then do the same??? literally no one is making you. cis girlies stop being obsessed with men for one second holy shit 😭😭😭😭 literally the only thing u think abt. besides men caring abt their looks gets them called incels. which do u want?
Most people don't do even that much lol. Also idk the obsession with a 10 step bath routine while avoiding washing your hair or body as long as you can. Maybe shower regularly and you wouldn't need all this shit.
Yes! I never take the time to use that amount of stuff. When I want to take a longer shower, i just stand under the running water for a longer time, relaxing, just standing. NOT SCRUBBING MYSELF WITH 10 DIFFERENT SOAPS. This is really crazy to me.
@@Cel-xq6ppwell she was pointing to a body oil. Using a butter or oil is emollient, or greasy. That’s going for shiny skin. Glowy is broader and might mean that, or bronzey/tan
Knowing what shampoo and bodywashes are good and what cleansers to use for the downstairs area, these are helpful information (some people don't have families or friend to help them out), these hygiene influencers aren't all that bad. It's when, as with all influencers, when they encourage and glorify overconsumption that becomes a problem.
Yet here I am with my one bar of soap, one bar of shampoo, one bottle of basic lotion, one deodorant (all unscented) and one toothpaste tube, still alive and perfectly clean.
@@p0t.n00dle4 Dove makes an unscented deodorant, and a local company (The Unscented Company) makes incredible soaps, lotions, and bar shampoo and conditionners. I'm in Qc, Canada.
All this overconsumption is us trying to fill a void with things, or smelling good, or whatever. It’s sad. It’s a sign we are severely lacking true meaning and purpose in our lives that we feel the need to buy so many things.
Dove soap trend seems funny to me. Like, it's just a basic soap, not the best, not the worst. From what time it became a synonym to cleanliness and femininity? Marketing strategy success, indeed.
I can't use Dove soap. It makes me smell horrible and stinky. No other soap does that to me thankfully. I have been using mildly scented and unscented soaps of other brands and they work just fine.
@@kaylawaters2691 I obviously don’t know but my first thought is that maybe it’s your own smell. Yk since dove isn’t actually a “soap,” as in a surfactant, it’s a “beauty bar” in solid form and “body wash” in liquid form. They focus on the non stripping (and, therefore, often not as cleansing) aspect of body cleaning. But again idk and maybe you use other moisturizing cleansing products that work well.
One of the things that annoy me the most is the fact that they made almost every woman believe that sugar scrubs are necessary. The point of the scrubs are to exfoliate right? Well, you can literally do that with a product that doesn't run out. Like exfoliating gloves, exfoliating bath gloves, those long brushes that you can use to wash your back (if it's soft and hard enough at the same time, you can use it on anywhere). Like you can use these for a really long time before you need to replace them. Why buy sugar scrubs that you will need to re-buy every 4 to 5 showers? Their scents are not even permanent. It's literally a cash grab.
Yep, I'm Ghanaian and my net sponge exfoliates my skin perfectly well and costs less than a dollar here. I can use it for months until I am ready to get a new one
I tried a rose scented tree hut sugar scrub once when I had trouble getting dead skin cells and oil off from my nooks and crannies during summer of 2024. It did make my skin smoother and made me feel more refreshed cuz duh, but it was utterly useless at getting rid of the dead skin cell and oil build ups here and there on my body. Plain ass bar soap (not even Dove, don't even recall the brand) did a waaay better job. Currently I use an olive oil soap bar and/or Aveeno bodywash with a wash cloth, and they do their job perfectly.
I can’t use any of those products due to sensory issues, so I like the tree hut scrubs for the easy use and nice scents and feeling. I see no harm in picking them up and they make my skin nice too!
Bottle out, bottle in friends and I cut the bottle open to scoop out what's left. A LOT of product gets tossed when you "think" it's empty. You don't need 5 of every type of thing and deodorant goes a long way in smelling nice, but not too strong. I used to overshop, but now I focus on getting bargains on my go to products, one refill at a time. Thank you for these de-influencing videos. We need them out here.
I got a cosmetics spatula. I also have to carry a lot of stuff on my person due to allergies. As a result I started putting things in travel containers. I also was way too old when I had the revelation that I can chance packing if I hate. I get lots of use getting products out and changing containers.
