People that don’t wear antiperspirant…

loopy@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 130 points –

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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aluminum works by being an irritant that causes an allergic swelling

That's not how it works though

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-85691-8

Thank you correcting my understanding! The part I find gross though is less the mechanism and more the result: that all the sweat my body is making is just stuck in the glands. If the anti-perspirant was simply absorbing the sweat as it comes out of the pores, then I would feel different about it.

So tl;dr they simply block the pores on your skin to prevent sweating?

Yep.
But it's the sweat glands, to be precise.