So firstly, I don’t sweat a lot to begin with. I’ll go for a run and I’ll be at a mile before I feel sweat beading up. I’ll get a little clammy throughout the day, but rarely have whole body sweats. As a result, I have very low body odor. If I don’t shower, it’ll take several days before my significant other will notice.
But I don’t wear deoderant or antiperspirant. If I do, then its like the rest of my body decides it needs to sweat. Anyone else out there with this experience?
Antiperspirants don’t really reduce how much you sweat.
They just reduce how much you sweat at your armpits. They use aluminum to essentially clog your armpit sweat glands to keep them from sweating too much. But you are sweating for a reason - because your body thinks it is hot, so you just end up sweating more in other parts of your body. It isn’t some magic no-sweat medicine.
There’s a bunch of people here saying that in a confident tone, but not a single source. You got a source you can cite for that claim, or are you just repeating what you’ve heard other people say?
What part is in question?
The claim that deodorant causes you to sweat an equal amount elsewhere as you would’ve through your armpits.
I’m no doctor, but I can’t imagine why you’d sweat more elsewhere by having antiperspirant on. Your body is sweating because it’s hot, it’s not hotter by having the antiperspirant on and the difference in the cooling speed of your body by allowing your pits to sweat probably isn’t very much, so you’re not likely sweating longer. Unless you normally sit there with your arms up to air out the pits.
but i too, do not have a source.
Yeah this is what I imagine is going on with my body and hence the post. Never heard anyone else talk about it or seen a real source.
For me, I feel like sweating from my pits localizes the smell and thus no one really smells it. Again, I barely sweat anyway. But when I do use antiperspirant (deodorant does the same but to a lesser extent), then I sweat everywhere and find it easier for people to smell and I just feel more gross.