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People that don’t wear antiperspirant… (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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do you not smell body odor or do you just get used to it?

Genuinely curious. I have met a few people of different walks of life that I could tell did not and I have always used it, so I’m just curious. I know there was a couple that stopped using it for around a year, and they said their body actually end up not perspiring as much as when they used antiperspirant, but I’d like to know other people’s experiences.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Some people don't sweat that much. For example, I have to use antiperspirant to avoid body odor but my wife don't need to use one and I can't smell odor.

This is probably related to this genetic trait. I have wet earwax and body odor, while my wife has dry earwax and no body odor.

Quote from the article:

In general people with the non-functioning ABCC11 variant don’t need to wear deodorant.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wet earwax??

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yep this actually varies among people. The "wet" type is soft kinda like warm candle wax, and more common in the West. AFAIK the "dry" type is more brittle and crumbly and more common in East Asia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Apparently I got that too. Confirmed by my first gf, I barely smell while sweaty. And my earwax is dry/flaky.