I used to be able to leave two days between showers. Now I'm on testosterone, and if I'm unlucky, my armpits be smelly within hours of shower. Should I shower every day?
Short answer,yes. Second while you’re going through second puberty remember it’s a fragrant process and you don’t need to be self conscious, but you cannot be too diligent about hygiene
They could be living in a desert region where multi-national agri-corps have drained local aquifers in order to grow cheap cotton for Americans which means there's not enough water in the village for everyone to all wash themselves once a day. Such people often use aromatics in loo of washing.
Wait, what!?!?! You don’t wash your butt crack, cause you’re worried it’s gay?!?! mate it’s a matter of personal hygiene! I bet you wash your genitals…. lots by the sound of it!
Wow am I? I suspect my wife and kids would be as surprised as I am. But you seem like an insightful chap so no doubt you’re right… you and your smelly butt crack 😂
If you’re a good person one day you’ll make it to old age and look back to now and realize how wrong you were. Just as those who supported Rhodesia and South Africa and Algeria might look back in shame of their arrogance
Nope. Isreal will not be defeated, unlike those young fascist white upstarts. Literally, every single person with any political influence agrees with me.
Not the international criminal court lmao. I wish you a healthy recovery from your delusion. I hope you didn’t dispossess any Palestinians so the blood of your lunacy might wash more easily.
Since you are a person with clout, could you encourage young men to wear less perfume generally? If I can smell a person's perfume before they enter a room, it makes me want to flee. Most women know this, but many men really pour it on.
This. I’ve been into perfumes lately and people want “sillage” - how far away the perfume can be perceived. I wear perfume for me, and anyone who gets in nice and close.
Dudes who put on too much perfume chase away women - no matter how expensive your perfume is you smell cheap.
As a teacher during the aughts, this was also eau du Axe Body Spray. And now any time I strongly smell fragrance on a man, my brain just assumes it's still Axe even if it's something high end.
On one of my military assignments, I was stuck on a 45-minute bus ride every single morning with young troops and their Axe—until we threatened to do room inspections and confiscate it.
I'm an Old and I've never been able to think of or listen to the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" without thinking "so, Axe in a locker room" (based on my kids' reports) & then i just LOL & that's it for the song
Yup. I was in highschool in the early aughts. Seemed like every teenage boy had their own impenetrable cloud of Axe Body Spray following them. Developed a strong aversion to men's fragrances after that.
I've been thinking about this off and on since you posted it, and just now as someone sat down at a table next to ours at a restaurant and is currently making me gag from the smell.
Years ago, the outside audit manager who came every year wore cologne you could small ftom the next room. I took him out to lunch and said toning it down would help his career. Ran into him 10 years later and he thanked me profusely for giving him the advice nobody else had the guts to give.
Maybe for travel? Twenty hour flight plus getting to the airport, getting home, maybe catching a connecting flight?
Not all regional airports have showers. I'm not sure I'd want perfume for that, but it's the only explanation I can think of.
I prefer fully unscented products. Perfumes & colognes when everything we put on it body smells like Candle Yankee is overkill. Give your skin some care & rest.
hi from Australia ... I don't shower daily, fyi. Nor wear fragrance to go to the shops or the beach. Just sayin'. but that could be an age thing (70).
if fragrance lasts 48 hours it's probably on the clothing not the man.
but yeah, teeth is another thing, and hands too - a must.
I was not implying an absence of toothpaste, my bad. I also use listerine, partly for hygiene, partly due for accelerating the wakening process with pain...
I know I'm leaving myself open for a dunk here, but some people (myself being one) have extremely dry skin so showering more than once every couple days, especially in the winter, is a real bad idea unless we wanna be constantly burning and itchy.
It's a bad idea to put on broken skin. Which can and does occur with many suffering from dry skin ailments. People that don't shower every day don't always smell if they still attend to hygiene in other ways.
For many, again myself included, it doesn't do enough post shower. Xerosis is a thing that lotion does help with, but it doesn't make daily showering viable. We still crack like mad, get itchy as hell, and won't sweat properly for a while after a full wash. My lotion is heckin medicated.
Apply a light oil, like Neutrogena sesame oil, to your skin in the shower while still wet, to seal in moisture. Then lightly pat dry, then apply a good fragrance free moisturizer. First Aid Beauty, Eucerin & Vanicream all make good ones. Also water temp should be not too hot & brief showers only.
