PSA: deodorants don’t do shit if you don’t shower before applying. If anything, it might make the smell worse.
Second PSA: Deodorants never do shit, use an antiperspirant.
Just a warning though. Aluminum antiperspirants can cause skin irritation and absolutely cause aluminum salt stains on clothes (bright yellow pits on white shirts).
Also there is a correlation link between aluminum levels and Alzheimer’s, but nobody had proved causation so it may be an unrelated coincidence.
Easier just to shower, scrub well, and use deoderant. That is usually enough for the average person, just not heavy sweating people or people in very hot environments.
PSA: Also wash your clothes (without fabric softener) and stop buying polyester. Much of the “BO stink” is from sweating in polyester clothes and not washing them for a few more wears. Plastic doesn’t absorb and dry out the bacteria so it is much much worse than cotton, linen, or wool. Also use vinegar as fabric softener, it doesn’t smell after the final rinse cycle and it doesn’t leave a waxy film on your clothes that keeps the bacteria nice and comfortable like formula softener.
Aluminium antiperspirant stains are actually pretty easy to remove if you soak your shirts in something acidic - I use sulphamic acid (commonly sold as the main ingredient in coffee machine descaler, so pretty safe, and not as smelly as vinegar) and just leave things for a day, then any residue that’s left just comes out in the wash. The reason it stains is that long-acting antiperspirant seals the aluminium salts in tiny wax beads which break open over the course of the day to keep releasing more, and wax needs a lot of exposure to soapy water to dissolve, but it’s protected by the aluminium salts jellifying when wet, and they in turn are protected from rinsing away by the surrounding wax. Acids can attack both.
Can‘t disagree more. You just need to buy a proper one and not Axe or similar deos that smells like ass. The deocream from Greendoor works like a wonder and is not an anti-transpirant, and I sweat a crazy amount.
I know people who think this, and they need an antiperspirant.
Counterpoint, aluminum is bad for you, anti-persperaint is hard to clean off your body and cloths, humans are allowed to smell a little. As long as you’re not smelling like a highschool gym and shower regularly and after exercise, a light application of deodorant should be plenty for the majority of adults.
I stopped wearing deodorant a few years ago. Clean clothes and showering. I do get funky after being soaked in sweat for hours so maybe if I worked in a kitchen right next to people that’d be a different story
God no!
I’m smell sensitive and work for an international company with a lot of South-Europeans running around.
No additional deodorant or aftershave! Please!
People most often smell like they’ve put a pine forest through a blender and took a bath in it and in worst cases it lingers 15min after they’re gone. I’d rather smell BO.
And they seem to think it covers up the smell of cigarettes.
It never does, you’re right.
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deodorant without any smell exist.
Exactly that. I hate the artificial stink with a passion.
Oh yes.
One drop is enough. No need to take a bath in it!
I’m so glad I work in a scent-free building honestly. Does it sometimes smell like my boss’s running shoes? Sure a little, but I never spend the entire day coughing and with a headache from some asshole’s cologne.
Her colleague has a book titled: “should I tell my coworker they wear their earphones wrong or just resign?”
There are earphones that do sit like this though. Shoks, for one, but I’m sure there’s other brands that do the same.
Nope, still wrong :)
Even more awkward if you work from home
ugh i tell my WFH coworker not to wear deodorant because I’m nayyysty bish
I have a coworker who resides in the cubicle diagonal from mine. I can usually tell whether or not he’s there when I can smell his breath.
Could you have a fan that sends the smell somewhere else. Does not need to be powerfull, just enough to send the smell away. Or do you actually enjoy it or use it to know when to talk about said coworker?
b.j. nomnom 😆
And her shirt is NOMNOM
And her earbuds are garden hoses.
Almost as if this was a marketing campaign.
Do they have one for not sipping your loud ass water bottle every five SECONDS LIKE WE ARE IN THE SAHARA
I had to tell a co-worker " can you start rocking some deodorant"
A reddit suggestion was “n***a you smell like hot dog water”
I can’t say anything about the smell, but her q-tips are too large.
best smelling book for personal hygiene
Pro tip: Work at home
Unfortunately that’s where the stink is
Maybe take out your earphones and talk to them first.
That’s cool and a smart idea. 💡
Please just tell them. There’s a good chance they don’t know and everyone’s too nice to say anything. Imo, it’s way more kind to tell someone privately than to not tell them at all
Idk. Had a guy I worked with years back that just would not shower or use deodorant. Like if you saw the guy about to take the same elevator as you, you slowed down and took a different elevator. Dude also wore those vibram foot shoes so you smelled his feet too. I think HR had to finally talk to him about it after enough people complained.
Did it change after HR talked to him? That would seem to strengthen my point
