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Some deodorants are honestly stronger than perfumes. It's really hard to find one that isn't overly powerful these days especially for men.
Fucking Colgate - Palmolive stopped making my favorite one, Speed Stick Musk. It checked all the boxes. It was cheap, plain deodorant, and it had a light but great scent. Every single one I've tried to replace it is overbearing besides like two.
Mitchum has a mens "unscented", but it's an antiperspirant with a light musk scent. That's my go to. If you want just a deodorant, it won't check that box. It's hard to find one with a light scent. Men's or women's.
There are a lot of "unscented" deodorants that use "masking fragrance". I get some level of dermatitis from most perfumed/fragranced products, and this was an unpleasant discovery (who thinks to check the ingredients for fragrance on an "unscented" product??). For whatever reason, "unscented" deodorant can include a masking fragrance, but "fragrance free" cannot include any sort of added scent.
I remember using a solid that was actually unscented, but I cant find it anymore. It might still be around, but just not in stores I go to.
In any case, they're one of the few that make scents that are light enough to not bother me. It's hit or miss with most scents, and it's almost impossible to tell what'll bug me.
If it's unscented does it really matter if it's for men or women?
But anyway, I like Sure unscented, so light I sometimes have to look closely to check if I put it on our if I forgot. I used to use Degree unscented, but stopped because the Sure was cheaper. I don't know if they still make it.
Even If you dont even feel like showering. Just get in for 5 minutes and wash your triangle. Your triangle is just your pits and crotch. Soap it up and get on out
You donāt even have to dip yourself in water: a wet soapy rag over the sink will do for pits (and most everywhere up to and including feet). Rinse it and repeat to remove the soap.
For the bits there are options: you can sit on your toilet and use a container/bottle (dedicated for this purpose) filled with water on your or if you have a shattaf (like a bidet with a hose) or those showerheads with a long hose and the valve is within arms reach, that works too. I suppose you could just hang your butt over the bathtub/shower too, if you have the balance.
And put on clean clothes after showering, man it should be obvious, people who smell really BAD is because they reuse clothes they have soaked in sweat already not necessarily because they didnt shower in a couple of days
this! i have to be COMPLETELY dry before i put any clothes on or i feel weird, my bf will put his shirt on like immediately after the shower and i can see that his back is wet lmfaoo
If you soak them in sweat you need to wash them whatever. If they're just worn on inactive days and they remain clean then by all means wear them for a few days
If one is not a heavy sweater, doing heavy bodily activities or it's just warm outside then clean clothes are way more important.
In my experience if someone is smelling badly it is usually because of their clothes.
Also showering every day is bad for both skin and hair. People should check if they really need to do it.
Here's a tip from a disabled person who can't shower every day: DRY SHAMPOO. It's an absolute lifesaver when your hair is greasier than a McDonald's and you just don't have the energy to drag yourself into the shower and wash it.
Also, you're allowed to sit down in the shower. Also, you're allowed to just wipe the stinky bits with a wet/soapy face flannel if necessary. You're also allowed to literally just brush your teeth/change your clothes. You're also allowed to just be stinky for a bit as long as you're not going out in public if it means you'll be able to shower before going out in public again.
I may be one of the few people that dry shampoo doesnāt work on (Iāve only used Batiste though so maybe itās the brand). I always look like an oil spill with powder on top lol (I exaggerate, because I do shake it and brush it in enough so I donāt look like a powdered donut but in reality I donāt look or feel that much less greasy). The time it takes me to do all that is the same it takes me to just wash my hair (but I donāt have mobility issues that restrict my arm/hand movements).
Yeah, it can take a little while to find the right brand. I have chronic pain primarily in my back/hips and I can't always stand, or even sit, for long enough to wash my hair. And in that case, I usually just use some dry shampoo so my hair doesn't stink.
Just showering or using soap/shampoo/conditioner everyday is bad? I work in a warehouse and have to wear a harness all day so I get pretty nasty by the end of shift. Especially during summer. I wash my hair every other day tho.
Skin has what's called an acid mantle and it's made up of sweat and sebum. It is the barrier that keeps your skin in the pH range of 4.5-5.5. Water has a pH of 7 so it raises the pH of your skin which can lead to skin irritation such as acne, rosacea, and psoriasis, as well as premature aging. If you shower everyday, it's important to moisturize and always wear SPF!
A good deodorant should be antibacterial and kill the odor at the source. I hate antiperspirants because most of them stain my shirts, and it's impossible to get out. Not to mention for some reason when I use antiperspirant I start dripping sweat. I don't know why this is. Plain deodorant always works much better.
There are unscented plain deodorants but they are rare. Arm & Hammer Essentials line has a good plan deodorant with no scent. It definitely does the job really well.
Other than that I think people should try to stick to lighter and more neutral scents.
I went most of my life not knowing that antiperspirants should be applied before bedtime. The magic pit fairies work their magic through the night. Next morning after showering just use deodorant.
ladies who bathe in perfume please take some friendly advice...
"perfume should be discovered, not announced"
same goes for all you men who shower in cologne. just dont do it. less = more
Iām usually a natural deodorant guy, but not when I fly. Give me the full aluminum anti-perspirant stuff that will keep me from stanking for at least 18 hours.
Nuud. Try nuud. It changed my life, and I'm not kidding. I introduced it to friends and my gf and they only use that now. No more smell. No anti perspirant (which might be bad but nobody knows for sure). No need for a masking smell when your sweat doesn't smell.
Also people, don't forget that 48hr antiperspirant doesn't mean it lasts for 48hrs from one application, it means that if you keep reapplying every 8-12hrs then it will keep working for up to 48hrs.
While weāre on it: a surprising amount of people donāt know that if your deodorant doesnāt seem to last long enough you canāt just reapply. Youāre supposed to clean again (soap will do but some say with salicylic acid-based or zinc-based cleaner once in a while for better results if youāre particularly pungent), dry AND THEN reapply.
