Do you think most men could get away with not wearing deodorant if they wanted to?

[Anonymous]

When I forget deodorant I only start stinking once I realize it 😅 and start sweating because I’m embarrassed

[Anonymous]

In the US? No.

[Anonymous]

Most people of European descent need deodorant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if anyone washes VERY well with anti-microbial soap or wash to eliminate 99% of bacteria in the shower, wears very clean breathable clothes, most would go 12-24 hours without smelling strongly unless they had stress/emotional sweat or worked out very heavily and then let it marinate.

The problem is many people, especially men, don't know how to properly clean themselves. Many people don't use proper soap, a washcloth or something abrasive to scrub off old deodorant and dead skin that bacteria like, and don't wash for long enough to get rid of the bacteria. Most people are rubbing some soap under their pits or swishing a dirty old loofah under their for a few seconds and calling it a day.

Yeah, I use a 40 grit sandpaper to scrub off the old deodorant. WTH kind of deodorant are you using that it takes an abrasive, or even a washcloth to remove it. Soap and water work just fine for me. It only takes seconds. I think most people know how to properly clean themselves.

Really, they don’t. The mix of sweat, oils, dead skin, and whatever else that accumulates on skin doesn’t just rinse away. Even if you do a good job soaping up the skin and smell nice right after a shower, bacteria go right back to work on that dead skin and oil left behind. If you rub your skin with a towel after a shower and see dead skin you really didn’t get that clean.

[Anonymous]

Nope. Few would get away with that.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if anyone washes VERY well with anti-microbial soap or wash to eliminate 99% of bacteria in the shower, wears very clean breathable clothes, most would go 12-24 hours without smelling strongly unless they had stress/emotional sweat or worked out very heavily and then let it marinate.

The problem is many people, especially men, don't know how to properly clean themselves. Many people don't use proper soap, a washcloth or something abrasive to scrub off old deodorant and dead skin that bacteria like, and don't wash for long enough to get rid of the bacteria. Most people are rubbing some soap under their pits or swishing a dirty old loofah under their for a few seconds and calling it a day.

Yeah, I use a 40 grit sandpaper to scrub off the old deodorant. WTH kind of deodorant are you using that it takes an abrasive, or even a washcloth to remove it. Soap and water work just fine for me. It only takes seconds. I think most people know how to properly clean themselves.

Lmao you’re proving my point. I bet you’d be real funky at the end of the day if you didn’t use deodorant because you don’t clean properly.

I almost never wear deodorant because my skin doesn’t like it and I only ever get odor under my pits if I get very very upset. But I spend adequate time and attention cleaning, and yes, it does require something to scrub off the remaining film of deodorant. So I’m fine without it for 24-36 hours until I shower again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's highly individual, OP, and despite my personal experience, not gender or ethnicity related.

My husband has never worn deodorant because he only stinks when he works out intensely. I'm very jealous, because I need deodorant every day unless I do absolutely nothing!

My son has inherited my husband's biochemical make-up, my daughter is like me.

This. My son can go without. He just doesn’t smell and this includes after working out or playing on a high school sports team. My husband is not like that. My younger kid needed deodorant before the age of 10 and i certainly need it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if anyone washes VERY well with anti-microbial soap or wash to eliminate 99% of bacteria in the shower, wears very clean breathable clothes, most would go 12-24 hours without smelling strongly unless they had stress/emotional sweat or worked out very heavily and then let it marinate.

The problem is many people, especially men, don't know how to properly clean themselves. Many people don't use proper soap, a washcloth or something abrasive to scrub off old deodorant and dead skin that bacteria like, and don't wash for long enough to get rid of the bacteria. Most people are rubbing some soap under their pits or swishing a dirty old loofah under their for a few seconds and calling it a day.

Yeah, I use a 40 grit sandpaper to scrub off the old deodorant. WTH kind of deodorant are you using that it takes an abrasive, or even a washcloth to remove it. Soap and water work just fine for me. It only takes seconds. I think most people know how to properly clean themselves.

Lmao you’re proving my point. I bet you’d be real funky at the end of the day if you didn’t use deodorant because you don’t clean properly.

I almost never wear deodorant because my skin doesn’t like it and I only ever get odor under my pits if I get very very upset. But I spend adequate time and attention cleaning, and yes, it does require something to scrub off the remaining film of deodorant. So I’m fine without it for 24-36 hours until I shower again.

I have literally never heard of a man using a washcloth anywhere on his body in the shower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I forget deodorant I only start stinking once I realize it 😅 and start sweating because I’m embarrassed

It's doubly bad because stress sweat smells worse than regular sweat.

If you wash well with soap and a clean washcloth morning and night (even if you don't shower still wash and scrub) many people won't smell bad throughout the day.

Often tweens/teens get out of the shower and still haven't washed well enough. They sometimes then add deodorant on top of that and it's gross. Just ask any middle school teacher.

[Anonymous]

My DH doesn’t sweat under his arms at all so doesn’t wear deodorant, even with intense physical activity in the summer, no sweat glands in the pits, but he’s a head and foot sweater. His feet reek, at the end of the day. And the rivulets run down the sides of his face during outdoor exercise.

My step dad also didn’t wear underarm deodorant, He was a nose and upper lip sweater.

People who don’t sweat under their arms or in the groin area tend to have less stinky sweat. But they still sweat, and the smell is different or near odorless, back sweat, nose and head sweat don’t smell the same way that underarm sweat does, groin, boob, sweat not a good smell (errogeanous) zones). Bathing and deodorant help, not it’s really not a bathing thing, they are literally different types of sweat glands.

I have a friend who has no sweat glands at all, she has beautiful skin, and never smells, but she’s trapped inside on hot summer days.

Eh it’s much easier to buy some spray deodorant and spray the parts no one really sees. It would be much worse to have a pool of sweat, even if not at stinky, under your nose or rolling off of your head.

[Anonymous]

Apocrine vs Eccrine it’s all in the genes.

[Anonymous]

It depends on the guy. And if he wears cotton or synthetic fabrics!

My husband just doesn’t have BO and can easily skip deodorant —he does shower daily though. My teen son cannot skip deodorant without me noticing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most men, no. I think DH probably could. He's weirdly odorless and doesn't really sweat.

So is true that once you go cyborg, you aren’t going back?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DH doesn’t sweat under his arms at all so doesn’t wear deodorant, even with intense physical activity in the summer, no sweat glands in the pits, but he’s a head and foot sweater. His feet reek, at the end of the day. And the rivulets run down the sides of his face during outdoor exercise.

My step dad also didn’t wear underarm deodorant, He was a nose and upper lip sweater.

People who don’t sweat under their arms or in the groin area tend to have less stinky sweat. But they still sweat, and the smell is different or near odorless, back sweat, nose and head sweat don’t smell the same way that underarm sweat does, groin, boob, sweat not a good smell (errogeanous) zones). Bathing and deodorant help, not it’s really not a bathing thing, they are literally different types of sweat glands.

I have a friend who has no sweat glands at all, she has beautiful skin, and never smells, but she’s trapped inside on hot summer days.

Eh it’s much easier to buy some spray deodorant and spray the parts no one really sees. It would be much worse to have a pool of sweat, even if not at stinky, under your nose or rolling off of your head.

When you are on a long airline flight, do you find that after talking to the person next to you for about 15 minutes, they mysteriously just get up move to another seat?