Deodorant

[cjs55]

Is it true!?

http://deoxy.org/dodorant.htm

1.Body smells are erotic and sensual. Capitalists don't like that because they are impotent and opposed to all manifestations of sensuality and sexuality. Sexually-awakened people are potentially dangerous to capitalists and their rigid, asexual system.

2.Body smells remind us that we are animals. Capitalists don't want to be reminded of that. Animals are dirty. They eat things off the ground. They are openly sexual. They don't wear tuxedos or corsets or have their hair done.

3.Body smells are unique. Everyone has her own body smell. Capitalists don't like individuality. There are millions of body smells but only a few deodorant smells. Capitalists like that.

4.Deodorants are harmful. Many capitalists like that because they are always looking for new illnesses to cure. Capitalists love to invent new medicines. Medicines make money for them and win them prizes. They also cause new illnesses so that they can invent even more medicines.

5.Deodorants cost you money. Capitalists are especially pleased about that.

6.Deodorants hide the damage that capitalists' products cause to your body. Eating meat and other body pollutants sold by capitalists makes you smell. Wearing pantyhose makes you smell. Capitalists don't want you to stop wearing pantyhose or eating body pollutants.

7.Deodorant-users are insecure. Capitalists like insecure people. Insecure people don't start trouble. Insecure people also buy room freshners, hair conditioners, and makeup.

8.Deodorants are unnecessary. Capitalists are very proud of that and they win marketing awards for it.

[waxwing]

This could explain my armpit fetish. Seriously.

[cjs55]

Hah. I'm assuming you have a fetish for the non-deodorant immersed armpit?

[Wiki]

Its all about $$ but many perfumes and deodorants mix well with natural pheromones and enhance to create a more favorable smell that ends up being less offensive. It is actually a good thing.

It is the anti-perspirants that are actually unhealthy and block your sweat glands with aluminum.

I appreciate that people wear deodorant, and some perfumes combined with Pheromones make some women smell irresistable and very sexy. You should try to get the honest opinion from the opposite sex on which works best.

If a woman is attracted to me I find certain bottled pheromones when used sparingly can seal the deal, and they dont know what came over them. Ok I've revealed too much.

At the world series of poker this year, some guy smelled so offensive that they brought him deodorant and made him wear it.

[cjs55]

I appreciate that people wear deodorant, and some perfumes combined with pheremones make some women smell irresistable and very sexy. You should try to get the honest opinion from the opposite sex on which works best.

If a woman is attracted to me I find certain bottled pheremones when used sparingly can seal the deal, and they dont know what came over them. Ok I've revealed too much.

This is most likely the little trick I've been missing! hehe.

However, I have had a below average reaction to every perfume I've ever smelled on a women up to this point, so I guess different things work for different people.

[C.J.Woolf]

Each person's body odor attracts some but repels others. (Happy lovers like each other's smell.) So I suppose it's just as well that we wear deodorant, or we'd be a bunch of walking olfactory boom boxes of which only a small fraction "played" anything we like.

[cjs55]

Meh, don't know why that's a bad thing. You'll have to deal with it with your partner eventually, right?

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you are saying.

[waxwing]

Hah. I'm assuming you have a fetish for the non-deodorant immersed armpit? Right. If I am at all turned on, I go right for the armpit, preferably one that doesn't smell/taste like deodorant.

It started when I was quite young. I remember male teachers whose armpits were sweaty when they wrote on the chalkboard. It always sort of fascinated me.

I was discussing this fetish with someone not too long ago, and I think I figured out that it's not only the scent I like, but the association of hiding underneath a man's arm. Since I am short, I most often find myself somewhere in that vicinity. It has even caused an emotional reaction on one or two occasions.

[Sackanaka]

Are deodorants harmful? I've heard both sides-
It is harmful because it prevents the natural release of otherwise excreted liquids and wastes of the armpit. This in turn may cause the temperature to rise in the area, requiring the body to accomodate by sweating more in other areas.

It is not harmful because there are no necessary wastes to be excreted; sweat is released to cool off the skin and preventing it does not poison the body. If you need to sweat, you will in other areas.

