until posts have smell avatars

Interested in these "smell avatars".

The epitome of "be careful what you wish for"

oh i wasn't wishing, trust me
but even bad smells are illuminating in some way

I ran out of antiperspirant and went with the La Vanilla and I'm not emanating too much funk despite being outside and doing a fair bit of walking today. I don't think I'm ready to eliminate antiperspirant from my life, however.

Possible of interest: http://thehairpin.com/2012/07/ask-a-clean-person-pits-revisited

I couldn't justify $18 deodorant so I stopped buying the La Vanilla, but I have been having a lot of luck with Tom's of Maine Long Lasting unscented.

I use whatever it was Stevie recommended last year

The best one you will find smell-wise is Herban Cowboy's "Dusk" deodorant. It's amazing, for real.

― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, August 10, 2012 4:11 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

such a stupid name

I find it hilarious in my increasingly old-man humor way

gave up my one month experiment of not wearing deodorant, didn't find it particularly liberating

went to cvs, found a horrible selection, started looking for old spice lagoon but settled for old spice fiji

just found this review of the deodorant i bought

madamBlus
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worth a little sweat and the scent of Old Spice Lagoon becomes horribly pungent smell, which can only take long showers. It is not enough for 24, and at 5 hours and the price is unreasonably high. If you prefer, this deodorant, then you have to live with whitish spots on clothes.

i think lagoon is what they call it in asia

smell like lagoon

our lagoons actually smell really nasty when it gets warm enough

Yeah, it is not a thing I associate with a good smell

I think of the notoriously noxious "hog lagoons" of North Carolina.

Deodorant that stains clothes is the fucking worst thing, esp stuff that has aluminum in it bcz it deposits into the fabric and makes your shirts have sparkly armpits that only a Radical Faerie would love.

i have never worn deodorant apart from the odd tommy hilfiger in middle school.

I stopped wearing deodorant when I was in my late teens after hearing a girl praise one of my buddies for his musky aroma. That all stopped on one of my first days on the job at Applebee's when the manager had to pull me aside and have a conversation that started "Listen, I've never had to tell anybody this before, but..."

oh no

:(

here's a pretty close representation of what it's like when i don't wear deoderant for a few days

http://stuffpoint.com/horror/image/177416-horror-skull-in-green-smoke.jpg

shit that's a big picture

Guy smell is kind of a turn on for me (unless it smells like a hoagie) and I always forget that some ppl find it disagreeable

True, and still some people smell more pleasantly musky than others who are sweating metallic fear or whatever they ate/drank the night before/that morning.

i don't use deodorant or shampoo and it's awesome not to have to worry about it

how to live imo

there is nothing worse than ppl who smell like old ham and spit

I smell nice

thank you thread for making me regret deciding to go straight from work to meet people on a warm day instead of going home to have approx. 15 showers first

i had some great hippie baking soda deodorant that worked really well...but when it ran out I punked out and bought a $3 mitchum gel thingamabob instead. which is fine, it works but i'm sure all the aluminum is turning my brain into swiss cheese

i haven't worn deodorant for many years, i just don't produce any sort of body odor. i kinda like the musky man smell, but since i don't produce it naturally, lately i've been experimenting with stylized versions of it with cologne

not my musk of choice, but the negative reviews of serge lutens muscs koublai khan are hilarious: http://www.basenotes.net/fragrancereviews/fragrance/26121143&rt=1

my natural scent is garlic and aerosolized stir fry oil

that's ags (a good smell)

i had some great hippie baking soda deodorant that worked really well...but when it ran out I punked out and bought a $3 mitchum gel thingamabob instead. which is fine, it works but i'm sure all the aluminum is turning my brain into swiss cheese

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:16 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg me too, did u make the hippie deodorant yrself?

no it's some kinda hippy commercial brand, but you buy it online, i guess they are too small and are not in stores idk.
arrowroot as well as baking powder, worked p well!

