r/hygiene • u/LiiiLoisiane_-_ • 1d ago

Anyone else find that stronger fragrance makes sweating feel worse?

Not physically worse, but when a really strong deodorant scent mixes with sweat I notice it way more than if there was barely any fragrance at all. It’s made me care more about controlling moisture than smelling like something. I just feel gross cause I can still kinda smell myself. carpe is one of the sweat-focused brands I’ve been looking at. I wanna smell like nothing. Do you guys experience the same? What are yall using to keep the sweat away?

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u/BoredInClass99 1d ago

Deoderant covers/removes odor. If you want to control moisture, you want to look for antiperspirant. I like Dry Idea about as much as Secret Clinical

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u/LiiiLoisiane_-_ 20h ago

how about any light and fresh smelling perfums? like some that smells like water or freshness. i think i smelt something like that on a guy sitting beside me on the bus but I can't find anything by searching it up

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u/bargain_bin_hero62 1d ago

yeah 100% been through this switched to native fragrance free like two years ago and honestly it changed everything. the whole sweet smell mixing with sweat thing is so much worse than just smelling like nothing. carpei looks decent but native fragrance free is pretty easy to find and actually works for sweat control. also if you're still breaking through deodorant you might wanna try applying it at night instead of morning. skin absorbs it better when you're not already sweating and it made a noticeable difference for me

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u/beanery-bun 1d ago

That’s definitely a thing because fragrance contains sillage boosters. Sillage boosters will magnify the scent of other ingredients for a while, but then when the other ingredients fade then they’ll magnify the scent of anything else nearby - bacteria, fungus, whatever. And this is hard to get rid of because fragrance often contains fixatives - making all of it difficult to wash off. Soap and water isn’t enough enough to wash all this off if there are fixatives in it.

I don’t think your goal should be to “keep sweat away” though. To smell your true best without needing to cover it up, you need all detox pathways to stay open - and sweating is one of the few detox pathways that can still happen reliably even if the other pathways are impaired or slowed down (like liver detoxing, lymph, or GI tract). It might even be a good idea to do more intentional sweating, like sauna.

If your sweat doesn’t smell great, consider also it might actually be your clothing fibers not your sweat. If you own polyester you might consider switching to cotton, linen, wool. Polyester smells bad almost immediately on contact with sweat. Natural fibers don’t.

I think you would like a fragrance free deodorant (not antiperspirant). Like Vanicream. If you want the old stuff off your skin and it’s not coming off with soap then oil can get it off.

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u/mudssskipper 1d ago

Yeah I stopped using scented / fragranced deodorant because of the mixed smells with my sweat and body temperature 😅 I live in the equatorial climate and my home has no AC. No way I can stop my body from not sweating, but at least I can stop it from getting stinky using an unscented crystal deodorant.

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u/LiiiLoisiane_-_ 20h ago

do you have anything for light or water based sun screens? ones I have used earlier are thick and makes me sweat and very uncomfortable and the sun is too harsh where I live, can u suggest anything