The Funk's Yo Brother...

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My husband is kind of an au naturale guy. He doesn't wear cologne or go in for any kind of skin care products, he uses dish soap as shower gel (he says it prevents soap scum) & it took me years to get him convinced that hairs growing out of facial moles were not cool, and to use some dandruff shampoo. He grows his nails long, still, and has a 1970s porn-star meets Sam Elliot mustache.

Anyway, all this aside, his sweat has a peculiar odor. The only thing I can liken it to is condensed chicken noodle soup (there are actual disorders involving things like 'maple syrup urine' or 'oast-house urine', but I don't think there's any particular metabolic disorder that causes 'chicken soup sweat'). But, Rob being Rob, no matter how funky he gets, he doesn't want to use deodorants. Part of it is because he has sensitive skin, which I can understand. He also doesn't like how roll-ons feel, or how aerosols clump up, or how most deodorants are scented. He knows he stinks, he just won't do anything about it.

I told him about the crystal deodorant, and he was curious enough to let me order some off teh interwebs. I got a rock & a spray bottle of the mineral salt solution. He still can't figure the rock thing out, but he's been using the pump bottle after he showers.

It's the weirdest thing. My husband has no body-odor now. He showered about 2 days ago, we just had sex, and he sweated, but it was completely devoid of any scent whatsoever. It's kind of creepy in a way, like he's an android or something. Except if he was an android, I'd expect him to smell kind of like a Ken doll.

I'd switch, but he doesn't like me wearing perfumes & what-not, so my deodorant is the closest I get to smelling good, lol.


I fully endorse this product: Thai Deodorant Stone Pump.