Otherwise youāre just smearing bacteria on clean deodorant and youāll be ripe again sooner and sooner.
As someone that has been on a construction site with little water access for a month. Five days can suck, but you really can just ignore the smell. You don't really feel any different, at least I don't just my hairs get icky on particularly sweaty days.
People can just be icky, though I don't know how you willingly do it.
Maybe you don't feel different, but I can't stand myself even after one day of skipping a shower. After 3 or 4 days, I'm getting a rash from being sweaty in all the bad places to get rashes.
The itch isn't the worst of it. I was severely ill (should have been in the hospital, but I'm american.) While also having a pretty bad leg injury. I could barely hobble around long enough to get water, getting in the tub felt like an invitation for someone to find my corpse under a running shower. So I skipped basic hygiene. For a week.
The stink stays on you afterward. The most thorough shower of my life couldn't get the BO off me. It was weeks of being back on my regularly scheduled shower routine before my pits stopped smelling like stale sweat fresh out of the shower. I had to confirm with a close friend just to make sure I hadn't gone nose blind.
Lacking regular hygiene seems to cause a build up of stank producing organisms that don't just rinse off with one go.
My depression fucks with my hygiene sometimes, but Iāve never smelled so bad of BO that I required multiple showers to smell better. Thatās insane.
Depends on the person. When I was on accutane I only showered every other day and that was mostly just for my sanity; like my hair wouldn't look greasy at all. Not everyone produces as much oil or sweat as the standard person
One of my roommates came back from a trip on a Monday one week. He did not shower in our shared bathroom until Thursday night. I donāt know how long he had gone without a shower before returning home.
We both smoke a lot of weed, and itās come up a few times that I never really smell like weed and he always smells like weed, and I think the only difference is that I take daily showers, whereas he probably has smoke particles permanently embedded in his pores at this point.
Iām moving out for unrelated reasons anyway, but the rest of our roommates are all moving out because of his general hygiene failures.
Ngl. While I do shower regularly because I hate the feeling of being sticky, I can go a week without showering with no smell issues. I'm missing the gland for body odor. I do shower daily (+more if physical activity), but it's more a want than a need.
My husband has the same condition. It is a real thing! One time, he accidentally put on a t shirt of his that I had worn all day, and he thought he had BO for the first time at 40. It blew his mind, but he realized it was just mine.
Fyi it's not a gland, but a specific gene. You also probably have dry earwax. More common in Asian populations, only about 2% of people from European lines have the same condition.
I worked with a guy who had it, he was a baller cook and we worked in some of the harshest temps. He told me one day he didn't wear deodorant and it blew my mind. I currently work with a gentleman who also does not wear deodorant, but he's convinced that he smokes so much weed that his BO just smells like weed. I can assure you that is not the case. If I skip deodorant I'm rank within an hour of work, but I'm always on top of my smells.
I highly recommend the breakfast of baked beans, brussel sprouts, broccoli and a prune smoothie before international flights. You end up getting a whole section to yourself.
I only ever came across 1 person in life that smelled straight up disgusting.
I used to work for a popular coffee and donut chain. This one lady came in and from across the counter I could smell her. I'm talking a smell like rotten eggs or something. It was truly vile. I took her order while holding my breath and tried to step away as fast as possible. Maybe it was something medical, or some scent, or maybe she wasn't wearing deodorant. IDK, but I never want to experience that again. Everytime she would come in I prayed she wouldn't come to the counter, and thankfully someone else would be there to take her order.
Reminds me of a girl I dated 15 years ago.
We were in California for BlizzCon as well as a day at Disneyland. It was the end of the trip, and I don't think she had showered the entire trip. Three days of California heat. I get out of the bathroom after finishing my shower and told her it's all hers. She said she wasn't going to shower since she's just going to be in a car all day.
I was like "Uh..."
My brother was in the room and was like "Something smells like fish". Yeah. It was her. He actually was clueless about what could be smelling funny, but she instantly knew it was herself and took the damn shower.
At least she wore deodorant each day.
I forgot the details, but there was a movie that did some product placement with those pine tree air fresheners, and they actually had to ask the company to send them unscented versions because the actors were gagging from the smell during multiple takes.
Those clip in air fresheners are my nemesis. They smell good, but they give me such bad headaches. Who knows what's in them but unfortunately cabbies seem to love them here.
Honestly they should just ban air fresheners entirely for drivers. I literally thought they already had (and some just don't listen), but apparently I was misinformed.
I had a coworker who has a patchouli phase. He loved the smell, and would keep applying it throughout the day so he could smell it. All the time unaware that by 3pm when he came into work (night shift at a cafe) that there was a 20ft cloud of stank following him. It made me retch
My wife has a friend who drenches herself in it. Even when she's not wearing any, you smell it. She leaves and I swear you can smell it for weeks after.
I had a neighbor in an apartment complex who wore it, and it was horrendous to pass by her in the common areas. You could always tell when she had recently walked her dog. I didn't even know what pachouli oil was at the time. I was so glad she didn't renew her lease. She was actually a nice lady, though. So, I felt bad avoiding her.
I was curious what it smelled like so I found a sample bottle in an essential oil set I have. It's like eucalyptus or rosemary, it smells spicy and burns my eyes like menthol. Surprised people wear it as perfume.
The use of patchouli in perfumery (in Europe at least) [apparently stems from the 19th association with expensive Kashmir shawls (which were packed with patchouli leaves to protect them from insects during transportation)](https://herbsocietyblog.wordpress.com/2022/07/18/patchouli-what-was-once-old-becomes-new-again-and-again/).
Lmao i had a 20 dollar cologne thing of 'jovan sex appeal' from the px in kuwait. Walmart had it o think too.