And for many, again myself included, it doesn't do enough post shower. Xerosis is a thing that lotion does help with, but it doesn't make daily showering viable. We still crack like mad, get itchy as hell, and won't sweat properly for a while after a full wash.
I have severe eczema and I prefer Vaseline fresh out of the shower and ointments over creams. I feel greasy but I feel like it keeps moisture in better than creams or lotions, which just seem to smear on damp skin.
I haven't actually tried the eucerin before, so I'll give that a shot. My current lotion was recommended by my dermatologist and mostly works well. It just doesn't work well enough to justify a shower more than once every 3 days because itching and burning and ow.
I clean up every day, sometimes 2, if I ain't going out much, and shower usually every 3 or 4 for my Xerosis, and as such a scent that lasts 2 days would be neat.
Head and Shoulders is too harsh on the hair and scalp. It'll just cause an overreaction in the hair making it more greasy, especially over time. Don't be a cheapskate and invest in some French pharmacy shampoo.
I usually agree with you, but personally I don’t use fragrance because I smell bad. I use it cause I smell neutral and that a good fragrance is like a good outfit. A fragrance that lasts is a fragrance that I have to use less frequently for it to be noticeable…
Next minute screenshot of same person is featured on Ask Aubry - “none of you superficial bitches who won’t give me the time of day will ever know what a catch you’re missing out on…”
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This place isn't X. positive culture created on Bluesky is the result of people who left for a reason.
Before u reply to tell someone why they're *definitely wrong* & *definitely should have said what you would have*:
Ask yourself why you are here.
Then don't.
thanks @timinclimate.bsky.social
Speaking as someone hypersensitive to artificial smells, who works for chronic illness clients that get literal migraine from said smells... Dr Bronner's soap is my recommendation.
It’s a genuinely very effective gargle for sore throats…and as a bonus, no one will come close enough to you after you use it to catch whatever you have!
Whether someone cleans with Phenol Vs Milton Vs Dettol Vs Zoflora is the *real* way to age someone.
I'm getting childhood flashbacks, now you've mentioned gargling with it.
This definitely worked, but was certainly an extreme method to enforce social distancing.
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Was hard to let go of my lifetime scent (amber butter) but I wanted to congregate so gave it up I did.
https://www.fragrantica.com/board/viewtopic.php?id=135730
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Is is just "girl version and boy version" or is there genuine difference between them?
Dudes who put on too much perfume chase away women - no matter how expensive your perfume is you smell cheap.
Because his mom was one of my best friends and she was soooo disgusted by Axe. He wore that instead and she was so delighted.
“Pay attention to me!” “Smell how expensive I am!” “I don’t bathe and I use product to cover it!”
It doesn’t take heaps of empathy to consider that not everyone in the room wants to smell your bad taste.
"No sir, I don't think a musk is right for you. No sir, that doesn't mean you should add more."
Not all regional airports have showers. I'm not sure I'd want perfume for that, but it's the only explanation I can think of.
Same for plug in air fresheners. People are going noseblind from scent overload.
if fragrance lasts 48 hours it's probably on the clothing not the man.
but yeah, teeth is another thing, and hands too - a must.
Eucerin makes an unscented oil balm that made a big difference for me.
Or, use your regular lotion right after a shower & seal it with Vaseline. Either *will* feel icky for 10-15 minutes, but it helps tons.
If you haven’t already, look into Vanicream and/or Eucerin. And SPF sunscreen daily, even in winter. It makes a shocking difference.
This place isn't X. positive culture created on Bluesky is the result of people who left for a reason.
Before u reply to tell someone why they're *definitely wrong* & *definitely should have said what you would have*:
Ask yourself why you are here.
Then don't.
thanks @timinclimate.bsky.social
I went home and reeked of her perfume for the rest of the day. 😵💫
And it’s expensive yes
Please, please teach young men, with cologne less really is more.
Signed,
A 7th grader mom
It has a half life of about a month... 😬
Whether someone cleans with Phenol Vs Milton Vs Dettol Vs Zoflora is the *real* way to age someone.
This definitely worked, but was certainly an extreme method to enforce social distancing.