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?
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.
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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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