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might as well not use deodorant either, those bacteria under your arms are naturally occurring! wouldn't want to disrupt anything. gotta love taking advice fro

might as well not use deodorant either, those bacteria under your arms are naturally occurring! wouldn't want to disrupt anything. gotta love taking advice from ancient humans when determining how to be hygienic.

jayd16 7y ago
He's right though. You should try it. Depending on your haircut you can probably go much longer than a day without shampooing. That doesn't stop you from rinsing it, after all.
- jakear 7y ago
  Length is big. I cut my hair on about a 6 month cycle. At the beginning I can go a week or more without shampoo, towards the end I look overly grimy after just a day or two without shampoo.
ravenstine 7y ago
This is actually something I thought about recently, and I've slowly began to experiment with not using deodorant. But I'm way more wary of doing so because BO is way more off-putting than greasy hair. At first, my pits did stink pretty bad. But they did seem to get less so after 3 days. The problem is that I can't tell if my olfactory sense has just adjusted to the stink. Then I recently had a party to go to, and I chickened out and put on deodorant. By the way, I work from home so I wasn't driving any co-workers crazy with my BO. lol I've been using deodorant every other day for the last week and that seems to work just fine.
- grizzles 7y ago
  I live in a hot climate. I've never used deodorant. A/C+I shower and swim a fair amount and that seems to be enough. I personally find the odor of perfumes 1000X more offensive than BO. I once had to leave the gym because of an older woman that was radiating her perfume in ~25M radius. And that shit was on her skin. My eyes were watering at the edge of her halo so I don't know how she could even breathe. If I didn't smell lilac in there I would have thought it was a chem attack.
  - hombre_fatal 7y ago
    > I've never used deodorant. I suppose now you know how people feel around you. It's very awkward to be around people who smell bad. Most people will just avoid the confrontation of pulling you aside and telling you that you reek. I speak for a lot of people when I say that I prefer nauseating lilac over the smells that can swelter and fester in someone's pits.
    - grizzles 7y ago
      Lol. I prefer to be clean than masked. Most workplaces here have shower stalls for people who need them. For example if you biked to work.
- icelancer 7y ago
  Someone tried this at my place of work and smelled horrible for a month straight. I would guess that most people are just not telling their co-workers they smell bad.
- at_a_remove 7y ago
  I did the "no-poo" (terrible marketing) thing some time back and swear by it, even if there is an icky adjustment period. I don't know how well this will work for deodorant. If this is something you want to undertake, I can suggest a couple of things: First, shave off your underarm hair. I have a rather keen sense of smell, to the point where I can find my own scent off-putting by evening. Without long strands of fur to cling to, the bacteria will not do as well. Second, experiment. You could try a left-right method, using one side of your body as control. You might also try putting some T-shirts in a plastic bag and getting someone else (someone you trust and would humor you with this endeavor) to try a whiff test to see what another vantage point has to offer. However, shave away. Helps quite a lot.
jdmichal 7y ago
There's theories out there that bacteria that oxidizes ammonia would have been pretty common. Before treated water and daily soaping. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/magazine/my-no-soap-no-shampoo-bacteria-rich-hygiene-experiment.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/magazine/my-no-soap-no-sh...

jayd16 7y ago

He's right though. You should try it. Depending on your haircut you can probably go much longer than a day without shampooing. That doesn't stop you from rinsing it, after all.

jakear 7y ago
Length is big. I cut my hair on about a 6 month cycle. At the beginning I can go a week or more without shampoo, towards the end I look overly grimy after just a day or two without shampoo.

ravenstine 7y ago

This is actually something I thought about recently, and I've slowly began to experiment with not using deodorant. But I'm way more wary of doing so because BO is way more off-putting than greasy hair. At first, my pits did stink pretty bad. But they did seem to get less so after 3 days. The problem is that I can't tell if my olfactory sense has just adjusted to the stink. Then I recently had a party to go to, and I chickened out and put on deodorant. By the way, I work from home so I wasn't driving any co-workers crazy with my BO. lol I've been using deodorant every other day for the last week and that seems to work just fine.

grizzles 7y ago
I live in a hot climate. I've never used deodorant. A/C+I shower and swim a fair amount and that seems to be enough. I personally find the odor of perfumes 1000X more offensive than BO. I once had to leave the gym because of an older woman that was radiating her perfume in ~25M radius. And that shit was on her skin. My eyes were watering at the edge of her halo so I don't know how she could even breathe. If I didn't smell lilac in there I would have thought it was a chem attack.
- hombre_fatal 7y ago
  > I've never used deodorant. I suppose now you know how people feel around you. It's very awkward to be around people who smell bad. Most people will just avoid the confrontation of pulling you aside and telling you that you reek. I speak for a lot of people when I say that I prefer nauseating lilac over the smells that can swelter and fester in someone's pits.
  - grizzles 7y ago
    Lol. I prefer to be clean than masked. Most workplaces here have shower stalls for people who need them. For example if you biked to work.
icelancer 7y ago
Someone tried this at my place of work and smelled horrible for a month straight. I would guess that most people are just not telling their co-workers they smell bad.
at_a_remove 7y ago
I did the "no-poo" (terrible marketing) thing some time back and swear by it, even if there is an icky adjustment period. I don't know how well this will work for deodorant. If this is something you want to undertake, I can suggest a couple of things: First, shave off your underarm hair. I have a rather keen sense of smell, to the point where I can find my own scent off-putting by evening. Without long strands of fur to cling to, the bacteria will not do as well. Second, experiment. You could try a left-right method, using one side of your body as control. You might also try putting some T-shirts in a plastic bag and getting someone else (someone you trust and would humor you with this endeavor) to try a whiff test to see what another vantage point has to offer. However, shave away. Helps quite a lot.

jdmichal 7y ago

There's theories out there that bacteria that oxidizes ammonia would have been pretty common. Before treated water and daily soaping. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/magazine/my-no-soap-no-shampoo-bacteria-rich-hygiene-experiment.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/magazine/my-no-soap-no-sh...