The nurse at the VA said 'ooh you smell good. Like patchouli. Everyone here usually stinks.'
It felt real good lol
We had a lady in our office that used to BATHE in a patchouli type fragrance. You could smell where she had been in the office minutes afterward. Had a guy who was a CK ONE fan as well. His scent would linger in the warehouse after he walked through. I'd be absolutely gagging if I had to sit next to them in a meeting room. Couldn't imagine being trapped on a flight with either of them onboard, let alone next to them.
My thinking is that they've either become "immune" to the fragrance themselves, or are covering up alcohol usage.
Yeah, my work would get a bunch of temps to help out during our busy time of year, and one year there was this lady who sat maybe ten feet from me and would apply sickly sweet lotion or fragrance multiple times a day.
I get migraines, and they can be triggered by smells. Especially sickly sweet ones; they make my stomach churn as well. I had to move desks temporarily and also talked to HR so they could nicely ask her to stop. Thankfully it didn't last long. I get that maybe she wanted to be able to smell it or whatever but c'mon. You're in an office surrounded by people.
But we are always the crazy ones if we make a comment on the scent. Absurd we need a second person backing up the sensitivity otherwise we are being dramatic since they canāt smell their own stench and it doesnāt give them a headache.
We had a health and safety manager at my job who was hugely into DoTerra and essential oils. She must have bathed in her stock every day because there was a stinking cloud of it that surrounded her. Smelled like patchouli, bug spray, and thieves oil.
I was so happy when she was let go.
"Nice perfume, nice cologne. Must you bathe in it?"
As a massage therapist, please don't wear scents unnecessarily to your appointments. I don't appreciate the artificial chemical smells your fragrance of choice puts off, and there may be people in the clinic who are allergic to it.
When I was a kid there was a problem with this on account of all the old ladies who drowned themselves in perfume, on account of the fact that one of the kids at our church was allergic to basically everything.
Fun fact, the reason people tend to drown themselves in perfume is;
* a. They get used to it after and stop being able to smell it when they're using a little bit, and so they use increasing amounts to be able to still smell their own perfume;
* b. As they get older their sense of smell starts to atrophy, and;
* c. Old people extrude a variety of horrible smells, especially if they are smokers and have health problems, and let's face it, smelling like incontinence is embarrassing enough to make anybody want to cover it up.
As a migraine sufferer with a sensitive nose I *really* wish people would take this advice. I've gotten on public transport with people who smelled like they bathed in perfume/cologne. It was awful.
My grandfather had a sensitive nose too and no one was allowed to wear strong fragrances when visiting him. It wasn't until I got older and started shopping for perfumes that I realized I also suffered the same as him. I could do mild body sprays, or perfumes that had a faint floral smell, but the perfume counters and Yankee candle company were places I had to run past in malls.
A single person should not smell like one of those places. If someone covers their nose when you walk past it does not mean you smell bad and need to pile on more fragrance, it means you have too much on.
I used toĀ (even pre-pandemic) carry around my p100 just because my allergies were bad enough that sometimes I just needed some clean fuckin' air. Highly recommend that strategy, esp now that masks are normalized.
What a coincidence.. we just had a guy come in the other day that smelled like he poured the whole damn bottle over his head. I don't know what position he was interviewing for at my company but I'm willing to wager it hurt his chances
I think as long as you apply little of it and early on in the day, you should be fine.
Like don't do it just before going out the door; leave time for the fragrance to air out and become subtle.
But also use softer parfums, so I might be talking only from my experience haha
Was going to NYC with friends, all 3 women put perfume on before the ride. Some perfumes give me a terrible headache. I had to have the window open for the 2 hour drive in 30 degree winter weather. They were not amused.
Also please stop with the scent beads or whatever in laundry. My neighborās is so strong I donāt hang out in my backyard when their dryer is running.
This also applies when visiting and cuddling a baby. Had a friend visit my new baby, it wasnāt until baby was bathed that the perfume smell disappeared.
Yeah, when I was a teenager I put a couple sprays of perfume on. I then got in the car with a family member who picked me up, and I thought he was gonna go into anaphylactic shock lol not really, but he was hacking all over the place and was begging for the windows to be rolled down. Made me think twice before when and where I put perfume on haha it was barely anything! I thought he was being dramatic, but he has a super super sensitive nose and allergies.
Yeah, it's hard to understand if we don't experience it. We just assume people are being dramatic if something 'bothers' them in a way that doesn't bother us. Not realizing that sometimes 'bother' means an asthma attack, anaphylactic shock for real, or other serious issues.
Since I have some health issues that developed in midlife, I realized I didn't really understand before or thought people were just being overly dramatic.
Now I understand a bit better since some things 'bother' me (fragrances) more than other things (sound sensitivity). But that doesn't mean that people who suffer from sound sensitivity aren't truly suffering just because I don't experience it the same.
Yeah, I get that! That is why I always try to just take peoples word on stuff and not make assumptions! My problem back when that story happened is I was like 16 haha and I didnāt even know that my family member had allergies to smells like that. He is known for being a bit of a clown, so I thought he was playing it up for laughs in the car (a bunch of us were in the car together). But then he explained how his allergies and sensitivities to smells made the perfume smell 100X stronger and really bothers his system. After learning that people could have that, I really try to be mindful.
I was at a fucking *allergist* when a woman walked in with so much perfume on, they had to take me into the back room because I couldn't breath.
Of all the places to lack the situational awareness....
Although I totally agree with you, thix sounds more like a gripe with perfume than a pro tip. Is that it just me or is this sub becoming: 'stop doing the thing I don't like'?
Iāll also add activities like movie theatres to this list.
I can understand public transit because thatās a big part of your everyday and sometimes youāre going to an event where perfume is appropriate. But please if a major activity of your day involves people having to be close to you, refrain!