Which is more true?

[C.J.Woolf]

Meh, don't know why that's a bad thing. You'll have to deal with it with your partner eventually, right?

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you are saying.
(Assuming you're replying to me)

I'm trying to say it's OK to go natural in private with your partner since he/she will enjoy it, but we wear deodorant for the sake of everyone we encounter in public.

[Wiki]

I met one girl who said nothing was more of a turn on to her than a sweaty guy, but the other girls in the room seemed to disagree.

I think when a guy sweats wearing Drakkar it stinks to high hell, but the same smell turns some women on.

When I've worn pheromones with cologne Ive been irresistible to some women, but it will have an opposite effect on guys (thank goodness).

not all are created equal, quality ones are pricey, and there are near fakes out there with inadequate amounts dilute, PM me if you want more info on where to get the best selection/prices.

Do not ever use more than a drop behind the neck and wrists, and finger dab on your pubic hair. This is not supposed to replace cologne and you do not want to reek of it, it must subtle. Less achieves more desired results with added pheromones.

As far as getting and staying close enough for long enough for him/her to respond to
your scent, can be found on the never ending dating advice threads.

BTW if the person youre trying attract doesnt like you this wont work. Scent reinforces memory, it will not replace it. Pheromones are not a cure for what you say either.

Your hits, if you have any game at all, will increase.

[Ivy]

1.Body smells are erotic and sensual. Capitalists don't like that because they are impotent and opposed to all manifestations of sensuality and sexuality. Sexually-awakened people are potentially dangerous to capitalists and their rigid, asexual system.

2.Body smells remind us that we are animals. Capitalists don't want to be reminded of that. Animals are dirty. They eat things off the ground. They are openly sexual. They don't wear tuxedos or corsets or have their hair done.

3.Body smells are unique. Everyone has her own body smell. Capitalists don't like individuality. There are millions of body smells but only a few deodorant smells. Capitalists like that.

4.Deodorants are harmful. Many capitalists like that because they are always looking for new illnesses to cure. Capitalists love to invent new medicines. Medicines make money for them and win them prizes. They also cause new illnesses so that they can invent even more medicines.

5.Deodorants cost you money. Capitalists are especially pleased about that.

6.Deodorants hide the damage that capitalists' products cause to your body. Eating meat and other body pollutants sold by capitalists makes you smell. Wearing pantyhose makes you smell. Capitalists don't want you to stop wearing pantyhose or eating body pollutants.

7.Deodorant-users are insecure. Capitalists like insecure people. Insecure people don't start trouble. Insecure people also buy room freshners, hair conditioners, and makeup.

8.Deodorants are unnecessary. Capitalists are very proud of that and they win marketing awards for it.


Don't numbers 1, 2, and 3 sort of contradict with number 6? Are body smells sexy/natural/unique, or do they mean you're polluted by meat and pantyhose?

Number 4- how are they harmful? I've heard the thing about aluminum, and the thing about stopping up your sweat glands, but it has always seemed pseudo-sciency to me. That might just be because I've never seen it in a reputable source, though.

Number 5- no doubt, they do cost money. Can't argue with that.

Number 8- I guess it depends on what you consider "necessary." I don't think people would want to leave their children in my care if I smell like armpit.

Having said all that, I don't care for deodorant/anti-perspirants. A salt stone works fine for me.

[cjs55]

1, 2, 3 and do and do not contradict 6, because 6 only exists because of other products we buy that cause negative effects on us. This is supposedly an example of capatalism spawning an endless supply of corrective products.

I'd say the point of this little article isn't really to point out that deodorant is harmful (which I don't know about), but rather a cycle of harmful capatalistic consumption based on it's very nature.

I am somewhat inclined to agree, at least as far as capatlism's current state in the context of our current society is concerned.

[PiccoloNamek]

Not everyone has a unique body smell either. Some people (most notably, northest asians) have no apocrine glands at all, and hence, no body odor. It's very hard to buy deodorant in Japan or Korea.

[Bugeater]

I don't have a problem with deodorant, but I can't stand cologne and perfume. My nose is really sensitive and no matter what the scent, I shy away from the people who wear it.