I don’t overshop, but it feels like I can’t just buy one item at a time! With all the deals and free gifts etc, I get so much product that I only need shop for beauty stuff every few months.
@@marynorton6068 I feel this in my soul. I wish I could mix and match for similar sales. I think I ended up with 5 bottles of the same makeup remover to get the sale then to use a coupon. I did actually use 3 bottles. I gave two away as gifts. I made a couple friends custom makeup kits. There was nothing else I wanted from the brand. At least I could take off sunscreen.
I once got almost a full month’s extra use out of a body lotion I thought was empty when I cut open the pump bottle! I’ll usually take a small spatula and scrape the last bits into smaller jars (from other old beauty products I’ve used up and cleaned out) to keep it airtight and fresh for sometimes a full month, while still easily being able to get the last bit out with my fingers. Another benefit of doing this is that having the packaging cut open and fully emptied makes it so much easier to clean and recycle it. Always check your local recycling rules for how to go about it but in general plastic packaging needs to be pretty clean to be recycled properly.
Literally been using the same products for 4 months I just buy the biggest size on sale and use it up for half a year until the next sale I can’t throw something out until I use everything like wipe it clean I’m going on my second sale shopping on the weekend.
I can’t believe there is a such thing as a “hygiene influencer.” Take a shower, brush your teeth. Wash your hair…what more is there to say? It is such a grift to be making money off telling people how to do something that is so basic to literally every adult lmfao.
You want to be simply clean and that’s final but some people want to be clean AND smell good and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that until it gets to a point of overconsumption.. smelling good also just helps with being confident. I don’t understand y’all in the comments
@@user-gq6nq7fi9wi’ve seen a lot of hygiene influencers who say “if you wanna be clean/have better hygiene you NEED these things, and then they show body scrubs, body oils, body butter, perfume, body mist, and lotions. nobody needs all of that to be clean and smell good. all you need is soap, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, lotion, and a body mist or perfume if you want it. it’s all unnecessary and just to promote overconsumption by utilizing women’s insecurities
I grew out of "love spell" as I got older but we still have a bottle with some left so we use it as a bathroom spray now LOL takes me back everytime i poop
I found the more scented products I use to smell good actually makes me smell worse throughout the day especially when I sweat. I’ve opted into mostly unscented and fragrance free products and one good long lasting perfume.
I agree; most times at the end of the day, especially if I spray my skin with fragrance, it smells really chemically on me. which fragrance free products do you use? so far, dr bronners baby scent has me fresh all day
legit all it does is smell like body odor with perfume on top! i realised long ago that its more important to eat healthy/get proper nutrients and use antibacterial soap layered with unscented lotion/raw shea butter. its way worse to rely on scents from body wash/butter that either leave residue on your skin or clothing which clashes with your laundry detergent etc
@@kikialeaki1850 Overall, dermatiologists worldwide don't recommend scented pads, so even if you don't have problems it's best to give it a search :) Edit: Sorry, dermatologists AND gynecologists* don't recommend it
0:23 seconds in gosh i miss the days before this era 🥲 being a youtuber was rare and fun and everyone was more unique with their own imputs and style when photography vlogs and hauls were a art and everything wasnt so overly pushed and available 😢 life seemed so much more easy going and real back then ...
I really started cutting back 2 years ago. I love things that smell good so I was just blindly buying. Then I sat back and saw how many soaps, lotions, oils and butters I had and I realized I had a problem. I like bulk buying too so I'm learning to buy my bulk and USE it up BEFORE I purchase anything else..my stash is getting smaller and smaller #progress
I need to preface this by saying I have severe depression, but the skincare, body routine became so overwhelming I gave up and began neglecting my hygiene health bc of how overwhelming all this shit began to be
I love pretty scents as much as the next person but I try to be mindful of people with allergies/asthma/sensory issues-like if you need to douse yourself in it then maybe see a doctor-
I feel you! I have sensitive skin and so sensitive to smells and those scents actually can give me a rash, just by being around it and also make me feel incredibly nauseous
@ same! I love scented candles, diffusers, but I just make sure the ingredients are high quality and “natural” and use perfume sometimes but it’s very light and not irritating and only if someone is close to me can they smell it.