you guys should get dna transplants and get asian dna, we dont have bo iirc

mr veg doesn't have bo at all either, he's part hawaiian

mad jealous imo

i do have BO
on the weekends i dont give a fuck but i cannot be funky in school, my kids will call me out in a hot minute

smh at all u odorless wood nymphs

it is kinda creepy

p sure it means CLONES but keep that on the d/l until shit gets real

that is so patently untrue, and I can cite the chinese computer science students I went to college with

well that's because Chinese computer nerds never change their clothes

That could be part of it

hey hippies deodorant is a pretty normal thing fyi jeez

i used to use a speedstick variant called POWER ZONE -- that was the scent (lol), not the line -- that srsly chix were all like dag you smell good

of course it was discontinued, leaving me the pale shadow that i am today

speedstick is a good old-school man smell

I bought a cheapo arm & hammer stick once - put it on & immediately realized it was dude-scented

smelled like a car salesman all day

ladies smelling like quote-unquote dude scents is sometimes cool

there are better dude scents than car salesman tho

or 'clammy bro' ©carl a.

for sure, like speed stick

aqua di gio is a nice dude scent on a woman - cheapo arm & hammer is not

like, locker room + prom + car salesman

sadface

ladies smelling like quote-unquote dude scents is sometimes cool

― mh, Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

agree
esp when it's well chosen and mixes with one's musk symbiotically

i want someone to give me a rational answer why women's deodorants still smell like baby powder in 2013.

oh god, yes, that is the worst

http://www.musingsofamuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Maybelline-Baby-Lips-Lip-Balm-002.jpg

Pits: baby smell
Lips: baby lips
Otherwise, grown woman. That sounds grotesque!

I think a lot of people have an inferior olfactory sense, is what I'm getting here

ugh yes that baby-powder-fragrance for deodorants is the worst

musk is the worst scent ever

depends on the musk imo

*musks it up*

love musk

Metallic alcohol sweat is waaaaay worse than musk.

I like musk too. It's the unhealthy smell that I find repulsive.

specifically

http://www.royalllymebermuda.com/sites/default/files/styles/uc_product/public/4oz_muske_seamless.jpg

I am told that kiehl's musk is bad and smells like a 70s living room but I'm not throwing my soap out

the way they use musk in women's deodorants and shitty perfumes...so cloying and horrid

I have no doubt there are nice musks

showering with a bar of soap as opposed to a shower gel helped a lot with this ime, also showering more often tbf

Shower gel makes me irrationally angry.

Shower gel is capitalism at its worst.

what else am I going to put on my loofah

so great, just like rubbing a 70s living room all over your body
http://demandware.edgesuite.net/sits_pod18/dw/image/v2/aaen_prd/on/demandware.static/Sites-kiehls_us-Site/Sites-kiehls-master-catalog/default/v1366907920065/images/product/3700194716936_8ozBottle_MuskShowerGel.jpg?sh=320

Shower gel is the epitome of creating a problem where there is no problem convincing people they need to buy something to fix this non-existant problem.

there's absolutely no problem with bar soap, it's just a different approach

There is nothing that shower gel does that bar soap - which is cheaper, has less packaging, lasts longer, and generates less waste - cannot do just as well. I'm pretty sure you can even find soap that smells like a 70s living room.

xp noooo they got to you, mh!

Don't EVEN get me started on liquid hand soap. Ridiculous.

I can't imagine what's not to love about 70s living rooms.

the shower gel i use wont have been rubbed over my three brothers already, tbf

http://image1.masterfile.com/em_w/02/79/52/846-02795208w.jpg

Smells like swingers.

dmac you could each buy your own bar of soap cheaper than you could buy one bottle of shower gel.

(aside: we had a fireplace just like that except green in my 70s living room, and the glass panes would shatter from the heat and my father, a frugal if not particularly aesthetically concerned man, replaced them one by one with pieces of sheet metal.)

tbf i am talking about 15 years ago, it was a theoretical kind of a worry

this thread

REEKS

Back on topic, though, I was passing by a Lush kiosk at Macy's yesterday and bought a small chunk of that patchouli deodorant. My first problem with it is that it's grainy, so I started the day by sandpapering my armpits. My second problem with it is that on me, patchouli smells like BO. Anyway, I don't think this is going to work out.

patchouli? why not go all the way to nag champa, hippie

Secret: I love the smell of patchouli. If I smell it, I will turn around to see who it is.