[eyebyte_atWork]

Each person's body odor attracts some but repels others. (Happy lovers like each other's smell.) So I suppose it's just as well that we wear deodorant, or we'd be a bunch of walking olfactory boom boxes of which only a small fraction "played" anything we like.

And that would not fly on a crowded train in the evening rush hour.

[Birdsnest]

I also am sensitive to smells of perfumes and colognes. I actually asked a date to wash off his cologne once, it was just terrible and I couldn't even sit near him, this was on our first date even. I would never do that unless it was entirely dependant on my being able to be in same room.

Well, and I buy a natural deoderant from Toms of Maine, with honeysuckle. It doesn't have the aluminum in it that most have which can be a cause of alzheimers. www.tomsofmaine.com (http://www.tomsofmaine.com/) has nice natural products. Honeysuckle Rose is my standby for the past 15 years or more:http://www.tomsofmaine.com/toms/product.asp?dept%5Fid=500&pf%5Fid=BW%2DND. Its true it doesn't work as well as modern deoderant, but I like it anyway.

[eyebyte_atWork]

I also am sensitive to smells of perfumes and colognes. I actually asked a date to wash off his cologne once, it was just terrible and I couldn't even sit near him, this was on our first date even. I would never do that unless it was entirely dependant on my being able to be in same room.

Well, and I buy a natural deoderant from Toms of Maine, with honeysuckle. It doesn't have the aluminum in it that most have which can be a cause of alzheimers. www.tomsofmaine.com (http://www.tomsofmaine.com/) has nice natural products. Honeysuckle Rose is my standby for the past 15 years or more:http://www.tomsofmaine.com/toms/product.asp?dept%5Fid=500&pf%5Fid=BW%2DND


I'll have to check them out - I am allergic to anything artifical with oder

I have sneezing fits in the shower due to my shampoo - I sneeze more when I read the paper on the train ride to work.

Again thanks for that link.

[Ivy]

I'll have to check them out - I am allergic to anything artifical with oder

I have sneezing fits in the shower due to my shampoo - I sneeze more when I read the paper on the train ride to work.

Again thanks for that link.

Have you tried using a salt stone? http://www.deodorantstones.com/ One stone will last a year or more and they work really well. Better than regular deodorants, for me.

[eyebyte_atWork]

Have you tried using a salt stone? http://www.deodorantstones.com/ One stone will last a year or more and they work really well. Better than regular deodorants, for me.


Thanks for the link - I am checking it out right now.

[Madrigal]

I don't like having to smell people's BO. I would much prefer awful perfume/deoderant to smelly armpits.

I always believed that female attraction for sweaty men was a myth created by men as an excuse to not shower as often.

My bf says he feels less attracted to me when I have just showered. I'm really paranoid about cleanliness and I don't like to have sex if I feel dirty (whatever, off to the therapist I go). This has caused several arguments. He also likes it when my deoderant wears off. Fortunately, he likes French perfume as compensation for lack of BO. Expensive habit, though.

[kuranes]

I prefer the deodorant to the anti-perspirant, as Wiki says. Sometimes I feel a pinching sensation with those products.

Is the "stone" just the same stuff as a long lasting solid? I saw the word "aluminum" mentioned.

[Ivy]

I prefer the deodorant to the anti-perspirant, as Wiki says. Sometimes I feel a pinching sensation with those products.

Is the "stone" just the same stuff as a long lasting solid? I saw the word "aluminum" mentioned.

It's a salt crystal (potassium alum, I think). You wet it and rub it on your stinky spots (armpits and feet, pretty much) and it kills the bacteria that cause you to stink. At least I think that's how it works. Anyway, it works well for me, and I am pretty self-conscious about smelling funny. Just the way the capitolists want me to be.

[Helios]

I have pretty neurotic skin, deodorant will irritate it, and anti-perspirant will flip it out, inflamed,red, and generally pissed off. Hence I have never used such products and suspect they aren't good for you. I was a fan of witchhazel ,but since found an anti-microb medical wash (from my face issue), that is great, it kills all the lil buggies/odor. Beside I typcally take 2-3 showers in a day anyway (morning-gym-bedtime).