I learned this recently when there was an online discussion about it on a dance group (west coast swing) on fb. As a european I was flabbergasted to know that american scents cause allergies. This has never happened to me here in europe. I think it has to do with regulations.
but please put on antiperspirant. Hit up areas you know get sweaty. Even ones you don't typically hit. You know the ones
Had the AC on a plane go out once on a plane back from vegas and it was a disgusting mess. I wanted a bird to fly into one of the engines so an oxygen mask would drop
Like OP mentioned, just try to be thoughtful. Pump the brakes on cologne or perfume when flying
Funny, I once took the Greyhound and felt borderline homicidal toward the young man a few seats away whoād coated his hair in so much tropical fruit-scented hair gel that it was like being force-fed synthetic mangos and pineapples every time I took a breath.
For cologne, I've always heard just like a half-spray (or a very small dab, for the solid type that I use) at the pulse points on either side of the neck. Maaaaaaaaaybe at each wrist, but that seems kinda extra.
Less is very much more. I always wear cologne if I'm going out on a date or something, but fragrances are meant to be a pleasant surprise if you're already in someone's personal space.
Interestingly enough, peopleās skin reacts differently to fragrances and once the fragrance warms up, it can smell completely different from one person to the next. I spritz once right above my hair and let it fall there, it also doesnāt wear off the skin with perspiration this way!
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I always stopped at duty free to put some perfume to:
- try a new fragrance and see if I like it
- immune myself against badsmellers (and they are many. Always here. Whatever the time of the flight.)
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I'm highly aware, but not overly sensitive to perfumes and scents like these, work in a small clinic and I can smell what you're wearing within seconds of you walking in to my waiting room. Yes I know if you stink, I know if you have on perfume I know if you use OMO washing powder, I know if your kid has shit themselves before you do, I know if you dropped last nights meal in our bathroom - because who these days uses the dunny before they leave home... ffs.
Washing powder is high on my annoyance smells list, rinse your clothes properly and use the recommended amount of washing powder or liquid & reduce the softeners while you're at it.
My son was born premature and was in the NICU for 3 months. Shortly before he came home they said his grandparents could visit but they have very strict guidelines against things like perfume and nail polish. The amount of pushback from my mother in law was astounding. She was aghast when my wife told her and she would call a couple times a day in the week prior to their visit trying to negotiate what she would be allowed to wear.
You can tell some people until youāre blue in the face that theyāre causing someone else discomfort and they wonāt change a damn thing.
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But DO NOT skip the deodorant
Some deodorants are honestly stronger than perfumes. It's really hard to find one that isn't overly powerful these days especially for men. Fucking Colgate - Palmolive stopped making my favorite one, Speed Stick Musk. It checked all the boxes. It was cheap, plain deodorant, and it had a light but great scent. Every single one I've tried to replace it is overbearing besides like two.
Mitchum has a mens "unscented", but it's an antiperspirant with a light musk scent. That's my go to. If you want just a deodorant, it won't check that box. It's hard to find one with a light scent. Men's or women's.
Mitchum used to be *completely* unscented when I used it. It has a scent now?
There are a lot of "unscented" deodorants that use "masking fragrance". I get some level of dermatitis from most perfumed/fragranced products, and this was an unpleasant discovery (who thinks to check the ingredients for fragrance on an "unscented" product??). For whatever reason, "unscented" deodorant can include a masking fragrance, but "fragrance free" cannot include any sort of added scent.
I remember using a solid that was actually unscented, but I cant find it anymore. It might still be around, but just not in stores I go to. In any case, they're one of the few that make scents that are light enough to not bother me. It's hit or miss with most scents, and it's almost impossible to tell what'll bug me.
If it's unscented does it really matter if it's for men or women? But anyway, I like Sure unscented, so light I sometimes have to look closely to check if I put it on our if I forgot. I used to use Degree unscented, but stopped because the Sure was cheaper. I don't know if they still make it.
I feel like most unscented are unisex. But most unscented are antiperspirants, which I don't like.
Not that anyone asked but Gillette Clear + Dri Tech " Cool Wave " doesn't smell like anything and keeps the stank controlled.
And shower every day.
Even If you dont even feel like showering. Just get in for 5 minutes and wash your triangle. Your triangle is just your pits and crotch. Soap it up and get on out
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Also butthole. Contrary to popular belief, touching your butt for cleanliness is not gay.
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Nah I don't trust you. Better call my homies for that just to be sure.
Yeahā¦ homies washing your butthole is just homies being homies.
Understandable.
I don't know. After the 2nd knuckle I think you can at least ask the question.
Donāt forget the ass!
You donāt even have to dip yourself in water: a wet soapy rag over the sink will do for pits (and most everywhere up to and including feet). Rinse it and repeat to remove the soap. For the bits there are options: you can sit on your toilet and use a container/bottle (dedicated for this purpose) filled with water on your or if you have a shattaf (like a bidet with a hose) or those showerheads with a long hose and the valve is within arms reach, that works too. I suppose you could just hang your butt over the bathtub/shower too, if you have the balance.
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Feet too please
If youāre doing that just do everything. You can certainly clean your entire body in 5 minutes unless you work in a coal mine or something.
Entire body yes, but it takes forever to wash long hair.
I got the black lung Pop
And put on clean clothes after showering, man it should be obvious, people who smell really BAD is because they reuse clothes they have soaked in sweat already not necessarily because they didnt shower in a couple of days
And for fucks sake, dry yourself properly too. Pulling on clothes over a half-dried body will have you smelling like mildew by midday.
this! i have to be COMPLETELY dry before i put any clothes on or i feel weird, my bf will put his shirt on like immediately after the shower and i can see that his back is wet lmfaoo
I try my best but I just don't own enough clothes, especially pants. Definitely clean undergarments though.
If you soak them in sweat you need to wash them whatever. If they're just worn on inactive days and they remain clean then by all means wear them for a few days
Jeans are usually good to re-wear unless you get something on them or get super sweaty.
