I've accidentally bought and received deodorants multiple times and this shit sucks. Why should I care about muh armpit pore health?
sweating is a critical bodily function. trying not to sweat is like trying not to shit. waste is better out than in.
of course, in our dumb society, sweating is seen in professional environments as vulgar, impolite or crude, rather than what it is: your body is trying to cool itself. wet armpits are awesome if you can get a breeze passing through.
and, aside from deodorants, there are things people can do to reduce their stinkiness. diet can help, but a good move is to routinely get a purposeful sweat in. every older culture has a sweat ritual / thermal bathing thing. public works in ancient Rome were dominated by bathhouses. it was full blown part of the civic religion. the soviets built banyas like crazy. the Japanese onsen. Finnish sauna, Swedish batsu, Navajo tache’e’, Lakota nikagapi. it's got to be close to a cultural universal.
the idea is to regularly let the body's biological mechanisms push all those cellular waste products out everywhere they can, but to keep yourself hydrated. the skin is the largest organ, after all, and it has a complex relationship with water and letting things through.
people who don't sweat much smell wild when they do finally sweat. it's not a judgement. maybe people will stay away from such stinkies, but dogs and pigs will think those stinkies are the most magnificent humans because, as smellers, they are connoisseurs of biological smells.
so, sweat hard. sweat often. drink water. live long. hang out with dogs and pigs.
It's okay to be a little sweaty,
It's not okay to be stinky.In a world of stinky people, wouldn't the one clean person be the real stinker?
sweat is an emissions process as much as it is a regulatory process. the human body can handle heat regulation when you've got antiperspirant on because the rest of the body can still sweat to cool itself. but the lymph nodes and other glands in the armpit do excrete some mildly toxic compounds that build up in the body and are not effectively excreted elsewhere except for in the groin. this is why groin and armpit sweat smell so different from body sweat, it's because there's a bunch of other crap in it that is being filtered and excreted. antiperspirant blocks all that in, and that's :sonic-thats-no-good:
I just use antiperspirants bc I love not sweating in my pits for 48 hours at a time.
Also probably gonna get cancer, but I always smell good and no wet pits baby. Microplastic gonna kill me anyways
Don't need either testosterone blockers got rid of foul smell in my pits :comfy:
I switched to deodorant from antiperspirant a few years ago and I barely sweat more from my armpits than I did before. Plus I'm not putting chemicals that clog pores and sweat glands into my body.
The odd thing is how bad I smelled for a few weeks after switching, I had to bring deodorant with me to freshen up during the day it was so bad. That's supposedly common while your body expels all the garbage from your armpits. Oh, and I smell better without any deodorant/antiperspirant than I did before so that's another plus.
It can be, but it's not the only thing that affects it. Also if you shower regularly you can still smell your own BO, and some deodorants are worse than worthless too, I tried one a while ago that I really liked the scent of, but by the end of the day I would reek so bad that I would need to shower a second time to wash it off.
I eat a lot better now too, that might have something to do with it. My partner is the one that regularly comments on how I smell, so my observation was sort of impartial.
Sweat serves an important physiological purpose and it's not hard to avoid being stinky.
Wtf lol, that's some :reddit-logo: shit, people please just use some deodorant or anti perspirant. Just use something.
Holy shit, the amount of people in the comments that say they don't use either, my word this is real 2000s internet forum hours. We fucking stink, literally.
You know it's bad when a person with a username involving smegma is critical of your hygiene, and they're correct.
antiperspirants were making me sweat MORE than not using it, so now I just use regular old spice. :shrug-outta-hecks:
bought some spice, how long do I have to age it before it's old enough to rub in my armpits
until it starts to smell like something vague like "mountain peak" or "timber"
Depending on what chemical is used to paralyze the sweat glands, I think there is some potential for an increase in cancer or something.
Ehhh worst thing I gotta cut off my armpits, no big loss
With the caveat that I generally try to follow the general social sentiment on personal hygiene, I think that smell, hygiene, and personal appearance are some of the more onerous class signifiers. The idea that human beings shouldn't...smell like human beings (?)...and that even otherwise based people will actively discriminate and dehumanize others in their mind because of hygiene is mind boggling to me. It's not a universal thing either, and people in nations that haven't largely accepted the universality of the western nose seem to be fine for being "smelly." There are obvious exceptions in terms of medicine and health, but in general, people are literal animals that evolved to be outdoor cats so to speak.
if they feel wet you're using too much and spreading it too widely outside the pit itself
