For deodorant: I have had very good experience with “Thai stone” style salt-based deodorants. These work simply by making your skin inhospitable to odor-causing bacteria while not causing you irritations. You need to apply it liberally (after slightly wetting the stone, I just count out 8 strokes under each arm), but a single stone will last you … a very long time … and it does really work for a whole day. It has no scent, per se, so you will just smell like you smell without the sulfurous bad smells caused by BO bacteria.
No judgement, here. In my experience, the latter has led to the widespread use of patchouli by those who believe in salting their pits, and that’s not much of a vote of confidence in its efficacy.
Soap: a bar of unscented oatmeal-based soap
For deodorant: I have had very good experience with “Thai stone” style salt-based deodorants. These work simply by making your skin inhospitable to odor-causing bacteria while not causing you irritations. You need to apply it liberally (after slightly wetting the stone, I just count out 8 strokes under each arm), but a single stone will last you … a very long time … and it does really work for a whole day. It has no scent, per se, so you will just smell like you smell without the sulfurous bad smells caused by BO bacteria.
Or so I gather…
No judgement, here. In my experience, the latter has led to the widespread use of patchouli by those who believe in salting their pits, and that’s not much of a vote of confidence in its efficacy.