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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] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't use deodorant because they all use aluminum salts, and I'm allergic to aluminum.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's not a good reason though. There are plenty without aluminum. Toms and Native are two I know of without searching. Also it easy and cheap to make homemade with coconut oil.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I have this same allergy, and arm & hammer naturals also makes good deodorant without aluminum salts. Agreed, not a great excuse not put some on

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Antiperspirants use aluminum. Standard deodorant does not.