Deodorant - S/D

burn baby burn... xpost

http://pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/88663/200.jpg

Lynx smells nice to start with but totally doesn't prevent BO.

D: lynx, obviously. also mitchum, which destroyed loads of my t-shirts before i worked out what was going on.

LYNX doesn't make me question it

Branding falls down once you realise that either way it STINKS LIKE THE DEVIL'S KNOBCHEESE. I feel sick just thinking about it.

Search: a nice non-scented roll-on pls. Most male spray deodorants make my eyes sting and run, which COULD be a good pulling technique as I wouldn't be able to see if you were ugly.

I'd have been surprised if it had been any other way tbh.

I try and get a present of a nice roll on deodorant where possible for birthdays/xmas etc from a member of the family. I think all deodorants smell better in roll on form, currently I have ALLURE Chanel pour homme which my Dad got but didn't like. it does the job ok.

Yeah, I always use roll-on too... It's handier to apply, and doesn't leave a cloud behind, plus it's environment-friendlier. I can't see any good reason for using a spray.

(suddenly i've got careless whisper in my head)

agreed

like calstars I won't knowingly spread metals on my skin and I have had trouble finding a deodorant that works until just last week when I bought some knockoff AXE spray from the dollar store and that shit works CRAZY well. no it is not a refined nor sophisticated scent, but they (it's called Powerstick or something) make like 15 different scents so just find the least offensive one. i think it might be the alcohol in the spray, which I guess is not in such high concentration in sticks/gels.

Anybody who foregoes deodorant/antiperspirant because you don't need it: I encourage you to verify this observation with a third party before proceeding.

i've never regularly worn deodorant in my life.

CA otm.

yea this summer has been a little bit of challenge to forego it completely bc it has been super hot but i think i'd be fine most days the rest of the year

also i do not really mind the smell of b.o.? and in many cases i find it attractive. though tbh i think a b.o. i find attractive correlates w/ people i find attractive

carl, actually there is another way to check. if you have the abcc11 gene that prevents you from stinking, you will most likely have dry earwax

there have been a number of really attractive people i've known in my life who don't wear it and you can definitely smell it but i always found the smell very alluring rather than repulsive on them

same, v slight b.o. is nice

idk if i have that gene but i seriously just don't have a smell. i'm a cat or something. even when i've worn a shirt a few days in a row it doesn't really smell like typical b.o., just slightly animalic and stale.

I'm not saying any of you need deodorant. I'm just saying double check whether you're just used to your own smell because you know who you don't want to be? The person who's all "I never wear deodorant! I don't need it!" who smells like a pile of wet gym towels fermenting in old chicken soup.

Also it's reasonable to keep in mind that as much as you may enjoy the smell of certain people's bo, not everybody may enjoy the smell of yours. If we were all living out on the plains in micro-tribes who use scent to find other members that would be one thing but the odds are good you are sharing a smallish indoor space with someone who may not find your odor enticing.

Just like wearing a shit ton of cologne is rude, so flaunting your bo.

I'm not accusing any of you of doing this! Just encouraging you to be mindful of how you are impacting your environment.

And yes I have personally known multiple "I don't need deodorant! I don't smell!" people who were, in fact, very stinky.

i have an ex who at one point started, er, cultivating his stank. not incidentally, we stopped having sex around the same time.

he also usually wore vetiver oil so the two combined have ruined that for me (prob similarly to patchouli for some ppl)

omg don't get me started on body odor as a political statement...

but yeah I think patchouli smells really nice when it's not covering up the fact that somebody hasn't had a bath in two weeks.

oh i love patchouli

yea i like a mild body scent and i won't say i don't smell altogether but i don't think i'm excessive

i am most mindful about wearing deodorant during the work week

on the weekends i don't really care since i am just around friends and family

shaving yr pits makes up for a lot tbh

I always use women's deodorants. I hate the way almost all men's deodorants have this really strong, (supposedly) masculine odour. Women's deodorants are usually much more neutral, the odour is barely noticeable, which is what I prefer.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:33 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tuomas, i would suggest this:

http://www.talkingmakeup.com/pics/ban/ban.jpg

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:36 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think that one's available in Finland.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:37 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you might be able to get it online?

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:38 AM (6 years ago)

i think that is not true? xp

i've never shaved my pits though

tuomas/k3vin k, dove unscented actually still has a scent, but very light, if you're looking for something milder

That N/A post is all time.

Shaving one's pits will somewhat reduce their odor. Hair tends to retain odors. That fact is the probable evolutionary reason for armpit hair. Because odor is often a means of communication, including but not limited to, sexual attraction. Personally, I prefer to wash my pits and not use deodorant. Some smell is acceptable to me, just not powerful waves of aroma.

just shave em

go on

shave em

I didn't wear any today and it was 90 degrees out and shared a crowded elevator with my boss late in the day
Tomorrow I'll be wearing it

too late

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for life.

there's a forgotten deodorant i wore during a particularly winning stretch of my life.. vague olfactory memories stir up nostalgic emotions

There is also the issue that people with particularly musky BO, while it may not be a strictly BAD smell, it can be very...personal. Like, I don't necessarily want to know the intimate scents of men I'm not sleeping with just because their indifference toward showering or doing laundry leads them to broadcast their musk everywhere.