Anti-perspirant is evil ,but I like Capitalism, in fact I am off the office to exploit the proletariat now! If I am really lucky maybe I can gouge a person from the Third World! :banana:





see, a banana pun, clever huh?

[CoHo]

Yeah yeah, pheromones are a good thing but the 10 billion bacteria cells fucking in my pits have got to go!

[kuranes]

I used to use a drop of musk oil, back in the day.

[C.J.Woolf]

An aside:

Mrs. Woolf is my cinnamon girl. She used Mennen cinnamon-scented deodorant. That combined with her natural scent was better than any perfume to me. When we lived apart I started using it myself because it reminded me of her.

Then Mennen stopped selling it, and I can't find cinnamon deodorant of any description anymore. Bastards.

[SensEye]

First of all, this capatilist has absolutely nothing against sex and sensuality, so the whole premise of the initial post is flawed. It's just that communism runs the economy into the ground so the only recreational pursuit available is sex. This leads to the impression that they embrace it more (that and the fact the state drives the religous fundie's underground).

Regarding the armpit thing, like some others here anti-perspirant gives me a skin rash, so I only use deodorant. I've tried those salt stone things and they appear to work (they certainly last a long time). However, my sense of smell is not all that good so I got nervous about the lack of a scent masking smell and switched back to scented deodorants. I figure if the smell of my deodorant is detectable but I can't smell my B.O. it must be working. With the salt stone, I don't smell any B.O. but then I get worried maybe I just can't detect my own fragrance.

I know women have a generally superior sense of smell compared to men (it's an estrogen thing I believe) so I can see why English is more secure.

[Sackanaka]

I forgot to mention:

In a segment of a lecture in animal behavior class, it was mentioned that a correlation was made between individuals' scents and their MHC (major histocompatibility complex). Women generally found males who had more different MHCs from themselves to smell more attractive, indicating a potential link to smells and selective advantage (by spreading of MHC genes).

I thought that was cool.

[floyd]

people get far smellier after puberty, children have far less need (or often no need) for smell equalizers even though they are more active. so as children it was natural for us, on average, to not smell.

there was also an interesting study in which women were given sweaty t-shirts of men who had been working out. the tshirts they rated as smelling best came from the men with the highest facial and body symmetry. other attraction studies link symmetry with more youthful features... so smelling offensive may be some sort of physical abnormality or decay meter. so i guess the ideal (which maybe few possess) is non offensive smelling without concealment. in any case, i am no fan of the perfume cloud. i prefer deodorant to anti-persperant... i don't like eliminating any naturally occurring phenomenon (i.e. sweat or even myopia - hence my aversion to lasik) unless it would create a significant inconvenience.

[Ivy]

First of all, this capatilist has absolutely nothing against sex and sensuality, so the whole premise of the initial post is flawed. It's just that communism runs the economy into the ground so the only recreational pursuit available is sex. This leads to the impression that they embrace it more (that and the fact the state drives the religous fundie's underground).

Regarding the armpit thing, like some others here anti-perspirant gives me a skin rash, so I only use deodorant. I've tried those salt stone things and they appear to work (they certainly last a long time). However, my sense of smell is not all that good so I got nervous about the lack of a scent masking smell and switched back to scented deodorants. I figure if the smell of my deodorant is detectable but I can't smell my B.O. it must be working. With the salt stone, I don't smell any B.O. but then I get worried maybe I just can't detect my own fragrance.

I know women have a generally superior sense of smell compared to men (it's an estrogen thing I believe) so I can see why English is more secure.

Well, I don't smell myself, but I also got my husband to do a sniff-test to make sure it wasn't just that I was inured to my own scent. Then I thought maybe he was inured to it, too, so I got my sister to do a sniff test. (We're a very close family. LOL) Sorry about the TMI, but there it is. :)

That deodorant crystal company should really hire me. I seem to be very gung ho about it. :)

[meshou]

Don't use it. I don't sweat much even when I am hot.