all through the 19th century and well into the 20th, french ladies and many men only bathed very rarely and instead wore "cologne" to cover up the smell (the word "cologne" still has this connotation in french).. i've always seen deodorant in that context and i wouldn't be surprised if people 100 years from now look back on deodorant in the same ridiculous light

I stopped wearing anti-perspirant for a while and I have some clothes I STILL haven't gotten the smell out of. The day I was on my way to a nice dinner and thought, oh hell, and bought some normal commercial AP at a drugstore on the way there, it was the first day of the rest of my life.

yeah, I don't actually dislike patchouli, but I will not sidestep an opportunity to rib carl

But I am not a woodland fairy, I sweat at the slightest output of energy like walking more than two blocks or bending over for >5 seconds, and it does not smell like nothing, it smells like sweat.

I like nag champa!

(Me too.)

Earthy and woodsy smells are some of my favorite smells. Vetiver, cedar atlas, sandalwood, patchouli, nice smells.

Sandalwood is one of my faves. Men's shaving soap, that's where you can find it mostly.

yep

For a tiny bit I got really into the scents at Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, they use(d?) a lot of vetiver etc but the oils made my skin break out.

There's a nice woodsy candle I had that I really liked but I obviously was allergic to something in it, because as my seasonal allergy meds would wear off the candle would make me sneeze

I know we've moved on but:

the shower gel i use wont have been rubbed over my three brothers already, tbf

this is why we invented washcloths

There was an episode of that wife-swap show once where a black woman and a white woman switched and were equally disgusted by the other family's soap vs washcloth habits.

Although my mother has been giving me towel sets with washcloths in them for years and I've never used a single one of them, so I dunno.

there's a funny Chappelle sketch about the whole washcloth thing

I was raised pro washcloth and so remain pro washcloth and was unaware there was a "white people don't use washcloths" stereotype until a pretty hilarious Twitter exchange about it some months ago (during which the phrase "get in the grout" was used, which I will treasure always).

I used to ask my mom if I could just use the soap like they did on TV commercials and she was like hell no, that's filthy, use a washcloth, how else can you get in the grout.

I have heard washcloths referenced as a "face cloth" to those who are into rubbing/rinsing with soap on the rest of the body but giving the face/ears/neck a good once over

I love the assumption that my brothers hadnt already used the washcloth

do people share their scrubby shower poufs? that seems far less hygenic than sharing a bar of soap tbh

fwiw i scrub with dr bronner and wear essential oils and like musk so hey what up to my crunchy granola crew

Not only have I never shared my scrubby pouf but I periodically disinfect it with either bleach or apple cider vinegar but I'm a little high-energy about "clean" things including my self.

I've dropped my insufferable Dr Bronner factoid before, right? I went to college with his grandson, who is currently president of the company and responsible for introducing all of the hemp products into the line.

badass

you need to get some of your wisdom added to the label, imo

That's pretty cool. xp

dmac I have it upon good authority, that your toothbrush, which you keep in that same bathroom...

protip: clove oil is great for shaving nicks for its antiseptic & anesthetic properties plus it makes you smell like a spice cake

spice cake >>> beef cake

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Dude next to me on the bus last night stank so bad of BO I almost threw up. Deodorant is your fiend, guys. I don't get the hate tbh. I don't like the baby powder ones either but there are regular alternatives out there that aren't all powder fresh.

stank? stunk? Whatever. It was rank.

That said sometimes a little sweaty man smell is a very good thing. This was not.

I couldn't write this while I was at work, but we have had to take people aside on multiple occasions and have frank straightforward talks about their body odor. In every case, it was a matter of a lack of basic hygiene and/or substance abuse.

Can also be indicative of mental health stuff but I know a couple people who are just like Oh, I don't need deodorant when, yeah, they could really use a little.

I don't wear deodorant I just carry a BOSTON STRONG Yankee Candle around with me at all times and I smell great

lol

hahaha

They make chapstick now, you know. Maybe YC deodorant is next. Oh god that would be so gross.

smell like candles all the time

smell like concealed farts all the time

A.D.I.S.L.C.

(.F)

When I was volunteering at the Boys & Girls Club they had a bunch of household supplies in the office to give to kids if they became aware of a need. Deodorant, soap, etc.