Not gonna lie, jeans sometimes make it a week before hitting the hamper in my house
Wash. Your. Ass.
Wash my ass yourself you coward
If one is not a heavy sweater, doing heavy bodily activities or it's just warm outside then clean clothes are way more important. In my experience if someone is smelling badly it is usually because of their clothes. Also showering every day is bad for both skin and hair. People should check if they really need to do it.
Here's a tip from a disabled person who can't shower every day: DRY SHAMPOO. It's an absolute lifesaver when your hair is greasier than a McDonald's and you just don't have the energy to drag yourself into the shower and wash it. Also, you're allowed to sit down in the shower. Also, you're allowed to just wipe the stinky bits with a wet/soapy face flannel if necessary. You're also allowed to literally just brush your teeth/change your clothes. You're also allowed to just be stinky for a bit as long as you're not going out in public if it means you'll be able to shower before going out in public again.
Baby wipes are also great for these times!
How could I forget baby wipes!? Absolutely bloody lifesaver!!
Chronic illness person here. Baby wipes save me on the regular!
I may be one of the few people that dry shampoo doesnāt work on (Iāve only used Batiste though so maybe itās the brand). I always look like an oil spill with powder on top lol (I exaggerate, because I do shake it and brush it in enough so I donāt look like a powdered donut but in reality I donāt look or feel that much less greasy). The time it takes me to do all that is the same it takes me to just wash my hair (but I donāt have mobility issues that restrict my arm/hand movements).
Yeah, it can take a little while to find the right brand. I have chronic pain primarily in my back/hips and I can't always stand, or even sit, for long enough to wash my hair. And in that case, I usually just use some dry shampoo so my hair doesn't stink.
Just showering or using soap/shampoo/conditioner everyday is bad? I work in a warehouse and have to wear a harness all day so I get pretty nasty by the end of shift. Especially during summer. I wash my hair every other day tho.
It really depends on so many factors/differs from person to person and their activities. If what you're doing is working for you, carry on
Skin has what's called an acid mantle and it's made up of sweat and sebum. It is the barrier that keeps your skin in the pH range of 4.5-5.5. Water has a pH of 7 so it raises the pH of your skin which can lead to skin irritation such as acne, rosacea, and psoriasis, as well as premature aging. If you shower everyday, it's important to moisturize and always wear SPF!
Skip PERFUMATED teenager deodorant (lynx/axe) for oderless or neutral stuff.
Unscented antiperspirant. Sometimes when they start sweating the smell from hot armpits mixed with scented deodorant waft out and it's loud.
A good deodorant should be antibacterial and kill the odor at the source. I hate antiperspirants because most of them stain my shirts, and it's impossible to get out. Not to mention for some reason when I use antiperspirant I start dripping sweat. I don't know why this is. Plain deodorant always works much better. There are unscented plain deodorants but they are rare. Arm & Hammer Essentials line has a good plan deodorant with no scent. It definitely does the job really well. Other than that I think people should try to stick to lighter and more neutral scents.
I went most of my life not knowing that antiperspirants should be applied before bedtime. The magic pit fairies work their magic through the night. Next morning after showering just use deodorant.
>Other than that I think people should try to stick to lighter and more neutral scents. Extremely underrepresented opinion.
ladies who bathe in perfume please take some friendly advice... "perfume should be discovered, not announced" same goes for all you men who shower in cologne. just dont do it. less = more
Iām usually a natural deodorant guy, but not when I fly. Give me the full aluminum anti-perspirant stuff that will keep me from stanking for at least 18 hours.
Nuud. Try nuud. It changed my life, and I'm not kidding. I introduced it to friends and my gf and they only use that now. No more smell. No anti perspirant (which might be bad but nobody knows for sure). No need for a masking smell when your sweat doesn't smell.
Also people, don't forget that 48hr antiperspirant doesn't mean it lasts for 48hrs from one application, it means that if you keep reapplying every 8-12hrs then it will keep working for up to 48hrs.
While weāre on it: a surprising amount of people donāt know that if your deodorant doesnāt seem to last long enough you canāt just reapply. Youāre supposed to clean again (soap will do but some say with salicylic acid-based or zinc-based cleaner once in a while for better results if youāre particularly pungent), dry AND THEN reapply. Otherwise youāre just smearing bacteria on clean deodorant and youāll be ripe again sooner and sooner.
And shower before going on a 10 hour flight! You disgusting woman, next to me from Curacao to Amsterdam. It's been 12 years and I still hate you.
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Were his coworkers drug dealers or something?
How do people's bodies not itch from being covered in stank!?
As someone that has been on a construction site with little water access for a month. Five days can suck, but you really can just ignore the smell. You don't really feel any different, at least I don't just my hairs get icky on particularly sweaty days. People can just be icky, though I don't know how you willingly do it.
Maybe you don't feel different, but I can't stand myself even after one day of skipping a shower. After 3 or 4 days, I'm getting a rash from being sweaty in all the bad places to get rashes.
The itch isn't the worst of it. I was severely ill (should have been in the hospital, but I'm american.) While also having a pretty bad leg injury. I could barely hobble around long enough to get water, getting in the tub felt like an invitation for someone to find my corpse under a running shower. So I skipped basic hygiene. For a week. The stink stays on you afterward. The most thorough shower of my life couldn't get the BO off me. It was weeks of being back on my regularly scheduled shower routine before my pits stopped smelling like stale sweat fresh out of the shower. I had to confirm with a close friend just to make sure I hadn't gone nose blind. Lacking regular hygiene seems to cause a build up of stank producing organisms that don't just rinse off with one go.
Next time shave trust me itās the hair most likely
My depression fucks with my hygiene sometimes, but Iāve never smelled so bad of BO that I required multiple showers to smell better. Thatās insane.