If I am going to sweat, I put talc down my shirt, because my chest sweats a hell of a lot more than my pits.

[garak]

Gimme all the aluminum and chemicals you got, because my pits fucking sweat. Whole fucking drops of sweat at times that drip down my shirt. My pits are often wet when it's not even hot or warm. And when it is... forget it. I always wear a white t-shirt under my real shirt, so that I don't 1) have visible wet spots, and 2) fuck up the pits of the shirts due to the chemicals and shit. Right Guard gel is the most effective I have found, although not by any huge margin, and whenever I get lots of money I will definitely consider surgery. They just snip one little nerve and all of a sudden, your pits don't sweat anymore. Yes, the rest of your body will often sweat a bit more to compensate, but I am ok with that, as are most recipients of the surgery. It's not a huge deal to me, like it is for some others who get that surgery. For some of them it really has a big impact on their life -- it's not that bad for me, just kind of annoying. And I smell ok.

[Ivy]

Gimme all the aluminum and chemicals you got, because my pits fucking sweat. Whole fucking drops of sweat at times that drip down my shirt. My pits are often wet when it's not even hot or warm. And when it is... forget it. I always wear a white t-shirt under my real shirt, so that I don't 1) have visible wet spots, and 2) fuck up the pits of the shirts due to the chemicals and shit. Right Guard gel is the most effective I have found, although not by any huge margin, and whenever I get lots of money I will definitely consider surgery. They just snip one little nerve and all of a sudden, your pits don't sweat anymore. Yes, the rest of your body will often sweat a bit more to compensate, but I am ok with that, as are most recipients of the surgery. It's not a huge deal to me, like it is for some others who get that surgery. For some of them it really has a big impact on their life -- it's not that bad for me, just kind of annoying. And I smell ok.

I hear you can also get Botox in your 'pits for excessive sweating.

[kuranes]

They just snip one little nerve and all of a sudden, your pits don't sweat anymore. Yes, the rest of your body will often sweat a bit more to compensate, but I am ok with that, as are most recipients of the surgery. It's not a huge deal to me, like it is for some others who get that surgery. For some of them it really has a big impact on their life -- it's not that bad for me, just kind of annoying. And I smell ok.

Hadn't heard of this. Hmmm.

[nottaprettygal]

My pits are often wet when it's not even hot or warm. And when it is... forget it. I always wear a white t-shirt under my real shirt, so that I don't 1) have visible wet spots, and 2) fuck up the pits of the shirts due to the chemicals and shit. Right Guard gel is the most effective I have found, although not by any huge margin, and whenever I get lots of money I will definitely consider surgery.

Dude, try Certain-Dri. It's so powerful that you have to put it on the night before, and it comes with an instruction manual. You know it must be good if you have to follow instructions. It totally stops sweating, which I'm sure probably isn't good for you--but--at least it's more aesthically pleasing.

They did pay me $50,000 to pimp Certain-Dri though.

[garak]

Hadn't heard of this. Hmmm.
They do have to go into your chest cavity, though. It's not like they just snip a nerve right under the skin or something like that.

[CoHo]

They do have to go into your chest cavity, though. It's not like they just snip a nerve right under the skin or something like that.

Are you serious? Like fucking rib-spreader (http://albums.crossmap.com/data/502/2korsius_169_1_.jpg) surgery?

[kuranes]

Ouch

*decides he smells OK for now*

[Madrigal]

Jesus, so many enemies of anti-perspirants! Secret is my best friend. Do they still have that slogan, 'strong enough for a man, pH-balanced just for her'?

[Ivy]

Jesus, so many enemies of anti-perspirants! Secret is my best friend. Do they still have that slogan, 'strong enough for a man, pH-balanced just for her'?

I actually noted the other day when a Secret commercial came on, that they no longer say that. Now they say "Strong enough for a woman."

Edit: I'd probably feel differently about anti-perspirants if I sweated a whole lot. Just keeping myself unstinky is sufficient.

