Why do people use deodorant?

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i didnt know where to post this lolanyway, like wuts the purpose of using deodorant?one of my friend said that it makes u sweat less...another said its just to make u smell good after u sweat...im so confused... lol

hahawell as you get older, you seem to make more body odourand you seem to make more odour when you sweatso deodorants do 1 or 2 things (or both):1. stop you sweating2. add nice smell to youi didnt need it when unti i was bout 13 or so, and only then after playing sport. now i need it every day

hmm well you put it under your arm pits because its one of you hottest body areas. your pits plus crotch and head are where you have the most body temp. Since people sweat a lot on the part of clothing covering your pits you can see it;s drenched which is unsightful and your mostlikely gonna have some real bad B.O.

Well, most deodorants are now coupled with antiperspirants, but usually they just mask/remove the odor.

Basically to stop you being a smelly fucker. Personally i don't really sweat and i shower every day so i smell of roses (or lavender to me more accurate), but i still put on some manly deodorant so i smell....manly.

"Anti-perspirants" stop you sweating. Mostly they do that by blocking up the pores, which isn't very healthy.

Sweat doesn't smell bad of itself. It becomes bad-smelling because of the action of bacteria on it. "Deodorants" stop that by killing the bacteria. (They may also have a perfume of their own.)

In reply to: "Anti-perspirants" stop you sweating. Mostly they do that by blocking up the pores, which isn't very healthy. do you know how bad they really are?now you have me concerned as i've heard this before... that they can even cause cancer??

In reply to: so i smell of roses (or lavender to me more accurate), you one of them Norfolk girly-boys? LMAO

I don't think there's any increased risk of cancer.

the clue is in the names. sweat is called perspiration. therefore and anti perspirant will make you not sweat as much. an odour is a smell. a deodourant is used to get rid of a smell, or rather to mask it in most cases

soap and shampoo are healthy

I couldn't NOT use deodorant... I can't stand being smelly, or even sweaty. I don't know what exactly it does, but I can't live without it!

Well as you may know today's AMERICAN society doesn't accept smelly bastards, to be blunt. Many other societies do not wear deoderant for one they can't get it or two they can't afford it, so they have to smell, but thats natural for them, they are used to it so they don't mind the smell. If I lived in France, where they dont wear deoderant they wear eau de toilet, I wouldn't wear deoderant either. It's kind of a niussance.

i know i cant live without it.. ill forget one day and ill worry the whole day if i smell.. ill always check.. its so grosss