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We survived a few thousand years or so without deodorant.
If you shower daily and wear clean clothes, you shouldn't need it.
We survived a few thousand years without showering daily and clean clothes. We had different lifestyles and different expectations.
Most people would have washed daily by some method, we've had soap and water for a very long time.
So you've acclimated to your own stench, got it
Depends on climate. If its hot, you need deoderant.
If you're gonna freeze off fits you don't even have the moment one of your ten layers unzips, you may not.
Modern deoderant is modern. There's a long history of scent coverings, especially in indoor public spaces like temples. Why the bucket of hydrogenated whale piss do you think incense started being a thing?
I definitely don't live in a hot climate, I'll be lucky if the temperature hits double digits today.
We had more space back then LOL. And some middle east area they wore scented deoderants on their head that would waft down and mask body odor.
I can shower, put on fresh clothes and if the temperature is above 20C I'll be stinky as heck just after lunch. I always need deoderant or antiperspirant if I need to interact with anybody (including myself)
And there they are.
You stink.
We also lacked indoor plumbing, sanitation, sewage management, and typically had livestock near people as there were no highways or 18-wheelers to deliver meat from a farm in another region.
Life was stanky for thousands of years.
Well, I shower daily and wear a fresh set of clean clothes every day. Guess what, my armpits still stink. Should I just subject everyone around me to that every time I raise my arms, or should I wear deodorant like a normal person?
Exfoliate that shit.
Maybe clean your pits properly?
Is scrubbing them with soap proper enough, or should I be using some kind of industrial solvent?
If your pits still smell when exiting the shower, you just gotta get back in and rewash. I had this issue back when I used scented products and strong antiperspirants, it was difficult to get rid off the old gunk because it was properly matted. Unscented and gentle products are easier to wash away and to notice what is sweat and what is old product.
I don't have issues with "matted gunk," I scrub and exfoliate until the previous day's antiperspirant is fully gone. They don't smell when I get out of the shower. However, after about 6-7 hours or less while sweating, it's back. Bacteria gonna do what bacteria gonna do.
I was answering more to the "industrial cleaner", too strong cleaning just makes the skin protect itself faster. And sweating in 6-7 hours is normal.
Yeah. Survived. We can still survive. Doesn’t mean you don’t smell bad.
Our lives are filled with things we don't "need" that we are not going to do away with any time soon.
Just have a shower, dude.