[garak]

Are you serious? Like fucking rib-spreader (http://albums.crossmap.com/data/502/2korsius_169_1_.jpg) surgery?
Nah, they somehow insert a bubble of air in there to give them room to work, then I think they use one of those teeny tiny cameras or something like that. It's not really invasive, but it's just not as simple as a little snip snip.

[Madrigal]

I actually noted the other day when a Secret commercial came on, that they no longer say that. Now they say "Strong enough for a woman."

Wow. Secret got all PC on me and I didn't realize. (I left North America 10 years ago.) My deoderant is no longer 'strong enough for a man'. :(

[garak]

Dude, try Certain-Dri. It's so powerful that you have to put it on the night before, and it comes with an instruction manual. You know it must be good if you have to follow instructions. It totally stops sweating, which I'm sure probably isn't good for you--but--at least it's more aesthically pleasing.

They did pay me $50,000 to pimp Certain-Dri though.
I had heard of it before, but was skeptical and shrugged it off. I just read the amazon reviews though... I might try this out actually.

[attila_the_hunny]

I do not like to sweat, and I do so moderately. These days, what doesn't cause cancer? I usually buy a guy's DO, though.

[nottaprettygal]

I had heard of it before, but was skeptical and shrugged it off. I just read the amazon reviews though... I might try this out actually.

Definitely try it out. I was skeptical too, but works pretty well. One of my friends sweats horribly (like through multiple layers), and it helped her too. I found that when I first starting using it, it took a couple of days to kick in though.

[garak]

Definitely try it out. I was skeptical too, but works pretty well. One of my friends sweats horribly (like through multiple layers), and it helped her too. I found that when I first starting using it, it took a couple of days to kick in though.
Sweet. What you doing this friday? Let's get together and rub our pits on each other.

ew.. what?

[Crazy]

I don't use deoderant, anti-perspirant, cologne, after shave, or anything of the like very often. I don't have a problem with any of that stuff, but I don't have a problem with not using them either, and my absentmindedness usually interferes with my use of such products.

My ex hated that I seldom wear that stuff, but she has a very keen olfactory sense, and can smell if another woman is on the rag from 30 ft away.

I know this other woman that really digs the smell of my BO. She always gives me this sad, puppy dog look when I go to take a shower. She also likes it when I don't shave and have a good 3 or 4 day growth of stubble.

[eyebyte_atWork]

I don't use deoderant, anti-perspirant, cologne, after shave, or anything of the like very often. I don't have a problem with any of that stuff, but I don't have a problem with not using them either, and my absentmindedness usually interferes with my use of such products.

My ex hated that I seldom wear that stuff, but she has a very keen olfactory sense, and can smell if another woman is on the rag from 30 ft away.

I know this other woman that really digs the smell of my BO. She always gives me this sad, puppy dog look when I go to take a shower. She also likes it when I don't shave and have a good 3 or 4 day growth of stubble.


Arg!

There be a limit to what is considere too much BO, Arg!

[nottaprettygal]

Sweet. What you doing this friday? Let's get together and rub our pits on each other.

ew.. what?

Hey, it'll be the most human contact I've experienced in a LONG time.

[eyebyte_atWork]

Hey, it'll be the most human contact I've experienced in a LONG time.

THat is so sad.

[nottaprettygal]

THat is so sad.

You're telling me. I went to a football game this past Sunday and had to get patted down before entering, and I found myself wishing she could have held me a just a bit longer.

[eyebyte_atWork]

You're telling me. I went to a football game this past Sunday and had to get patted down before entering, and I found myself wishing she could have held me a just a bit longer.


I felt the same way when I was arrested and the female police officer patted me down during booking (outstanding traffic tickets)

[Nighthawk]

(outstanding traffic tickets)
That's not what that guy from Columbia told me.

[nottaprettygal]

I felt the same way when I was arrested and the female police officer patted me down during booking (outstanding traffic tickets)

You know what else people should get arrested for? Country line dancing.

:whistle:

[eyebyte_atWork]

You know what else people should get arrested for? Country line dancing.

:whistle:


You promised! Aaaaahhhh!

SSHHH!

[attila_the_hunny]

I was at an airport and I was randomly selected to be molested. She even touched my boobs and I almost wanted her ask her how much I owed her.