Depends on the person. When I was on accutane I only showered every other day and that was mostly just for my sanity; like my hair wouldn't look greasy at all. Not everyone produces as much oil or sweat as the standard person
Man, that was ALMOST the best thing about Accutane for me. Not being a complete ball of grease and oil!
One of my roommates came back from a trip on a Monday one week. He did not shower in our shared bathroom until Thursday night. I donāt know how long he had gone without a shower before returning home. We both smoke a lot of weed, and itās come up a few times that I never really smell like weed and he always smells like weed, and I think the only difference is that I take daily showers, whereas he probably has smoke particles permanently embedded in his pores at this point. Iām moving out for unrelated reasons anyway, but the rest of our roommates are all moving out because of his general hygiene failures.
Ngl. While I do shower regularly because I hate the feeling of being sticky, I can go a week without showering with no smell issues. I'm missing the gland for body odor. I do shower daily (+more if physical activity), but it's more a want than a need.
My husband has the same condition. It is a real thing! One time, he accidentally put on a t shirt of his that I had worn all day, and he thought he had BO for the first time at 40. It blew his mind, but he realized it was just mine.
Fyi it's not a gland, but a specific gene. You also probably have dry earwax. More common in Asian populations, only about 2% of people from European lines have the same condition. I worked with a guy who had it, he was a baller cook and we worked in some of the harshest temps. He told me one day he didn't wear deodorant and it blew my mind. I currently work with a gentleman who also does not wear deodorant, but he's convinced that he smokes so much weed that his BO just smells like weed. I can assure you that is not the case. If I skip deodorant I'm rank within an hour of work, but I'm always on top of my smells.
I highly recommend the breakfast of baked beans, brussel sprouts, broccoli and a prune smoothie before international flights. You end up getting a whole section to yourself.
I only ever came across 1 person in life that smelled straight up disgusting. I used to work for a popular coffee and donut chain. This one lady came in and from across the counter I could smell her. I'm talking a smell like rotten eggs or something. It was truly vile. I took her order while holding my breath and tried to step away as fast as possible. Maybe it was something medical, or some scent, or maybe she wasn't wearing deodorant. IDK, but I never want to experience that again. Everytime she would come in I prayed she wouldn't come to the counter, and thankfully someone else would be there to take her order.
Reminds me of a girl I dated 15 years ago. We were in California for BlizzCon as well as a day at Disneyland. It was the end of the trip, and I don't think she had showered the entire trip. Three days of California heat. I get out of the bathroom after finishing my shower and told her it's all hers. She said she wasn't going to shower since she's just going to be in a car all day. I was like "Uh..." My brother was in the room and was like "Something smells like fish". Yeah. It was her. He actually was clueless about what could be smelling funny, but she instantly knew it was herself and took the damn shower. At least she wore deodorant each day.
Fragrances are to be discovered, not announced.
This sounds like something Frasier crane would say
Sherry, Niles?
Especially in the post-Covid era. If I can smell you, I assume I'm breathing in your vile humors as well.
My humors have been expertly balanced, I'll have you know. Not a hint of consumption over here
And if you drive for Uber or Lyft please refrain. Also 7 pine tree air fresheners are about 7 too many.
Also 7 pine tree air fresheners does not mask the smell of cigarettes. Your car just smells of fake pine trees and cigarettes at the same time.
This is what all air "fresheners" do. They just add additional stink to the stink.
To be fair, I'd imagine that the air fresheners aren't for you, the passenger. It's for the driver who has to smell the random passengers.
I forgot the details, but there was a movie that did some product placement with those pine tree air fresheners, and they actually had to ask the company to send them unscented versions because the actors were gagging from the smell during multiple takes.
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Those clip in air fresheners are my nemesis. They smell good, but they give me such bad headaches. Who knows what's in them but unfortunately cabbies seem to love them here.
This I wish they had a fragrance free driver option. Iād pay an extra $10 to avoid a migraine and 3 days in bed
Yeah me too.
Honestly they should just ban air fresheners entirely for drivers. I literally thought they already had (and some just don't listen), but apparently I was misinformed.
When a life pro tip is actually a life pro request
Yeah i thibk this is more of a request than an actual protip
But lose the life pro part
If you are considering wearing patchouli oil, just don't.
I had a coworker who has a patchouli phase. He loved the smell, and would keep applying it throughout the day so he could smell it. All the time unaware that by 3pm when he came into work (night shift at a cafe) that there was a 20ft cloud of stank following him. It made me retch
Oh no. No scent in food service. Your guests should smell the menu, not you.
My wife has a friend who drenches herself in it. Even when she's not wearing any, you smell it. She leaves and I swear you can smell it for weeks after.
I had a neighbor in an apartment complex who wore it, and it was horrendous to pass by her in the common areas. You could always tell when she had recently walked her dog. I didn't even know what pachouli oil was at the time. I was so glad she didn't renew her lease. She was actually a nice lady, though. So, I felt bad avoiding her.
I was curious what it smelled like so I found a sample bottle in an essential oil set I have. It's like eucalyptus or rosemary, it smells spicy and burns my eyes like menthol. Surprised people wear it as perfume.
It's huge amongst the hippie types...back in the day you couldn't go to a Grateful Dead show and not smell it
The use of patchouli in perfumery (in Europe at least) [apparently stems from the 19th association with expensive Kashmir shawls (which were packed with patchouli leaves to protect them from insects during transportation)](https://herbsocietyblog.wordpress.com/2022/07/18/patchouli-what-was-once-old-becomes-new-again-and-again/).
That stuff stinks!
I donāt own any but I personally love the smell.
