+145 Deodorant/Anti-Perspirant Is Unnecessary For Most People, amirite?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This is not an unpopular opinion its just objectively untrue lol The number of people who naturally produce body odor > the number of people who dont

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Also, what about people who sweat every day? Good for you if you don't naturally produce body odor in a stagnant situation, but you'll be smelling nasty if you work out daily, perform any kind of manual labor for more than 5 consecutive minutes/day, or just spend enough time in the sun.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I did not say that most people don't naturally produce body odor. See below.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This is far from accurate. It is a very small number of people that don't produce body odour. Not "most".

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Allow me to clarify. I don't believe that the underarm sweat of most people does not produce body odor, after several hours. As we all know, the sweat itself does not have an odor. But it contains oils which bacteria which is always found on the body feeds on and breaks down, producing odor, after several hours. What I believe is that the odor, which takes the bacteria several hours to produce anyway, does not become strong enough on most people to be detectable unless one literally sticks one's nose into the person's armpit, and that as long as it is washed away every 24 hours, this will continue to be true.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

isn't this a steve jobs thing? didn't he only eat vegatables or something?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This is just not factual. Maybe if you were planning to sit in front of a fan all day, you'll be okay. But if you move or get hot at all, you're going to sweat and it's going to stink without deodorant

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yeah. This is not true . So many smelly hippies in my city

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Okay, what you are doing is detecting body odor on others and assuming that it is due solely to lack of use of a deodorant or anti-perspirant, and that is not a valid assumption.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's as unnecessary as a toothpaste and brush, you can be fine with miswak lol. Antiperspirants makes life easier. Why anyone wouldn't want to be dry and odor-free all day?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Lol, OP has a whif kink.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I guess I'm not most people. My mom made all of my siblings start wearing deodorant when she could smell us lol so I guess we're effectively "brainwashed"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Nah with the crap they put in our food and the material that's used in clothing these days, people 100% stink when they don't wear deodorant. But people have used deodorizers of all kinds throughout history like perfumes and scented oils. I'm sure the first person to make a perfume made it because everybody was funky.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Well I'm part of the large Asian percentage that has little to no body odor

by Anonymous 1 year ago

As am I. Everyone else in my family stinks if they don't use deodorant though.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Everyone who says they don't smell- & for some reason people like to talk about it- do smell. I'm sure there may be variations based on ethnic background, diet, body hair etc but I have worked in a large office building of a company that had a large Asian number of employees and I'll just say I appreciated the colleagues who wore antiperspirant and the odor issue was not limited to any particular race.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

If you live in the tropics and don't put on your BO basher you'll be one dank individual by 9am.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's not unnecessary for me. I wear it everyday. You are welcome!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Middle Eastern people agree

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You have never woken up in a room full of teenage boys, as one myself i can confirm deodrant is necessary

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You definitely do not work in a field that requires physical labor. People do smellllllllll.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I stink. Wildly. Different people have different genes that actually effect this though. I got the stinky gene and the "we will keep you plump through the winter so the English don't get ya lasse" gene.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I don't wear deodorant unless I know I'll be somewhere hot for a long period of time

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I have to agree. I had a friend who told me he never used deodorant or antiperspirant. I had been sitting right next to him for *weeks*, in a small classroom. He also worked a very physical, manual-labor job before coming to class. I still never could smell him. He did say, though, that he uses surgical soap. That was his secret.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Thank you.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Musty ass 🤢

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Tell me you've never been to an anime convention without telling me you've never been to an anime convention.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yet another "unpopular" opinion that is just flat out wrong.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think you meant to put the quotation marks around "opinion", not "unpopular". Prove it's wrong. You might say I can't prove I'm right, but if you can't prove I'm wrong, we're even.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

🤢😷

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I use rubbing alcohol as a deodorant

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I used to not need it and now that I'm older I do, it just depends on how much you sweat

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Anybody else only have one armpit that stanks? My left never needs deodorant, the right tho...

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That's because they're on

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I'd like to invite OP to sit in a room of 30 forth or fifth graders after PE…

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Oh come on. If you are seriously arguing that fourth and fifth graders, the vast majority of whom have not yet entered puberty, give off body odor after PE, and by implication should be using anti-perspirant, you have NO credibility and you couldn't say anything that would more convince me that you're brainwashed.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think you haven't been around many fifth graders… they stink!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Go to an anime convention. You'll change your mind within 10 minutes of being there

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Nooooo.... When i recall summer time in public places.... noooooo....

by Anonymous 1 year ago