I thought I didn't need deodorant for a certain period of my life, not least because even gels that were supposed to be non-staining would still leave marks on my clothes (often vintage, often polyester). But one day on my way to an Easter dinner at someone's family home I was embarrassed by my own BO accumulated from just walking and taking the subway and getting to a far-flung part of the city. So I bought some antiperspirant on my way there and never looked back.

I find deodorant pretty essential in NYC summers, but I can only stand the unscented kind.

I mean we have this combination of heat and humidity and gross air and human density and widespread use of public transit here, just hard to justify not using it.

I tend to use stuff from LUSH. One of the solid bars called something like T'eo which is pretty powdery and one that's like a solidified gel that's like coconut white/grey

particularly musky BO

this is just people who don't wash their clothes. fresh bo is forgivable, musky takes a serious amount of neglect and disdain.

Some discussion of deodorant on the U.S. economy thread, thought I'd revive this so as not to go too off-topic there.

So: I don't wear deodorant or antiperspirant. I did from my teens into my early 30s, and at a certain point I had a discussion with a friend of mine who was like, "Why do you wear deodorant? You shower every day." It was an interesting question and made me wonder if I'd just been sold a bill of goods by the body/beauty industry. So as an experiment, I stopped. And never went back.

This is a totally personal thing, some people sweat more than others, some people probably give off more odor than others, so I'm not being prescriptive. But I actually sweat a fair amount, and in the last 20 years I don't think it has ever mattered that I don't wear deodorant. None of the people I've been in relationships in that time have minded — when I ask, I just get "I like your smell," and I promise my wife would not say that if it actually bothered her. I've even mentioned it to some friends at work, like, "Do you ever notice that I don't wear deodorant?" An odd question, granted, but people always seem genuinely surprised because no, they've never noticed.

I don't think there's anything wrong with deodorants or antiperspirants, but in my years of using them I sometimes would get irritated skin from them. So I'm happy not to mess with it. Just curious if there are other abstainers out there. (Caveat, I do take showers every day, and I often time my bathing to when I'm going to go mingle with people, so I try to maximize my cleanliness for public consumption.)

Pit putty at the moment. I am still on one of the tester size packages. Trying to think what word for package type is, metal screw lid thingy.
Had been using a Better By Nature roll on but couldn't find a refill after finding the container unscrewed so tried this stuff. Found it in the local loose goods store place called The Filling Station. Green place that tries to reuse packaging for the most part but does sell some things in their own containers as well as having a lot of cleaned out plastic bottles etc available.
Think after this I will try another flavour or scent of the same stuff. Since there are 3 or 4 varieties.

company is called Faith In Nature.
Looks like Pit Putty call at least the full size units tubs but thy come in these little metal pot things with screw on lids that are like what you get snuff or something in, maybe popular in cosmetics. small circular things where teh screw on lid takes up about half the height.
https://pitputty.eu/collections/all

Potassium alum - it's the bomb. Seems to be more or less innocuous. A stick costing £4 lasts me around six months. Just use it on freshly clean and wet pits for effectiveness.

Why do they call u noel emits tho

Why is it so hard to find an unscented stick? Most stores seem to carry only one brand; my Target never has any.

i use Arm and Hammer essentials unscented. it works well on me and I've really noticed a positive difference with skin irritation.

i stopped using a long time ago but i tried the crystal but that can clog your pores too so just use a good cleaning when you take a shower!

Right Guard Sport Powder Dry 4 life

I'm among the majority of adult humans for whom soap + water works just fine to keep armpit odors down to acceptable levels for acceptable periods of time between applications.

I don't have a washing machine or lots of 'cllset' space so I prefer it if my clothes can go a bit longer between washes. Also depends on what kind of activities you do, the "majority" of humans are going to be a bit stinky if they do physical work.

I wish I could stop using deodorant/antiperspirant, but as someone whose job it is to wave my arms around in front of a bunch of eagle-eyed middle-schoolers all day, I feel like I need the antiperspirant at the very least.

antiperspirant gives me rashes until I find the kind without aluminum, and 90% of the time i'm buying it, I'm in a convenience store and left to pick from waht they have.

still use it but one time the rash got so bad that I was doing a production of Assassins (rehearsal) and one of my castmates said "YO, Rob, u ok? what's going on in your pits there?"

When I stopped using anything, my shirts became stubbornly uncleanable; I use the crystal antiperspirant.

I use diet antiperspirant

my motto is let the sweat go free wherever thee may be. But I don't go on public transport and am rarely in confined indoor spaces and mainly I just don't care anymore.

My substitute deodorant arrived, and I like it well enough— Weleda Sage 12hr. Pretty inexpensive, too, and works reasonably well. No alum or any crap!