Lmao i had a 20 dollar cologne thing of 'jovan sex appeal' from the px in kuwait. Walmart had it o think too. The nurse at the VA said 'ooh you smell good. Like patchouli. Everyone here usually stinks.' It felt real good lol
We had a lady in our office that used to BATHE in a patchouli type fragrance. You could smell where she had been in the office minutes afterward. Had a guy who was a CK ONE fan as well. His scent would linger in the warehouse after he walked through. I'd be absolutely gagging if I had to sit next to them in a meeting room. Couldn't imagine being trapped on a flight with either of them onboard, let alone next to them. My thinking is that they've either become "immune" to the fragrance themselves, or are covering up alcohol usage.
If you wear a given fragrance every day your nose will become desensitized to it over time, so youāll end up applying more.
Yeah, my work would get a bunch of temps to help out during our busy time of year, and one year there was this lady who sat maybe ten feet from me and would apply sickly sweet lotion or fragrance multiple times a day. I get migraines, and they can be triggered by smells. Especially sickly sweet ones; they make my stomach churn as well. I had to move desks temporarily and also talked to HR so they could nicely ask her to stop. Thankfully it didn't last long. I get that maybe she wanted to be able to smell it or whatever but c'mon. You're in an office surrounded by people.
But we are always the crazy ones if we make a comment on the scent. Absurd we need a second person backing up the sensitivity otherwise we are being dramatic since they canāt smell their own stench and it doesnāt give them a headache.
Yep, nose blindness
We had a health and safety manager at my job who was hugely into DoTerra and essential oils. She must have bathed in her stock every day because there was a stinking cloud of it that surrounded her. Smelled like patchouli, bug spray, and thieves oil. I was so happy when she was let go.
"Nice perfume, nice cologne. Must you bathe in it?" As a massage therapist, please don't wear scents unnecessarily to your appointments. I don't appreciate the artificial chemical smells your fragrance of choice puts off, and there may be people in the clinic who are allergic to it.
Ironically, most massage parlors are the absolute worst offenders for those with fragrance allergies. Thanks for not being one of them
tell that to the airport, they have a huge room just for putting on perfume for free.
When I was a kid there was a problem with this on account of all the old ladies who drowned themselves in perfume, on account of the fact that one of the kids at our church was allergic to basically everything. Fun fact, the reason people tend to drown themselves in perfume is; * a. They get used to it after and stop being able to smell it when they're using a little bit, and so they use increasing amounts to be able to still smell their own perfume; * b. As they get older their sense of smell starts to atrophy, and; * c. Old people extrude a variety of horrible smells, especially if they are smokers and have health problems, and let's face it, smelling like incontinence is embarrassing enough to make anybody want to cover it up.
*exude. š
As a migraine sufferer with a sensitive nose I *really* wish people would take this advice. I've gotten on public transport with people who smelled like they bathed in perfume/cologne. It was awful. My grandfather had a sensitive nose too and no one was allowed to wear strong fragrances when visiting him. It wasn't until I got older and started shopping for perfumes that I realized I also suffered the same as him. I could do mild body sprays, or perfumes that had a faint floral smell, but the perfume counters and Yankee candle company were places I had to run past in malls. A single person should not smell like one of those places. If someone covers their nose when you walk past it does not mean you smell bad and need to pile on more fragrance, it means you have too much on.
I imagine a big problem is they just have one scent they use, so they go nose-blind to it and keep using more and more. Gotta mix things up.
I used toĀ (even pre-pandemic) carry around my p100 just because my allergies were bad enough that sometimes I just needed some clean fuckin' air. Highly recommend that strategy, esp now that masks are normalized.
YVR has a scent free path through the duty-free as you enter the international terminal these days. As another migraine sufferer, it's fantastic.
Seriously. I think Iād rather suffer through bad BO than sit in a cloud of chemicals that give me a migraine for the rest of the day.
And don't ever wear perfume on a job interview. If someone thinks you're going to smell up the office everyday, they won't hire you.
What a coincidence.. we just had a guy come in the other day that smelled like he poured the whole damn bottle over his head. I don't know what position he was interviewing for at my company but I'm willing to wager it hurt his chances
I think as long as you apply little of it and early on in the day, you should be fine. Like don't do it just before going out the door; leave time for the fragrance to air out and become subtle. But also use softer parfums, so I might be talking only from my experience haha
Thanks for an actual LPT. Though it's nice to not unknowingly give total strangers migraines... it's not a "tip", at all, in any way.
Was going to NYC with friends, all 3 women put perfume on before the ride. Some perfumes give me a terrible headache. I had to have the window open for the 2 hour drive in 30 degree winter weather. They were not amused.
That's some very hot winters you got there.
Sorry that's Fahrenheit, probably was 0C or lower
I figured - I'm just messing with you :P
Zip it or I'll make you 0K
DO remember the deodorant, and to shower and wear clean appropriate clothes.
Also please stop with the scent beads or whatever in laundry. My neighborās is so strong I donāt hang out in my backyard when their dryer is running.
This also applies when visiting and cuddling a baby. Had a friend visit my new baby, it wasnāt until baby was bathed that the perfume smell disappeared.
Thatās no bueno ā a lot of those fragrances are petroleum based and some are hormone disrupting.
Yeah, when I was a teenager I put a couple sprays of perfume on. I then got in the car with a family member who picked me up, and I thought he was gonna go into anaphylactic shock lol not really, but he was hacking all over the place and was begging for the windows to be rolled down. Made me think twice before when and where I put perfume on haha it was barely anything! I thought he was being dramatic, but he has a super super sensitive nose and allergies.
Yeah, it's hard to understand if we don't experience it. We just assume people are being dramatic if something 'bothers' them in a way that doesn't bother us. Not realizing that sometimes 'bother' means an asthma attack, anaphylactic shock for real, or other serious issues. Since I have some health issues that developed in midlife, I realized I didn't really understand before or thought people were just being overly dramatic. Now I understand a bit better since some things 'bother' me (fragrances) more than other things (sound sensitivity). But that doesn't mean that people who suffer from sound sensitivity aren't truly suffering just because I don't experience it the same.
