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People Who Don't Wear Deodorant or Seemingly Bathe Regularly, Why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Zahille7@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Like, I travel around for work and I've met plenty of people from all backgrounds.

Why is there a demographic of people who don't seemingly bathe regularly, or at the very least wear something to cover up their BO? I could understand if it's an allergy, or even religious reasons (though the people I've met that smell bad are usually you're average American young adult man) but recently (like in the past week, recently) I've met a concerning number of people who don't seem to wear any kind of deodorant or possibly don't even bathe regularly; it's starting to become an issue for me, as I don't even want to interact with them when I can smell them walking up from 3+ feet away yet I need to for work.

Does anyone have any possible insight?

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[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I just don't like them. I like the natural body odors, even with women, I hate it when they cover that up with some heavy perfume.

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[–] OmgItBurns@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know I will let myself go when I'm in the midst of being deeply depressed, but then again I usually don't get much past my bed then. So that could be some of it.

I used to have a buddy that stank to high heaven, good dude overall, but damn did he smell. Turned out that he never washed his clothes. Once he got in the habit of doing that the problem resolved itself quickly.

The only other thing I can think of would be some Andrew Tate types going on about some made up benefits of 'natural male musk ' or something like that. Not sure if anyone is doing that, but I could see some men taking to that advice.

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Some ethnicities have less or different body odor. So some people just don't need much or any deodorant.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4724538/

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I've noticed a lot of people don't do things the way I do them and it bothers me too!! Stomp your right foot with me if you agree!

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't apply deodorant at all. Maybe before I know I'm about to be active, but even without it, it's fine, I shower after anyways.

[–] Damaskox@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Never tried using deodorant. I didn't like the idea of using it. Showering has been enough for me. (I'm 32)
Nowadays I have a skin condition in my armpits so I don't think it would be wise to use that stuff anymore anyway.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I am not of those you are describing but in general: Some can have (afaik) genes that do not necessitate the use of deodorants.

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