Do we really need to use deodorant?
If you spend almost all of your time in an air-conditioned building, and you shower every day, I really question the need for it. Maybe occasionally, if on that particular day you’re going to hit yard sales or going to an outdoor picnic.
I know some people might feel the need for it all the time. If you’re a person who sweats a lot. If you’re outside a lot, and so on.
What say you?
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and don't use underarm deodorant. Makes me sweat more when I did so I quit using it.
In hot weather I spend a good amount of time in the pool too 
not such a stink that folks eyes water
teeth fall out
and peels paint off a barn
stench
Raccoon, make sure you wash your hands too. 
To answer your question, feel free to stink up your own air conditioned building, but do the rest of us a favor and wear deodorant when in public. Our civilization thanks you!
a bottle of mouthwash with them. To me, a person's breath can often be worse than their B.O., I guess because it's harder to smell your own breath than your own stink. I like to take precautions just in case. I take a nice long shower every day and use deodorant and subtle scents. I brush my teeth for a long time and regularly, and eat mints when I'm going to be around others. People tell me I always smell good, which is nice to hear.
hardly ever shampooed her hair and never used deodorant. She swore she wasn't funky and that her body just got used to it. Claimed all those products made us more dependent on them. All I know is I exercise every day, I sweat, and I stink...until I get all clean.
I think you're right. Some people don't smell bad.
When my boys were little, they smelled like puppies or horses when they came in from playing. They really didn't stink. However, once puberty hit - OH MY LAWD - the smell was unbearable. However, they did not smell it themselves. At some point, friends must have commented because they now use deodorant on a regular basis.
You Gotta Wash Your Ass
By 6:30 am my clothes and hair have absorbed the smell of manure, horse grunge, fly spray, hay slime from the horse that rubbed on me etc. If its a day to deworm then I will also have some of that on me. Or if I have to medicate a horse with liniment or poultice or ichthammol then I'll stink like that as well....
Bottom line is that human sweat smell doesn't even register in my world. I know the farriers don't bother with deoderant. Neither do my vets, tractor mechanics, hay dealer etc.
Even more evilly 
sometimes I have to inflict my smelly grungy self on you all if I have to run to the store before I've had a shower (for Epsom salts or Karo to sweeten a meal for a horse who won't eat their meds or any of a million things). I need supplies off the farm but since I'm going right back to work afterwards I will just head out. I do make some concessions for you non-farm folk... I change out of my disgusting barn sneakers and put on the "nice" baseball cap.
So before you judge, please know that some of us are small family farmers or others like me in the middle of a work day. Doing solid smelly salt of the earth stuff
who needs deodorant when you have "access" to manure? 
I have been out to the house a couple of times but am hanging in a hotel for a bit longer (see our replies to this thread for the reason why LOL - not great environment for the giant open hole in my leg, even if bandaged.)
Bad germs!!
Take care and try to enjoy having complete control of the remote for a while longer...
but I do know that I need to use deodorant, even if I'm spending all day, every day, in AC.
The funk started at the very dawn of puberty, and has continued unabated ever since, even into menopause. Even though my armpits are devoid of hair (because it all fell out).
Can't be my diet. I don't eat lot of meat, and have not even touched beef in nearly 8 years.
And I don't sweat any more than anyone else I've ever known. In fact, a couple of weeks ago I was at a family function, and even though it wasn't overly hot, one of my sisters was sweating up a storm and I wasn't.
Just one of those unfortunate stinky people I guess
Some of them will make my underarms look and feel like I rubbed poison ivy on them.
(Type "deodorant allergy" into google image search to dredge up some really disgusting photos...)
The best my skin has ever felt was doing field work in places where water is scarce. After a week or two I'm a little smelly but my skin feels great!
you wouldn't even ask!
I'm about to go shower but the humidity this morning on my walk left me gross. I do fall into one of your categories: I sweat a lot. Even indoors in the middle of winter.
aluminum on my skin first, let it dry, then add a regular type over it. I tell myself it's better to have the "natural" one touching my skin, but who knows? I have to do this because I can not shower more than once a day. It's too drying for my skin. But even if I showered several times a day, I still think I'd need deodorant. One way I know it's working is if I sweat during the day I smell my deodorant. Without it, I would be smelling something else entirely.
"If you run out of deodorant go into the kitchen and put a bay leaf under each arm, won't help you stop perspiring but you'll smell like soup"
The cheapest would be this:
It really does work.
She's got Arab ancestry and uses a system of beautifully scented oils and scraping that I don't entirely understand, that she learned from her grandmother. She says its a process that's typically used where there isn't a lot of access to water. She believes its much healthier for the planet and our bodies.
She's also an intense cross country bike rider too who rides and trains daily.
Her skin and hair are magnificent. And she smells fantastic.
So it is possible and I can say there's no funk.
