POII: Deodorants

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Mitchum, Right Guard. (It only occurs to me now that Right Guard is named after a football position)

I like a lot of Tom's of Maine products but ^^^that shit does nottouch my funk.

I don't think there exists a non-carcinogenic approach to eliminating or masking body odor.

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you KNOW you're a mitchum man if you like a crowd when you're lighting the grill

Irish Spring has TWO DEODORANTS.

Ball
Aerosol

Swedish chemist shop joke to thread.

I usually wear that Tom's of Maine "unscented" (more like lemon) but haven't for the last four days due to CIRCUMSTANCES. Degree is also a cool deodorant cause of the TV commercials with the heat-activated dial

I can't find pics, but Secret has "a decade of strong women" themed deodorants, each w/a different smell and lady on the label. '50s-2000s. I have the '80s "power" scented deodorant, which according to the man smells like "citrus and baby powder, but mostly deodorant." It has a pic of a totally non-'80s looking blonde in a suit w/a big bow neckerchief.

I think it's hilarious, but they piss me off because they say "80's Power" or "70's Spirit," when the apostrophe is supposed to go before the number, not before the s. As I put it on today, I thought: What power does the number 80 yield, and why am I spreading it on my armpit?

whatever you do, don't get smart and think "ah, baking soda let's try that" and throw some on, then later rub on some secret unless you want extremely fizzy armpits. Or, go ahead, try it for a fun wake-up experience.

& take pictures

what a bizarre marketing ploy!

I've been working off the same stick of Degree for years now, I don't usually wear the stuff. I have nobody I want to impress with a fresh scent.

i wear deodorant as little as possible (even though i'm totally a mitchum man) except for days like today when it's 92 or whatever

I do like the Arm & Hammer baking powder deodorant bcz it has 19% active antiperspirant ingredient & I sweat like an unholy sewage temple.

I have congenital anosmia (no sense of smell), so I'm hella overconscious about deodorant, wearing shirts only once, febreeze, etc., because I have no way to know if them green stink lines are curling outta me.

i have never heard of this! that's kinda fascinating. how did you figure out you couldn't smell? at what age?

way to not smell, no-smell

No brand loyalty here, let's just say Perfume-Free Deodorant #1 and Perfume-Free Deodorant #2.

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Hahaha, all my friends in HS called me "the no-smell."

I remember learning about 5 senses on tv & in preschool/kindergarten. I was really delayed in a my physical development (had to go to hella afterschool programs), so I thought I was this way about smell, too, ie I'd learn how to do it someday, even though all the other kids had figured out how.

My parents never believed me about it until they went into town one day for a few hours and my mom had left cookies in the oven the whole time. I had just been alone in my bedroom (as per) & when they got home, they yelled about me for not turning them off. "Couldn't you SMELL that?" Gah, how many times do I have to tell you? And they realized I couldn't have put up a front about that.

srsly i don't usually trust things that aren't going to give me alzheimers but the crystal spray deodorant really works pretty well for me and i used to stink shit wearing double layers of secret on hot days

Can you guys smell your own sweat, or do you need others to do that? Cuz all the chicks in junior high/HS gym classes had the weird ritual of intimate pit smelling after class in the locker room. "No, you're good." "Eww, you stink!"

i was JUST thinking about starting a deodorant thread.

mostly because i don't wear deodorant? i have a pretty good musk (it is 'sweet' sweat, not acidic gross sweat), and i stopped investing in the Tom's of Main BS because it hardly does anything and costs a lot. i could only wear that stuff, tho, because my skin is really sensitive to the chemicals they put in other deodorants. most of my friends are the same way-- pleasantly smelly.

i bet you all smell like funyuns

Asides from the aluminum con-tro-ver-sy, why the fear of deodorants? (Hopefully this does not turn out like the thread where I said I thought water flouridization was good & healthy.)

Those crystal sticks did not anti-perspire and cut-cut-ouch-pain into tiny nicks from pit shaving. I vote No on proposition That.

They also smash quite easily, learnt this last weekend.

wait, I think I'm talking about "crystal sticks". This thing wasn't a stick, it was more like a little pyramid thingy.

Shards all over the bathroom.

I'm also very curious about this apparent aversion to deodorant! Strange.

Those crystal things suck.

crystal sticks are gross and sticky (lol) but the crystal spray rly works. for me at least

Is it a salt spray?

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yeah. it doesn't anti-perspire but that turned out to be not such a big deal, although i'm sure it is very possible my friends and coworkers are secretly disgusted by my sweaty pits i don't think it's so noticeable. if it wasn't a very effective deodorant though i would totes risk breast cancer or alzheimer's or whatever i'm supposed to be ascared of no problem (xpost)

I use this:
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cucumber green tea extract roll on bullshit. I like it because it doesn't smell like man. I hate man smell deodorants like lynx or whatever.

I sweat everywheres...if I wear a lighter shirt in the summer, it's a huge triangle all over my lower back, and most embarrassing, two little underboob stains, even when I wear a bra (and woe to me when I don't).

My mom wants to buy some RX strength deodorant that CLOGS yr underarm pores. That is a bit Too Far for me, but Jesus, I need at least one part of my body to not leak everywhere. At least I am not Christ in Gethsemane or I'd need blood transfusions every other day.

My dad bought Axe body spray bcz he seriously, truly, fell for the "instant three-way" message. This a man who looks like a 300-lb. Saddam.

you are an interesting character

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Antiperspirant makes my pits itch. The sweat needs to come out! The Tom's works fine for me. Diet has a lot to do with stench, I think. My husband sweats buckets playing tennis and it's completely odorless, even hours later. Bizarre.

