" I shower when I notice I start to smell. " 1) We adapt quickly to odours around us, you will always smell a whole lot worse to other people than you do to yo

" I shower when I notice I start to smell. " 1) We adapt quickly to odours around us, you will always smell a whole lot worse to other people than you do to yourself. So maybe a ritual is better than a faulty detector. 2) The 'natural skin' thing is partly a myth. While a lot of products are snake oil, many are not. Women past a certain age (I suppose men as well) generally do not get 'amazing skin' without some kind of regime. Water, moisturizer and UV blockers are the base, but there is rationality to it all.