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

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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.

How would you just “hear of” something like that? It’s not a common topic of conversation

Where are these men who are secretly using washcloths?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Synthetic fabrics are the absolute worst.

Learned this the hard way

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As I approach menopause I don’t sweat under my arms anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Or is it just an ingrained habit? My brother in his early 30s has stopped as an experiment. He trims/shaves his armpits, which I guess is a pretty common thing now, and should help. He is convinced that most guys do not actually smell if they shower. I, however, suspect that most guys working an office job would absolutely reek by the end of the day, armpit hair or no armpit hair.

No, no it's not among men. If I saw or heard of a man doing that who wasn't a bodybuilder, I'd think him gay.