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1. none
2. stick

yeah part of it is diet but part of it is just what kind of bacteria your body likes to harbour

i wear this unscented dove 'invisbible' (ya right) stick antiperspirant but not every day b/c it seems to stick around and also b/c in the summer i seem to have two showers a days so am pretty unsmelly despite humidity/heat and exercise. sometimes i wear the crystal stick stuff. it doesn't matter, i sweat regardless

abbott is a great and interesting character/person!

I used to be all about Dove unscented stuff, but apparently in Aus it's been "discontinued".

I need antiperspirant. Just normal deodorant actually just makes things worse for me. I drink a lot and eat a lot of meat, I smell like a dead and drunk piece of game dunked in cologne by about five in the afternoon if i just put deodorant on.

unscented is the way to go if pos - even though 'green tea & cucumber' sounds good to me, it prob does not smell how i wish it wld smell, which is mostly of nothing and slightly of green tea and cucumber.

i like smelling as much like one thing as possible
i have talked abt the 'unscented' smell on another thread re: deodorants/sweating/other - such a great-weird lab concept

degree

1. None.
2. Tom of Finland's apricot or unscented.

I only use Secret because it does not have the two aspects of male-geared deodorant that I dislike: 1. disgusting scents, 2. not actually staying on through the day

also it is a better anti-perspirant

TOM OF FINLANDS??? Does it make you have a giant package and a disproportionately large upper body? Does it make you smell even MORE MANLY?

Is there actually a dif. in how male/female marketed deodorants work?

tuomas' of finlands - ice cream sundae scented

i am loyal to Degree because they used to eschew gender marketing, but in the last year or two they have given up on this. Now i just get whitchever stick of Degree MEN smells the least sick.

Old Spice. Arbitrarily.

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Secret has this clear gel with a scent called "Vanilla Sparkle". Alas, it did not actually sparkle, but did smell of baking cookies which I thought was a pretty fine way to smell.

Abbott, I don't know about other people, but if I can smell my own sweat without burrowing maniacally in a pit, I know it's really bad and has been bad for hours before it got to my nose.

I hope you literally burrow maniacally in a pit, like a shrew or a puppy digging to China.

and post it on youtube

Degree

Possibly the only product I have consistently used since high school. Deodorant/antiperspirant is apparently the only thing I have real brand loyalty to.

Mitchum "Fresh Wave"

Abbott, I don't know about other people, but if I can smell my own sweat without burrowing maniacally in a pit, I know it's really bad and has been bad for hours before it got to my nose.

^^^^This.

If you only see a doctor when something breaks, you're a mitchum man

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it actually smells like gin

If you're not sure you own an iron, you're a mitchum man

If you like an audience when you light the grill, you're a mitchum man

If you read the sports section first, you're a mitchum man

If your favorite vegetable is a corn dog, you're a mitchum man

(guys, i know it's like the most retarded ad campaign ever, but every time i go to walgreen's i LOL at these. i've even collected the stickers and have them up in unobtrusive places in my house)

Corn dog is nature's perfect food, but a Mitchum Man I am not.

My drummer sometimes applies deodorant 2 or 3 times at practice, but he has no compunctions about rocket-blasting gigafarts across the room.

Me, I haven't worn deodorant or anti-perspirant for about 20 years. I don't smell too bad, so nobody notices, I don't b'leev. It was worse in grad school when I also didn't bathe but once a week. Sometimes by the end of the week I would get kinda rank.

But see, I only hear other people complain about the stankitude of others behind their backs, and never once point out, "Dear sir, you are a bit ripe."

I asked a few times if I was smelly, and I think I got honest feedback. I mean, sometimes it was "yes". Other times it was, "no, it's impressive that you don't smell MORE".

i finally told my stepbrother that he stunk. not an easy conversation

Abbott, if you can't smell at all, how do you know if bad smells are just a small annoyance or worse than thumbscrews? How can you locate them on the scale of physical displeasures?

I have no idea! I just try to avoid making them for that very reason.

If I were you, I'd be totally devastated and foreverafter paranoid if someone told me I stank.

You probably smell just fine, tho.

I mean, don't take it as a hint or anything.

It's happened one or two times, but mainly after I had to stay at someone's house & he didn't have soap in his shower. Like, I imagine I'd dtink; I felt really grody .

My boss bought me some Avon perfume as an Xmas gift one year...I had no idea how to react. But I didn't wear it bcz I had no idea how I'd smell and I get the impression Avon smells of the aged.

From what my mom says about it. "Old people all smell like Avon soap on a rope."

That reminds me of a crazy German dude I lived with who never touched soap, let alone deodorant. He just rinsed off. He didn't emit any odor I could detect.

Abbott, do you have any idea you lack of smell affects your lack of taste? (i know quantification might be difficult)

A lot of people don't even believe I HAVE a sense of taste, stupid dicks. (Not referring to you.) The mouth has over 4 million taste buds. They've got to be there for something. I think since I never had a sense of smell, I never...incorporated it?...into my tasting abilities. I am a very good cook, and I did very well at a recent blindfolded beer-tasting test, guessing 14 out of 15 correct. So there's no way to know, comparitively, but all signs ppoint to no, it does not affect it.

I am a very good cook, and I did very well at a recent blindfolded beer-tasting test, guessing 14 out of 15 correct.

sweeeet.

I have to say, I wondered about Abbott's tasting ability too. I was worried for a minute. Imagine not being able to taste? That would be so horrible!

Yeah, I think I'd just stick to eating discarded baseball mitts if that were the case.

it makes sense that you'd have a good sense of taste, actually. you always hear the old saw about people losing one sense and the rest becoming heightened. could be true in this case?

I'm like Daredevil.

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