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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] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, I'm kindof an outlier, I guess...

I bathe regularly and I have always used Safeguard antibacterial soap. I work physically....construction, handyman, remodeling, woodworking, etc. I live in a tropical climate. In spite of all that, I rarely sweat (most likely due to climate because I sweated like a pig when I lived in SE US). When chatting with clients, I'd make an apologetic comment about my smell and they always respond with "you don't smell."

I assumed that this was just being nice and cordial, but my wife says "no, they're right. You don't smell". I assure you that she is NOT trying to be cordial, and it turned into a conversation in which she insisted that I don't smell. "I can tell you've been working, but you don't smell bad or anything..."

So I would occasionally "forget" to wear deodorant. Eventually I stopped wearing it altogether. Same thing: not smelly. I HAVE to assume that it is because the soap killed all the smelly bacteria.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Some people also just don't smell. I found that hard to believe, but my GF a) never sweats and b) even when she does, it's not smelly.