[nottaprettygal]

You promised! Aaaaahhhh!

SSHHH!

Oh...I guess I forgot. Sawry. I'll just boot scootin boogey my way to the corner. happppy

[eyebyte_atWork]

Oh...I guess I forgot. Sawry. I'll just boot scootin boogey my way to the corner. happppy


That was harsh.

[eyebyte_atWork]

I was at an airport and I was randomly selected to be molested. She even touched my boobs and I almost wanted her ask her how much I owed her.


I'll do it for free

[attila_the_hunny]

I'll do it for free

I hope you have big hands, because I have a lot of baggage to be checked for booby traps.

[kuranes]

They do ask you to put it all on the rack these days.

[C.J.Woolf]

They do ask you to put it all on the rack these days.
Pun intended?

[Wiki]

Deodorant or not, I too can smell if a woman is getting a visit from aunt flo. I dont find it too offensive, but I dont care fot it. Any one else?

[garak]

Deodorant or not, I too can smell if a woman is getting a visit from aunt flo. I dont find it too offensive, but I dont care fot it. Any one else?
I can't smell it at point blank :blink:

[NoahFence]

I want some deodorant that smells like old sweat.

I'll call it... "Odorant"

[floyd]

i think in the film the jerk, steve martin's character had a can of fake sweat he used when hitting on a woman who was running.

[camille]

Camille you are one of the last people I would ever imagine to have BO. There are plenty of people around that require liberal applications of industrial strengh deodorant just to remain tolerable smelly though.

I'll agree with that, but I do wonder if it has more to do with general cleanliness than deodorant. My house is very clean, my car, my clothing gets hung on an outside line, and I eat clean food. I can get a good stink on if I'm working outside in the summer, but in general, I don't sweat to the point that I need deodorant.

In my hub's line of work, he has often complained of guys smelling terribly because they didn't wear deodorant.

I have a friend who doesn't wear deodorant and she stinks. She also, maybe, washes her clothing?

[ryan_m_parr]

In my hub's line of work, he has often complained of guys smelling terribly because they didn't wear deodorant.

I have a friend who doesn't wear deodorant and she stinks. She also, maybe, washes her clothing?

Meat contributes to a great deal of smell. I've known a few people I've run into to have halitosis, and suspect some malnourishment.

Possible thread: I wonder what INTP on average eat and their views of eating meat (not that the above sentence is related to inquiry.

[camille]

Meat contributes to a great deal of smell. I've known a few people I've run into to have halitosis, and suspect some malnourishment.

Possible thread: I wonder what INTP on average eat and their views of eating meat (not that the above sentence is related to inquiry.

I found this when looking something up for a friend.

Body odor and what you eat. (http://www.naturalnews.com/004417.html)

EDIT: Not familiar with the author or site so I can't vouch for the info, but some of it I've heard before.

[stopharian]

Meat contributes to a great deal of smell. I've known a few people I've run into to have halitosis, and suspect some malnourishment.

Possible thread: I wonder what INTP on average eat and their views of eating meat (not that the above sentence is related to inquiry.

Not necessarily meat. Asians generally attribute western body odor to dairy.

[LastRailway]

Not necessarily meat. Asians generally attribute western body odor to dairy.

I'd think all kind of digestion issues contribute to body , odour, regardless of the source (be it meat, diary, vegetables, etc).

I've heard that spicy foods add a lot to body odour, but I'm not sure it's true - at least I've never noticed this.

[Ferrus]

Each person's body odor attracts some but repels others. (Happy lovers like each other's smell.) So I suppose it's just as well that we wear deodorant, or we'd be a bunch of walking olfactory boom boxes of which only a small fraction "played" anything we like.
Except now we are all alienated zombies.

[Oso Mocoso]

I've heard that spicy foods add a lot to body odour, but I'm not sure it's true - at least I've never noticed this.

For a while, just because of where I spent my time at work I had an almost exclusive diet of spicy Indian food. My wife told me it had a pretty extreme change on my body odor. She said it wasn't necessarily unpleasant, but that it made me smell distinctly different.

