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

submitted 1 year ago by loopy@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Meuzzin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the correct answer. Deodorant works just fine without cancer causing aluminum oxide.

[–] plumbus@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don’t have to use it, but aluminum salts are not really cancer-causing:

https://www.healthline.com/health/what-to-know-about-aluminum-in-deodorant

[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

All calories are cancer causing, seriously. We need to stop using that term, because it’s nearly meaningless. We use it to describe something with a 100% cancer rate, and 0.01% rate.

Most people make the greatest risk of their lives, when they get in their car… and here we are all taking precautions against something insanely less likely to cause your death.