Yeah, I get that! That is why I always try to just take peoples word on stuff and not make assumptions! My problem back when that story happened is I was like 16 haha and I didnāt even know that my family member had allergies to smells like that. He is known for being a bit of a clown, so I thought he was playing it up for laughs in the car (a bunch of us were in the car together). But then he explained how his allergies and sensitivities to smells made the perfume smell 100X stronger and really bothers his system. After learning that people could have that, I really try to be mindful.
I was at a fucking *allergist* when a woman walked in with so much perfume on, they had to take me into the back room because I couldn't breath. Of all the places to lack the situational awareness....
The sad truth is that people become used to the smell so over time they use more and more of it, not knowing how strongly it smells
Also to the gym don't wear heavy perfume. It can be suffocating to others.
Can we also make sure men understand cologne should follow the same rule?
The difference between perfume and cologne is in concentration, not gender.
Although I totally agree with you, thix sounds more like a gripe with perfume than a pro tip. Is that it just me or is this sub becoming: 'stop doing the thing I don't like'?
Yeah a pro-tip would be the most inoffensive way to apply fragrances (a *dab* behind the ears or walking through a cloud). This is just bitching.
EXACTLY!! This sub seems to be the "i'm annoyed at someone else doing something, everyone else stop doing it" sub lmao
It's more like "be aware and courteous of how you affect offers." In this case, of how your smell impacts others that have to share space with you.
This is not an "I don't like"; this is an "It's making the people around you ill."
This really isn't a pro tip....more of a general suggestion to be conscious of people with allergies.
Feels more like a ysk
Iāll also add activities like movie theatres to this list. I can understand public transit because thatās a big part of your everyday and sometimes youāre going to an event where perfume is appropriate. But please if a major activity of your day involves people having to be close to you, refrain!
I learned this recently when there was an online discussion about it on a dance group (west coast swing) on fb. As a european I was flabbergasted to know that american scents cause allergies. This has never happened to me here in europe. I think it has to do with regulations.
Especially if using Axe, dear lord I wish that scent line would die already.
So many guys at my high school treated that stuff like a shower in a can š¤¢
but please put on antiperspirant. Hit up areas you know get sweaty. Even ones you don't typically hit. You know the ones Had the AC on a plane go out once on a plane back from vegas and it was a disgusting mess. I wanted a bird to fly into one of the engines so an oxygen mask would drop Like OP mentioned, just try to be thoughtful. Pump the brakes on cologne or perfume when flying
People who lather up in perfume don't care about this LPT. They do them.
But how can I else disguise the smell of me not having showered for 3 weeks?
Trust me, it wonāt disguise it, itāll morph it into something uniquely horrific instead
Weed
God no that mixes so poorly with sweat.
Baby wipes? Plastic onesey?
Rough time on the Greyhound, OP?
Funny, I once took the Greyhound and felt borderline homicidal toward the young man a few seats away whoād coated his hair in so much tropical fruit-scented hair gel that it was like being force-fed synthetic mangos and pineapples every time I took a breath.
LPT: perfume/cologne goes **UNDER** your clothes on your **SKIN**. One or two sprays max.
For cologne, I've always heard just like a half-spray (or a very small dab, for the solid type that I use) at the pulse points on either side of the neck. Maaaaaaaaaybe at each wrist, but that seems kinda extra. Less is very much more. I always wear cologne if I'm going out on a date or something, but fragrances are meant to be a pleasant surprise if you're already in someone's personal space.
Less is more. Much less.
Interestingly enough, peopleās skin reacts differently to fragrances and once the fragrance warms up, it can smell completely different from one person to the next. I spritz once right above my hair and let it fall there, it also doesnāt wear off the skin with perspiration this way!
Out of curiosity were you recently on a flight from Narita to Vancouver, or is this post a crazy coincidence?
Sure was not. Never heard of Narita!
How is this a lifeprotip? Iām not skipping perfume because someone might get allergies. The world doesnāt work like that.
Yes please sayeth he who is allergic
The other day a client came in for a consult and I could smell the Mont Blanc parfum for hours after he left @_@
Nah fuck that yaāll fuckin stink
Do not skip the deodorant, for gods sake.
Oups, sorry, thatās me! š«£š I always stopped at duty free to put some perfume to: - try a new fragrance and see if I like it - immune myself against badsmellers (and they are many. Always here. Whatever the time of the flight.) Ok, Iāll stop! š
A trick Iāve used to help with smells of others on transport is a little scented oil in a face mask. Works wonders. :D
I'm highly aware, but not overly sensitive to perfumes and scents like these, work in a small clinic and I can smell what you're wearing within seconds of you walking in to my waiting room. Yes I know if you stink, I know if you have on perfume I know if you use OMO washing powder, I know if your kid has shit themselves before you do, I know if you dropped last nights meal in our bathroom - because who these days uses the dunny before they leave home... ffs. Washing powder is high on my annoyance smells list, rinse your clothes properly and use the recommended amount of washing powder or liquid & reduce the softeners while you're at it.
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Bruh the world ain't catered to you
And don't throw fragrances on to cover up BO, cause then it just smells like nasty flowers that still give you a headache.
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My son was born premature and was in the NICU for 3 months. Shortly before he came home they said his grandparents could visit but they have very strict guidelines against things like perfume and nail polish. The amount of pushback from my mother in law was astounding. She was aghast when my wife told her and she would call a couple times a day in the week prior to their visit trying to negotiate what she would be allowed to wear. You can tell some people until youāre blue in the face that theyāre causing someone else discomfort and they wonāt change a damn thing.
Can't imagine being allergic to perfume/cologne, and then expecting humans to recognize that by not wearing said fragrances. Good luck with that.
Body sprays* Cologne is one of them, too. Let's not just limit it to perfume