• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 days ago

    except you don’t smell our natural scent, you smell the stench of bacterial byproducts, because people can’t go around constantly cleaning their armpits.

    Also you can just get deoderants that aren’t antiperspirants. There’s no downside to those, they just neutralize the smell and cover up the remnants with some perfume. (you can even find pure deoderants without even perfume if you look hard enough).

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      8 days ago

      smell the stench of bacterial byproducts

      True. Smells of bacteria’s farts.

      people can’t go around constantly cleaning their armpits.

      In theory we could if you catch my drift. Some people use it as a fetish, but personally I’m not that brave.

      Also you can just get deoderants that aren’t antiperspirants

      Pardon my eventual ignorance, but from my understanding deodorants are perfumed - “stink mitigation” if you will and antiperspirants are just to try and sweat less, like “stink prevention”

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        8 days ago

        as the name suggests de-odorants are supposed to remove the smell, and the perfume is just an extra to mask what’s left over and to make you actively smell nice.
        The stuff i get is lightly perfumed and works great, it frankly baffles me that it’s not the standard. There are also completely non-perfumed ones, usually branded for people who are allergic or sensitive to smells or somesuch.