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Who do YOU know that goes 3 or more days between showers ??

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#1 ·
What the heck, man?
All these TV ads for the extended deodorant, 72 hours and such. Who the heck goes 3 or more days between baths or showers?
Yeah...If you live in a COLD climate where you don't sweat, maybe....It is below zero outside, maybe 65 degrees inside and you aren't doing jumping jacks....
If you're camping, in the Military and on duty away from running water, if you're homeless but otherwise? Three days or more?
These products are heavily advertised on the TV stations here in Northern California where it gets well over 100 in the Summer.
I don't see how a company would advertise so heavily if they didn't see a market for their product.
So who is buying this stuff? The ads talk of websites to order from, maybe so the gross bastards buying this stuff don't get called out for it at the local Target or Wal Mart.

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#2 ·
Nay Nay comes to mind as someone they’re marketing this to.

If you’re actually doing something where you need deodorant, there’s no excuse for going days without a shower. On those cold winter days where I do absolutely nothing but lounge around the house and skip a day, deodorant isn’t necessary anyway. Of course, I don’t use deodorant, because I don’t seem to have any problem with BO. I’ve read that there’s some genetics involved here, but I think showering properly to keep clean every day plays a bigger role.

I care much more about going to bed clean so my sheets don’t get funky. The last thing I do every day before bed is take a shower, and I change my sheets once a week. I couldn’t imagine going to bed dirty on a regular basis and having to change my sheets every couple days. But some people really are lazy enough to not keep themselves or their sheets clean, so they buy crap like this.

A surprisingly large number of old people seem to forgo showers and try to cover up the smell with all manner of chemicals and fragrances, even though it’s painfully obvious to those around them.
 
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Every-day shower person here. To me it's a pleasurable experience, not simply to wash off the funk. That hot water beating down on my creaky old joints feels good and I can stand there a long time.

Got an X brother in law that goes anywhere from 4 to 6 weeks between showers. Not lazy, just seriously depressed, a serious diabetic and couldn't care less if he makes a herd of goats smell good. I drop by and take him to dinner now and then but he knows a shower first is part of the deal. No shower; stay home and eat a bologna sandwich.

Hollyweirds often let their kids go a week or so between baths/showers. Claim it's better for the skin not to wash off its natural oil every day and they may be right. But dry skin isn't a problem with me but a week without a shower would be a real problem. Daily Mitchum Unscented deodorant user.
 
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Don’t need two showers a day if you’re doing it right. I’ve met some people before who say they take 90 second showers twice a day, and let me tell you, there ain’t no way in hell you’re getting CLEAN in 90 seconds.

My showers are typically 15-20 minutes. In the winter if I’m just not working up a meaningful sweat very often, I will turn my bathroom into a steamroom every few days to sweat it all out anyway. You want your pores to stay clean, you’ve got to scrub your skin to keep them open and then put them to use.

I started using Salux cloths years ago and it made a bigger difference in my showers than anything else I’ve tried. I scrub every inch of my skin to scrub off the dead skin and keep the pores open. You ain’t doing that in 90 seconds. I get properly clean with every shower, not halfass semi-clean like 90 second showerers do.
 
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I had to look that up, didn’t know what it was. Can’t say I’ve experienced that. I have tried a number of different soaps and have seen a noticeable difference in the dryness of my skin afterward, and I’ve settled on something that doesn’t seem to dry it out.

I’m sure it’s possible that some people are just allergic to the ingredients in some soaps, and that may cause that condition.
 
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I think the purpose of the ad is to say that it kills the bacteria that cause odor for 3 full days and it's not necessarily a suggestion to only shower every third day.
I don't want to know what my balls smell like after 3 no-shower days, fuck no!
 
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I probably shower more than most folks. 1-3+ in a day depending on what I am doing. I won't mow in my oily shop clothes or work in the shop in my dusty/grassy lawn clothes. I take a full maintenance soaking hot shower using a washcloth every night before bed. Shave, brush, pick the nails, remove the toe and ass jam, etc.. My other in between showers are the quick type. I don't know about you guys, but my hands, feet, and ass have sweat like crazy ever since my late teens, early 20s. Those spigots have never shut back off.

The only time I might miss a day or two is camping/hunting out at the land or in the sticks when a shower isn't available. Hell, when I was OTR driving, if I wasn't at a truck stop with a shower, I kept two big plastic bowls to sponge bathe in the sleeper cab.

I like thinner deodorants. The full day antiperspirant types can be tough to get off and out of the pits.
 
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It's a personal thing - until it's not personal any more, as in when others begin to smell your nasty ass when you're out and about. At least my shower-hating X BIL stays home with his stink. I doubt you smell any different between your nightly shower and the one you take before you head out to work but if that's what satisfies you then by all means have at it, no one's business but yours. For those who go days without, work up a sweat in between and then head out in public smelling like your local landfill, well, you're probably gonna hear about it.

My wife was once seated next to a goat fucker from some yabba-dabba-doo country on a flight from Orlando to Dallas whose odor was so bad he smelled like a dead body. Fortunately the flight wasn't full and she was able to be reseated elsewhere.
 
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I knew a guy years ago his smell would fill up a room. Smelled like rotten onions. It would literally run you out of a closed in space. It was so bad people used to tell him all the time. It didn't seem to faze him.

I used to frequent a waterfront restaurant decades ago in Fla. Went in one time and I guess a big table was full of some French people. Good lawd did they stank!!