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People that don’t wear antiperspirant… (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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do you not smell body odor or do you just get used to it?

Genuinely curious. I have met a few people of different walks of life that I could tell did not and I have always used it, so I’m just curious. I know there was a couple that stopped using it for around a year, and they said their body actually end up not perspiring as much as when they used antiperspirant, but I’d like to know other people’s experiences.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not a fan of antiperspirant. They're supposed to stop you from sweating but for me they just make my sweating worse for when they eventually run their course. So i just use deodorant now.

I have sensitive skin under my armpits it seems so I have to be careful with what did I use under there and the only ones I seen to get away with are the natural ones that try to neutralise the smell by killing the bacteria that create that smell rather just masking the smell like most standard deodorant. It's not 100% but it's better for my skin and it's better than putting nothing at all on.

I'll never use antiperspirant again though, they just clog up pores and what they clog pores with is often a big pollutant to the rest of the world or at least damaging to the environment around you for little animals.