I can't wait for us to graduate from the thought that bodies shouldn't stink. Smells can be identifiable for diseases, and as long as you're washing regularly then you should be fine. I do like Body Mists and a scent soap, but nice smells are nice. edit: Your vag is supposed to smell musky. It's normal and a sign it's doing well. Don't stick soap up there.
Seriously about vaginas. It’s literally a hole that leads directly to an internal organ that creates a bunch of excess lining that sheds every month and people think it should smell like flowers or something. It’s going to smell like.. a body part that does a bunch of things
PREACH 🗣️🗣️🗣️ What's crazy is some people like natural body smells, it's one thing to stink and just not being clean but to lather yourself in chemicals to smell a certain way is INSANE. Literally just a trend based on performancism and status
@dabriaaspen7343 I love scented perfumes, soaps and body sprays. I have one body wash and six body sprays lol. (I buy the B3G3 at Bath and Body works but that's it.)
Right as long as your lady parts don’t smell rancid like fish, or copper (which could be a sign of infection or BV) then you’re fine if you smell sweaty because your body sweats. Generally hot water is enough and mild soap on the outside. However your bum definitely needs cleaning considering what it does but a mild soap is plenty.
@@dabriaaspen7343 I learned late in life I’m one of those people who’s body doesn’t naturally produce a BO I can smell like sweat due but it doesn’t have a smell, however deodorant actually makes me smell really bad for some reason and so does certain foods but outside of that I can go without
I'm autistic and perfumes/colognes have been one of my special interests since I can remember. I mostly collect tiny samples rather than full bottles that I'm never going to finish, and share the whole collection with friends and family. I love fragrances, and I especially love a curated collection over a department store display.
I also enjoy my collection of perfumes and enjoy wearing them, but it is for ME. Sad that there is this consumerism push on scent as a moral high ground.
i only recently started getting into fragrance last year (AuDHD!!)… before, the only *perfume* perfume i would wear was taylor swift’s wonderstruck enchanted since it makes me nostalgic; besides that it would be just B&BW body sprays what kickstarted it was oakcha’s dupe for tom ford’s “lost cherry” perfume!! i think the only full-size bottles i’ve bought upfront were from oakcha (60 mL for under $100 but super strong and lasts a while)-i usually get travel sizes from a brand or decants from third party sites. literally a couple weeks ago was the first time i got a full-size bottle from a non-dupe fragrance house… commodity’s “milk,” and literally only got the 100 mL bottle because i used up my travel size a while ago and sephora has a deal where you can get a bunch of 1 mL samplers for $88 and exchange the coupon in for one full-size bottle. FREE… my favorite fragrance so there was zero chance i would pass on that-plus a lot of the other scents are really nice and my mom has taken a bunch loo i think i’m good on new fragrances for now because i do have a lot, but there is just a certain feeling i get (autistic-specific excitement lol) when i smell my favorite fragrances (B&BW’s “brown sugar fig,” commodity “milk,” oakcha dupe of TF’s “bitter peach,” etc.), so i’ll personally keep wearing fragrances for that reason and not hygiene reasons lol 🤣
C’est marrant de voir à quel point les hommes ce sentent concernés au sujet de notre hygiène intime quand ils ne sont pas capable d’en faire autant pour eux … 🤯🤡
Trust me, men are starting to fall into the trap as well. Yes, we should try our hardest to stay clean, but it seems like everyone of every gender is overconsuming.
As a female lemme say this, I like two in one shampoos (shampoo+conditioner) and bodywashes(bodywash+shampoo) that are often only for men and kids. Less clunk and less money spent.
This makes me feel so much better. I have chronic eczema and I used to feel so sad that I couldn't use scented products and 'smell feminine' all the time. For my health I can only use very basic soaps and such.
The Lysol douche ads, aside from just calling women stinky if they didn’t spray disinfectant on their insides, were also trying to market it as a birth control method without outright saying it.
Being clean is a good thing, but ngl as someone who gets headaches from scents, this just looks like not only a sensory nightmare, but a migraine and a half waiting to happen.
