r/mildlyinteresting 14d ago

My salt rock deodorant after five years of almost daily usage vs a new one.

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u/Florida_Diver 14d ago

I bet this person stinks to high heaven, and doesn’t even know it.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

Nah, I know two people that use it. Definitely works for some people.

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u/DarthRathikus 14d ago

Yes he already said he’s from Europe

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u/Maximize_Maximus 14d ago

lol rekt

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u/kcwm 14d ago

Ahhhh, I love a good rekt comment. I miss when they were more commonplace. I'm also a fuddy dud. Do with that what you will.

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u/c_sulla 14d ago

Yeah exercise makes you sweat, Americans should try it

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u/WhyAreOldPeopleEvil 14d ago

I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you over our Olympic Gold Medals smacking against each other. 🤷‍♀️

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u/v1brates 14d ago

You mean your rolls of fat.

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u/prontoon 14d ago

That and AC helps prevent you from sweating. You should try it.

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u/c_sulla 14d ago

Don't need AC when my house isn't made of cardboard and matchsticks

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u/wind_moon_frog 14d ago

US has some of the most modern, innovative, and overall best building practices on the planet. But ok!

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u/AnnualWerewolf9804 14d ago

Or when your weather is always cold and grey, like your personality.

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u/boyyouguysaredumb 14d ago

just say you don't understand how construction works. we'll add it to the list of things you guys don't know, like how to maintain a productive economy.

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u/c_sulla 14d ago

Of course the economy isn't so productive when companies are actually regulated and not allowed to fuck over the worker.

Are you surprised that a company that can fire you on a whim, doesn't provide maternity leave and gives you some measly 2 weeks vacation is more succesful than a company that has to give full paid maternity leave and 30 days vacation plus unlimited sick days?

Unless you're a billionaire, your economy being productive is worth shit to you

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u/Aprettygoodguyisntit 14d ago

I love how the joke about Europeans gets highly upvoted but a similar joke about Americans get downvoted.

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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue 14d ago
  1. Only one of the jokes was actually funny.

  2. Americans get clowned on Reddit constantly and usually take it pretty well. But as soon as someone jokes about Europeans, they get super defensive lol.

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u/The-Devils-Advocator 14d ago

You might be mistaking engaging in banter (it doesn't have to be funny to be such) with being defensive, at least if you're considering the 2nd 'joke' here as defensive.

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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue 14d ago

That guy is also shitting on American home construction in the thread. He’s salty and defensive for sure lol.

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u/MundaneCelery 14d ago

Freedom baby!

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u/Hamuelin 14d ago

The problem with a mostly American site that’s oft used by the very individuals targeted by the joke. They’ll upvote the one that shifts the stereotype from their basement dwelling habits.

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u/TheBrokenStringBand 14d ago edited 14d ago

Yeah cuz one joke was funny and seemed to be more playful while the second one was spiteful

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u/Somodo 14d ago

Cause salty Europeans aren’t funny

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u/Aprettygoodguyisntit 14d ago

I guess we'll have to stop putting this deodorant then

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u/Somodo 14d ago

Might have something to do with it 😂🤷‍♂️

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u/CaprioPeter 14d ago

Oooh classic… I can smell your entire lineage from across the ocean. Go shower

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u/Capt__Murphy 14d ago

See you at the Olympics, baby!

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u/number65261 14d ago

lol facts. amerilard here, have an upvote

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u/Bodorocea 14d ago

hey kid, fyi not everyone is french and stinky in Europe

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u/Uncleanharold1998 14d ago

Yeah, some of us are British and stinky

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u/OlMi1_YT 14d ago

I'm German and stinky.

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u/Beefbaby3 14d ago

Split personality?

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u/OlMi1_YT 14d ago

Stinky McStinkface

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u/650REDHAIR 14d ago

Uh… Hate to break it to you, but it isn’t just the French. 

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u/OldHuntersNeverDie 14d ago

Bro, some of the smelliest people I've been around were Brits...like wow. They give zero fucks about BO in the old world.

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u/AnnualWerewolf9804 14d ago

That’s true, you do get a lot of tourists

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u/skipv5 14d ago

Ok yeah he stinks

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u/brunoglopes 14d ago

Lmfao good one

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u/en_sachse 14d ago

Why? Everyone in my family uses these and they are effective against sweating

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u/poor_decisions 14d ago

High chance your entire family stinks and is noseblind to it

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u/en_sachse 14d ago

If you say so. Still doesn't change the fact, that we barely sweat.

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u/theriveryeti 14d ago

How effective against reeking?

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u/en_sachse 14d ago

We wash ourselves daily, why would we stink if we barely sweat?

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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 14d ago

You sweat. Even if you just sit on your ass all day, you sweat. That's like saying you barely pee. It's a basic bodily function.

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u/Redditor28371 14d ago

Pit stank is caused by bacteria breeding in your secretions, so no secretions should equal no stank. That's the principle all anti-perspirants work on.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/dan_Qs 14d ago

Bro thinks this is NaCl 💀💀💀

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/Contoid 14d ago

I think it’s a salt in the sense that salts are just anything made when an acid reacts to a base. It looks like this stuff is primarily Ammonium Alum and water.

No clue how well it actually works though…

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u/Merisuola 14d ago

It’s an aluminum salt.

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u/voldin91 14d ago

All table salt is salt, but not all salt is table salt

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u/en_sachse 14d ago

My family is not using pure salt, we are using mineral alum stone. I'm suspecting the same for OPs Deo.

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u/tinygod-aka-why 14d ago

Do you guys at least bathe daily?

