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Does anyone on here use deodorant as an alternative to showering/bathing daily? Meaning that you shower less frequently than once a day (e. g. once every few days, once a week, etc), but compensate by re-applying deodorant throughout the day so that you don't smell. And if you do use deodorant as an alternative to showering/bathing daily, please indicate how often you actually do shower/bathe.
Wouldn't you have to rub the deodorant over your entire body because foul body odors come from a variety of areas on the body. There is not an "alternative to showering" that I know of. I remember in the 70's when some people just applied another layer of cologne - yuck! Or, all of those products now to spray your clothes with chemicals instead of washing them or yourself I guess, yuck again.
I see a lot of people with dirty hair and clothing, so many more than I saw in the last century. Yuck yet again.
Does anyone on here use deodorant as an alternative to showering/bathing daily? Meaning that you shower less frequently than once a day (e. g. once every few days, once a week, etc), but compensate by re-applying deodorant throughout the day so that you don't smell. And if you do use deodorant as an alternative to showering/bathing daily, please indicate how often you actually do shower/bathe.
You aren't going to get different opinions than the shower thread. How you shower every other week is not the norm. You may not think you stink because you wear clean clothes and deodorant. Trust me, you do.
Yep, my ds17 thinks all he has to do is use some deodorant and no one's the wiser
Once he even sprayed his shoes with Lysol, thinking that beats washing his socks
I try to teach my kids its best to use unscented deodorant, shampoo, soap, other body products, otherwise you get a clash of smells., including the original odor they were trying to cover up to begin with.
I also try to teach my kids to use expensive perfume, like, what you buy in Macy's, etc. don't go with the cheap drugstore stuff. it smells good to begin with, then, the pleasant odor breaks down, mixes with body odor, in general, smells terrible!I try to encourage their appreciation of fine fragrances by gifting them nice perfumes from Macys, etc, to get them used to the "finer things" Alas.....ds still sprays his shoes with Lysol!
Probably once a month, give or take, i'll not have enough time or be uber exhausted and will wash up in lieu of a shower. This means cleaning the key areas with soap and water and apply deoderant. It's not a problem.
I can't say I use deodorant daily in lieu of showering. I use it daily, period. I don't like the sticky feeling of sweat in my armpits, which can happen even if I'm not particularly overheated.
However, I do not need to shower every day. It isn't good for your skin. I don't actually sweat much on a normal work day, never have. Definitely can only wash my hair every three days, so at an absolute minimum I shower every third day. In the summer I take a quick rinse off daily, but in the winter? Meh....
But I'm a middle aged librarian, not a sweaty teenager in sneakers.....
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