Girl , I have always portrayed smelling good / trendy as a cool girl aspect . My brain automatically drew the conclusion that if you smell good - you will be liked by your peers . I clicked on this video on accident , but seriously you opened my eyes . Although, I knew about the concept of purity for women ,I never knew how much it impacted my life . Thank you for this video ❤ keep doing what you do , the more you post the more eyes will be opened ❤
I had a moment where I tried to have a series of "routines." Coconut routine, vanilla routine, pineapple routine, etc. I was so overwhelmed by what I had that I ended up giving it all away and now use Dove shea butter body wash, a moisturizer, and call it done. I think some women are insecure and some are trying to show off that they can buy all this crap. I think many of them don't necessarily have the disposable income but are sacrificing experiences they could be having or a savings account to have a billion body scrubs they're going to have to throw away when they can't use them all before they expire.
@@Biggiecheeseness If that works for you, great! I've neglected my skin lately, so now my nose has dark sebaceous filaments :( gotta get back to my routine.. exfoliation with my acids included.
The irony of spending so much money and using so many products to try to smell good, when using all of them is what makes you smell horrible. Whenever I pass anyone wearing so much fake scent, either one or multiple layered, it makes me gag it smells so bad. Like you said at the end of the video, it's inconsiderate of others, especially people who have reactions to those products
@milky8471 probably not! I think it's more about amount, you know? Like if you were covering yourself head to toe with the lotion it might, but just using those a normal amount is probably not going to bother people
it's horrifying to me that as women we aren't considered clean or hygienic unless we smell like fucking flowers or something. like just showering and using deodorant is ENOUGH. you don't have to always be wearing perfume and use 7 scrubs so you smell like a cake. it's so unnecessary and every time i bring it up around people they always say "well no one wants being in public to smell like a barn" as if the only two options are having no personal hygiene or using 50 scented products. just use SOAP.
NO ONE SAID U HAVE TO SMELL LIKE FLOWERS. no one either said its gross to just use a bar soap. unless u smell like ass, no one said u arent clean or hygenic.
My wake up call was the clutter, and the expired product. By the time I got around to using a particular lotion, it already expired. And that’s when I only got something new as a replacement
My sensitive and dry skin saved me a lot of money, because I just can't use all these lotions and shower gels. Even the look on these gels makes my skin dry 😁
It’s interesting that Lysol was used in that way. Obviously we wouldn’t do something so toxic today. But it makes me wonder how many of the cheaply made products people overconsume today have ingredients that one day will be shown to be bad for us.
Thank you for this video. I am so tired of this constant barrage of Native and Lume all-body deodorant ads that are infecting social media. I even got a freaking Lume ad on this video! I just want to scream at my TV "Women are allowed to smell!"
If you want to damage your skin, use this this this this this and this. Please don’t exfoliate or scrub every day. Once again it’s American trying to tell people that you need a 10 products steps just to shower.
Growing up I instantly knew my mum was my mum from her natural scent and eventually ONE certain perfume she wore everyday. These babies gonna be so confused smelling all these different scents I could only imagine it’ll be overstimulating for these poor children 😢
I'm about to give birth to my second child and like with my first, the hospital specifically recommends getting non scented lotions and soaps for the postpartum period because the scent is so important for bonding.
I work in class action law, normally in lawsuits, but for Flint, there was a program we helped with paperwork processing for. We helped families on SNAP and other government programs get sent clean water. It was very far from enough. Seeing everything Flint was going through from that lens, on such a personal level, it was heartbreaking. I love my career because I help people get some level of justice from companies and employers who are breaking laws, but sometimes it can weigh heavy on my heart to see the aftermath of the events that caused a need for lawsuits.
I was a bath and body works girl in middle school and some of high school but then I learned that they test on animals and that their products are loaded with toxic chemicals. Everything I purchase now is about ingredient quality and ensuring it's cruelty free. Body scrubs can be DIYed super easily as well, or you can use a reusable physical alternative that lasts longer and is much more affordable.
Me watching this in the bathroom as I wash up with my unscented dove bar soap 😂 the shower and hygiene routines I see (like the scene with Sydney Sweeney in euphoria) are so overwhelming!! Also when I’m out in public I feel sick when someone near me is wearing a lot of fragrance 😭 ladies we don’t need all of this!!!!
My mom bought me douche when I had my first period. She was obsessed with hygiene. Top that with my first husband telling me my downstairs stunk when I left him, and I'm still trying to have a healthy relationship with myself.
I agree with this. For me, I like to smell good and I got a little obsessed with it as I got older. Also, I live in the tropics, so at least being fresh and not smelling sweaty is desirable. However, shelves upon shelves of products is overdoing it.