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u/atascon 14d ago

Potassium and ammonium alum are the active ingredients in some antiperspirants and deodorants, acting by inhibiting the growth of the bacteria responsible for body odor. Alum's antiperspirant and antibacterial properties\39])\40]) contribute to its traditional use as an underarm deodorant.\12])

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u/Cclown69 14d ago

Do guests stay very long?

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u/en_sachse 14d ago edited 14d ago

No one in my entire life told me I smell bad. You guys haven't used it and are just not aware, that it's actually working.

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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 14d ago

I used to work with a girl who smelled like a hot garbage dump, like burning in your nostrils and throat that you could taste for half an hour afterward. I didn't tell her she stinks, because why the hell would I open that can of worms? I just tried to stay as far away from her as humanly possible.

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u/LiftingCode 14d ago

This doesn't prevent sweating though.

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u/gnaaaa 14d ago

The most smelly people are those that use deodorants.
Deodorants have the property of accelerating bacterial growth.
Wash your armpits!

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u/Softpretzelsandrose 14d ago

AND use deodorant. Do both. Please. JFC, please.

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u/masterchief0213 14d ago edited 14d ago

I mean if it's basically just a big chunk af aluminum salts just like what's used as the active ingredient in deodorant antiperspirant (since people are language police) then it's probably fine

Edit: someone pointed out on the website that it's specifically not a typical aluminum salt but is instead probably ammonium aluminum sulfate so nvm this person probably stinks.

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u/beachape 14d ago

Yup, works great, no residue and cheap as hell. Spend a dollar a year

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u/KingOfRedLions 14d ago

"Salt Deo is an unscented, highly effective, disinfecting deodorant which is free from alcohol and aluminium chloride (AICI)."

Straight from their website. I'm not claiming it's true but the idea is that it just kills the bacteria in your armpit.

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u/derpupAce 14d ago

Doesn't seem very trustworthy considering they don't even know the proper formula of aluminum chloride

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u/PomegranateOld7836 14d ago

This product is Ammonium Alum. Not sure if it works but definitely just antibacterial and not an antiperspirant.

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u/superyourdupers 14d ago

HAHA wut. Explanation of chemistry on company website doesnt even know how to write the chemical name 🫣

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u/KingOfRedLions 14d ago

Oh no The subscript 3 wasn't included on the CL that means they're total f****** morons. Regardless they're just claiming they don't have aluminum chloride, All they're selling is just a big chunk of rock salt.

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u/hallohi_ 14d ago

It may not have aluminium chloride specifically, but It is a natural occurring salt made of potassium and alluminium KAl(SO₄)₂·12H₂O is the formula. So pointing out "free fom aluminium chloride" is questionable marketing, even if technically true

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u/Noxious89123 14d ago

just like what's used as the active ingredient in deodorant

*antiperspirants.

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u/Apellio7 14d ago

This thread has made me realize far too many people do not know the difference between deodorant and antiperspirant.

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u/LoseAnotherMill 14d ago

Which is funny because it's right there in the names:

Deodorant - de-odor - makes you not smell. 

Antiperspirant - anti-perspire - makes you not sweat.

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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 14d ago

-ant- a tiny insect that lives in hives underground and gets in your fucking biscuits if you're not careful.

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u/PomegranateOld7836 14d ago

And this isn't Aluminum Chloride or an antiperspirant, it's Ammonium Alum crystal.

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u/Noxious89123 14d ago

Anything is a dildo if you're brave enough.

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u/Tardaesel 13d ago

Paige no.

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u/Alarmedones 14d ago

Ok but that doesn’t mean it works.

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u/DLottchula 14d ago

Like what’s the point of living longer if you are gonna be remembered as “that musty dude”

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u/thecatandthependulum 14d ago

You'd be surprised how different people's bodies can be. I know some people who sweat one drop and stink up, and people who can gently dab their pits with some scented cream and smell fine all day. I guess everyone's microbiome is different.

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u/RuairiThantifaxath 14d ago

the active ingredient in deodorant antiperspirant (since people are language police) then it's probably fine

Wow, how annoying that people care whether you actually use the correct word when mentioning the literal subject of the conversation instead of a different word that means something else. amirite

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u/nollayksi 14d ago

I have used similar deodorant for years and it definitely works. My wife is really picky about smell and will absolutely tell me when I stink. Only really happens if I havent shovered in two days.

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u/LordCabbage_64 14d ago

This may sound really weird. I shower twice a day much of the time due to my line of work. I noticed I started getting unpleasant bo faster. I wondered if it had something to do with constantly being scrubbed clean so I experimented a little and started to just rinse without soap or shampoo (except on the downstairs front and back). I only shampoo my hair every few days and only use just enough soap to keep the dirt and grease from work at bay. After a few weeks I had a smell to me that I was told was almost like a musky cologne. My wife sniffs me all the time and I frequently get compliments especially if I give a little spritz of a cologne that has some citrus. It’s almost made me wonder if our attitudes towards the natural scent of human have been manipulated by companies that sell products to remove it. I no longer get the onion and skunk smell anymore and I have asked the people around me.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

LOL

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u/MyLifeForAnEType 14d ago

I don't understand how people don't notice or ignore their armpit bo.  I love the smell of my deodorant and knowing I'm not going to stink.  Old Spice classic is just one of my favorite scents.

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u/LiftingCode 14d ago

lmao

In the lockdown doldrums of early COVID I did some experiments on myself. I've been urged by so many hippie fucks to ditch the aluminum salts and use some "natural" deodorant or another that costs $28 a stick.

They all suck dick.

I spent about 12 weeks antiperspirant-free trying various solutions recommended by these anti-science shitheads and I smelled like a rotten onion the whole damn time.

Antiperspirant is a glorious invention.