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Click-baity title? Not using soap isn't the same as "not washing" (i.e. not showering) is it?
by bmer 7y ago
Click-baity title? Not using soap isn't the same as "not washing" (i.e. not showering) is it?
- ctack 7y agoThe first line of the article: "David Whitlock has not showered or bathed for 15 years, yet he does not have body odour."
- devoply 7y agoSounds like genetics. People from poorer countries where people don't bathe as often or have deodorant will tell you people can smell quite a bit without soap and deodorant.
- ctack 7y agoCould be but again, from the article: "Whitlock had hoped that he would naturally acquire this type of bacteria simply by stopping washing. He didn’t – and grew quite pongy. So, he harvested bacteria from the soil at a local farm and fed them with ammonia and minerals. When they turned the ammonia into nitrate, he knew he had what he wanted and started narrowing them down to a single strain that seemed happiest on human skin. After he applied the bacteria he had cultured – the stuff the horses were apparently after – he stopped smelling."