[camille]

Except now we are all alienated zombies.

On a related subject, I've never understood the purpose of deodorant tampons.

When I switched to cloth menstrual pads, my mother-in-law swore I'd smell. Hub says I don't; I asked him to let me know.

Hardly any of us actually smell like ourselves, and it begins in childhood with the products our parents use on our bodies. Kids' shampoo that smells like grapes and strawberries, but they really smell like chemicals.

I think part of the allure of country men and laborers is that they smell like themselves after they've been working all day.

On the nights I go into town to walk, I pick up all kinds of scents coming from people's houses. In the evening, I can smell the laundry detergent or fabric softener at this one house where they are drying their clothes in the dryer.

[stopharian]

If you rub garlic cloves on the soles of your feet some of the chemicals invloved will pass directly through your skin and into the blood stream. The odor of garlic will come out in your breath within minutes.

[lbloom]

Deodorant or not, I too can smell if a woman is getting a visit from aunt flo. I dont find it too offensive, but I dont care fot it. Any one else?

Strangely enough, I generally get it from women that I don't find attractive.

[djm]

If you rub garlic cloves on the soles of your feet some of the chemicals invloved will pass directly through your skin and into the blood stream. The odor of garlic will come out in your breath within minutes.

That's what the French say, I say they could use more soap though ;)

[gunslingerfry]

Apparently, you guys haven't met the crazy guy from my school that taps his head with his fingers all the time with BO that can be smelled across the room. He needs to wear deodorant because that smell is foul.

On the one hand, I think that body odor would not be the way it is without a purpose. On the other hand, I can't even stand my own body odor, let alone others' BO.

Final decision: Everyone should wear deodorant.

[djm]

Apparently, you guys haven't met the crazy guy from my school that taps his head with his fingers all the time with BO that can be smelled across the room. He needs to wear deodorant because that smell is foul.

On the one hand, I think that body odor would not be the way it is without a purpose. On the other hand, I can't even stand my own body odor, let alone others' BO.

Final decision: Everyone should wear deodorant.

When the wind is blowing from Europe, you can catch a whiff of France from this side of the channel in Hastings.

[manza]

Well, and I buy a natural deoderant from Toms of Maine, with honeysuckle. It doesn't have the aluminum in it that most have which can be a cause of alzheimers. www.tomsofmaine.com (http://www.tomsofmaine.com/) has nice natural products. Honeysuckle Rose is my standby for the past 15 years or more:http://www.tomsofmaine.com/toms/product.asp?dept%5Fid=500&pf%5Fid=BW%2DND. Its true it doesn't work as well as modern deoderant, but I like it anyway.

I used to do Calendula, but have moved to Woodspice. I dunno how others feel about it, but I love smelling piney. Unless I'm in an intensely stressful situation, it's completely sufficient.

[ryan_m_parr]

When the wind is blowing from Europe, you can catch a whiff of France from this side of the channel in Hastings.


They do smell pretty bad sometimes. :p

[Google Monster]

Have you tried using a salt stone? http://www.deodorantstones.com/ One stone will last a year or more and they work really well. Better than regular deodorants, for me.


Thanks for the link - I am checking it out right now.


I have pretty neurotic skin, deodorant will irritate it, and anti-perspirant will flip it out, inflamed,red, and generally pissed off. Hence I have never used such products and suspect they aren't good for you. I was a fan of witchhazel ,but since found an anti-microb medical wash (from my face issue), that is great, it kills all the lil buggies/odor. Beside I typcally take 2-3 showers in a day anyway (morning-gym-bedtime).


Anti-perspirant is evil ,but I like Capitalism, in fact I am off the office to exploit the proletariat now! If I am really lucky maybe I can gouge a person from the Third World! :banana:





see, a banana pun, clever huh?

I always had stinky armpits, I used many different stuff but my pits keep getting infected or something cause it hurts like hell to move my hands. So I just stopped using deodorants for awhile. Until I bought that frickin stone! I paid 7 bucks for one stone 6 months ago and still using it now. It's scent-free, I love that because it doesn't mix scents with the cologne I'm wearing. :gm: