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People Who Don't Wear Deodorant or Seemingly Bathe Regularly, Why? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Maybe they say 2-3 times a week when the reality is that they’re hedging based on reaction and they actually shower closer to once a week.

That said, I realized recently that I could smell someone else’s unwashed hair. I have no idea how recently they washed it, but now I’m semi-paranoid about how fast that happens. I shower (including hair washes) at minimum every other day, with an occasional weekend spent at home when I’m extra lazy and don’t shower all weekend. I sure hope my hair doesn’t smell like that on day 2.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I think it really varies per person, I know people who genuinely shower twice a week and are fine, but I have one person in my mind now who showers daily and I can tell when I see him in the evening if his shower was in the morning.

And yeah, I can absolutely smell hair grease, it's quite a lot once you identify the smell.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

You just described my usual routine. If I didn't shower that day, I'll put on some fresh deodorant and all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Try an all natural solid bar shampoo. I went from my hair feeling lank and greasy in day two after a wash to only having to wash it twice a week.

I feel like the chemicals in just mainstream shampoo reak havoc on hair and lock you in to a daily use cycle.