Deodorant? More like odorant. It’s just over applied cologne/etc. by another name.
You still smell bad under that and need to take a shower, drink more water, smoke less, and eat fewer onions.
Fun fact: sweat itself doesn’t stink. Follow-up fun fact: humans make two types of sweat, and only one leads to dank body odor. Eccrine sweat glands are spread out all over your body. Apocrine sweat glands produce “stress sweat” that’s thicker and sticker, typically in moments when you’re anxious or nervous. Apocrine glands are in your armpits and taint. Bacteria love growing in this sticky sweat and are what make that typical “body odor”.
My wife has that gene and I have the exact opposite. She can go for a week long backpacking trip and smell like nothing while my body will defeat any deodorant in under 6 hours just sitting in the office.
Wearing natural fabrics helps a lot too. They can absorb and make moisture unavailable so the bacteria aren’t able to produce as much of a scent.
Wool is fantastic at this, but other fabrics can too like cotton and linen. Polyester in the other hand does not absorb water at all, it just sits in the surface of the fabric letting the bacteria have their feast and producing smells.
That explains why my pits get so fucking sweaty when I’m playing a high stress game like trying to get P-rank in Ultrakill. Reading more into that source also explains why I sometimes am dripping sweat from my face when I’m really really focused on something.
Deodorant? More like odorant. It’s just over applied cologne/etc. by another name.
You still smell bad under that and need to take a shower, drink more water, smoke less, and eat fewer onions.
Fun fact: sweat itself doesn’t stink. Follow-up fun fact: humans make two types of sweat, and only one leads to dank body odor. Eccrine sweat glands are spread out all over your body. Apocrine sweat glands produce “stress sweat” that’s thicker and sticker, typically in moments when you’re anxious or nervous. Apocrine glands are in your armpits and taint. Bacteria love growing in this sticky sweat and are what make that typical “body odor”.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/sweat
For the love of the onion, please stay hydrated.
Also fun fact: Some populations like Korea have a ‘broken’ gene that makes it so they don’t secrete sweat from the Apocrine gland. Lucky ducks.
I have a friend like that. Sweats at the gym at lunch, towels off, goes to work, no problem.
My wife has that gene and I have the exact opposite. She can go for a week long backpacking trip and smell like nothing while my body will defeat any deodorant in under 6 hours just sitting in the office.
Wearing natural fabrics helps a lot too. They can absorb and make moisture unavailable so the bacteria aren’t able to produce as much of a scent.
Wool is fantastic at this, but other fabrics can too like cotton and linen. Polyester in the other hand does not absorb water at all, it just sits in the surface of the fabric letting the bacteria have their feast and producing smells.
Linen’s good at it, cotton’s pretty bad, rayon however is excellent (aka viscose, “bamboo” etc) despite being semi-synthetic.
I believe that deodorant also contains stuff that kills the bacteria that cause BO.
That explains why my pits get so fucking sweaty when I’m playing a high stress game like trying to get P-rank in Ultrakill. Reading more into that source also explains why I sometimes am dripping sweat from my face when I’m really really focused on something.