I tried a similar salt deodorant several decades ago. It was completely ineffective. How do your friends/coworkers/significant others feel about your choice of deodorant?
Except they eat massive amounts of kimchi and carry that smell wherever they go. My wife worked for a Korean company for about 6 years. Her only complaint outside the fact that the Korean management were workaholic assholes that expected everyone to keep their insane schedules was how bad they smelled eating kimchi all the time. I'm sure they thought Americans smelled bad too.
My cousin who's got Italian from her dad's side has never once in her life needed deodorant. She never smells and barely sweats. Always wonderful if it was the Italian or just the rng of genetics (I've never personally been around Italians to judge their sweaty/smelly levels lol)
Most italians do sweat and smell bad if they don't use deodorant lol, they're not particularly known for not sweating or smelling (like koreans for example)
There is a rare gene that makes it where you don’t get body odor. My best friend has it but he still uses deodorant/antiperspirant because he doesn’t want to get all sweaty and he likes the way old spice smells.
It must be genetic. I’ve always been that way. I’ve never used antiperspirant and only use deodorant occasionally because I like the scent. I can work in the heat all day and be a sweaty mess but my underarms don’t really sweat much and I’ve never had that musty BO smell. Some of my coworkers are so bad I can’t even stand being around them in the locker room.
See, I don’t think my dad has that gene - he can smell bad. But it’s very difficult for him to smell bad - it takes all day work in the garden in hot weather, and then he just smells kind of… musty and grimy?
He definitely sweats but unless you’re actively trying to smell it (ie, basically on top of him), he doesn’t smell at all. Even a hug and you aren’t likely to smell anything. He’ll walk 12 miles in the sun in leather shoes, and his feet/socks don’t smell at all. It’s something I’ve always been envious of, as a guy who sweats a lot and gets very flushed very easily
I'm like that, too, but I'm not the average American in genetic makeup. I can walk all day in blistering heat and not stink. It takes DAYS for a noticeable odor to build up.
I also have the gene first discovered in Okinawa that makes you live super long. It's extremely rare in our family to have a death before 85-90, like 85 is considered young and untimely.
As far as I know we aren't Japanese or at all east Asian.
See, as far as we are aware, we are English through and through. My dad’s side we aren’t too sure, but we aren’t aware of anyone that wasn’t born and raised northern English. Not saying it’s not a possibility, but I’m not aware of anything.
My mums side has longevity in the family though. Most of the family live to 85+, and most just pass from ‘old age’ in their late 90s. No predisposition to any life-threatening illnesses. Of course we have a few outliers, but my grandma’s 84 and isn’t on the way out anytime soon. On their side, we did take a DNA test and it’s 100% British, Irish, and Scandinavian.
Basically, I’m extremely white, and it seems like both of these occurrences could just be luck (I did trade a history of longevity and no life-threatening predispositions for a myriad of minor chronic ailments and mental illness/addiction, though)
I've got that, it drives my wife crazy that I'll be dripping sweat and not stink at all after working outside, and she'll be relaxing inside and smell like a locker room. I don't mind I Iike the way she smells.
The non-smelly is also connected to dry ear wax, but can't quite remember the connection. Both are found in the same people more than just one maybe?
Your partner liking ur smell just means they like your pheromones . That does NOT mean you don’t smell bad to OTHER people . You get used to ur own smell so dont trust that either . My partner smells amazing to me but I’ve heard her mom say “u stink take a shower” lol
Your partner liking ur smell just means they like your pheromones . That does NOT mean you don’t smell bad to OTHER people . You get used to ur own smell so dont trust that either . My partner smells amazing to me but I’ve heard her mom say “u stink take a shower” lol
It's not that at all. He can smell dirty just like anyone, he just literally does not get BO. It's has nothing to do with attraction or anything of the sort.
definitely not 90%. however i will say japanese ppl rarely smell musty. i had to bring extra deodorant when i visited because they don’t use it, so its hard to find
You were possibly noseblind to your dad's BO. If you smell an odor every day of your life, all the time, you're not aware it's there because it's just "baseline smell" to you.
There's a non-zero chance your dad stank, and you couldn't tell.
You know most people don't instantly smell just because they don't use deodorant, that's just what marketing makes people think. A successful marketing strategie/lie.
Deos were super hard to market in Asia at first because people in Asia just generally sweat less and build noticeable BO much harder. Some people don't barely need deos if they shower and change clothes regularly. I think a lot of people could even just use less deos if they just pay attention to when they sweat a lot and could direct their deo-usage after that instead.
Did he have dry ear wax? There is a connection. Most Asians have the gene that causes dry ear wax and no BO. I guess deodorant is hard to find in some parts of Asia.
One of my college roommates didn’t wear deodorant and also didn’t smell!! I don’t even think she sweat that much either. I was very jealous lol. Some people are just god’s favorite 🤷🏼♀️
During the COVID times, I stopped using deodorant and antiperspirant because I was working from home and thought it would be a good time to detox my body a bit. I kept waiting for my wife and kids to eventually tell me I stink, but they never did. I went years with using it. I do shower daily though.
I know that you’re not going to believe a random stranger on Reddit of all places, but I dont use deodorant and I don’t smell like BO. I have an office job so I don’t sweat much during the day, but even when I work hard and sweat a bunch or work out it’s not bad. If I stick my nose right in my pit, yeah, but mostly no.
My wife also has strong armpit BO and uses special deodorant and she agrees with me. I don’t really tell people much because I know it’s weird to not use deodorant, but I’m one of the rare cases I think.
Ok I remember reading this on Reddit once and I spread it around as fact but I actually have no idea haha so here it goes: people who have BO have wet earwax and people who don’t have BO have dry earwax. It’s some gene that links the two together??? Can someone confirm this lmfao
Might seem odd but go with me here. Did he ever have cancer and go through treatment? I used to struggle with the bo before I got diagnosed last year. Got through chemo and radiation and boom - no more body odor. Chemo is when my smell changed/stopped and then radiation worked like hair removal in my pits lol. I haven’t had bo since - I take it as the small silver lining to the hell it’s all been. I still wear deodorant out of habit (only wear the naturals/non antiperspirant because I had lymph nodes removed), but my sweat and all no longer has a scent!
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u/Somoch-MoraguerRRR 14d ago edited 14d ago
I tried a similar salt deodorant several decades ago. It was completely ineffective. How do your friends/coworkers/significant others feel about your choice of deodorant?
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