Ugh it's the cleanliness olympics back at it again with people who will tell you that you're dirty if you don't rip off all your skin and grow all new skin overnight.
And they are also calling people who dont double cleanse, use a washcloth and exfoliate five time a week and shower twice a day dirty💀 once i commented that i shower once a day and not use body wash every day when i havent been sweating, and that i only use soap under arms and private area and feet every day. They said ”green aura with flies” or something like that. And that they know i smell…
As someone who grew up not being taught the importance of hygiene, and in 9 grade when I did, struggled to take showers regularly and consistently, I can not imagine doing this. At any point in my life.
As a minimalist and someone who is very sensitive to lots of scents and artificial ingredients this is all a nope to me. I use one organic coconut oil soap, one shampoo and conditioner, one organic body butter that has literally 4 ingredients in it and a natural deodorant. That’s it for body care. Oh and toothpaste. Let me add, the cleaner you eat, the less body odor you will have. I’m a healthcare provider and this is something I learned in nutrition class. I find it to be true. The less fast food, sugar, sodas, and just plain junk that I eat and the more whole fruits and vegetables I eat as well as drinking lots of water make a big difference in how I smell.
NO CUZ THIS IS SO TRUE. What you're ingesting IN your body matters more than what you put on it, same can be said for skincare, like if u eat healthy your skin will be healthy, relying too much on products and spending to fix your issues only creates another problem
These influencers leave out the fact that you have skin microbiome and all the products are stripping their skin of the healthy bacteria. And yes, all the endocrine disrupters are affecting fertility
A couple years ago I finally threw out my collection of body washes, gels, and scrubs, some of which I had kept for at least 8-10 YEARS. Some were 1/4 to 1/2 full, others almost completely full. I felt so guilty that I didn't use them all up that I couldn't throw them out. I was finally able to let go when I moved to a different part of the country and it was just cumbersome to keep them. I now have one perfume I wear on special occasions and one each unscented body wash and deoderant. Such a waste of money and mental energy!
If I'm walking down the street and get a massive whiff of your perfume, it just reminds me of my grandmother drowning herself in Avon body spray and just screams tacky to me.
I have strong smells as one of my main migraine triggers and this whole trend has been hell I'm not even exaggerating. Some people will have SO MUCH scent on them that it will make me have to fight the urge to gag and trigger a migraine. Also as someone who had gender studies as one of their majors, I absolutely LOVED your analysis of the gendered element of this issue. Furthermore, I loved hearing your breakdown of the racial component as well, since I had some knowledge of topics you discussed through my two majors (gender studies and political science) but not as in depth as you explained it and it was just so fascinating. The class component as well! I remember being young and learning from my dad that a large percentage of low-income housing still have lead pipes; I asked my dad why nothing was done about this and he told me about how the government doesn't really care or pay attention to the lower class. That was a moment I will never forget and is one of the moments I point to as informing my sociopolitical views. I just really enjoyed this video and can't even write a long enough comment to convey this but it was just so amazing.
If I have extra to spend, I'll 100% stock up on my products that last forever when they go on sale or are always in short supply. Plus them changing up formulas randomly also makrs me paranoid when I finally find something that my skin finally actually likes. 😅
As a woman, idk why women get upset with me for telling them that the best way to smell good is to track how your body responds to different foods and go with what makes your body feel radiant. Why do women get upset with me for saying this?
i have to admit, im unlearning my overconsumption habits. im in college and living at home with my parents and have a really bad shopping habit. i love watching your videos to deinfluence myself from constantly spending my hard earned money on meaningless hygiene products. since i was a little girl, i was always terrified of smelling bad, thinking it would make me less worthy, make people not want to be around me or think i was dirty or gross. i now realize i have a very very deep insecurity because of this fear growing up. thank you for making this video to further open my eyes to understanding how priveleged i am to be able to afford these things, and i will be a lot more mindful from here on out. i feel so guilty now looking at my huge perfume and body lotion collection, but i am going to focus on using what i have and not buying any more.
i also tend to resort to buying stuff when im sad or depressed (which is alot) and i will have to learn how to fill my cup with another activity that can give me the same rush that shopping does. i honestly feel disgusted with myself and my habits. i wish i had someone to tell me to stop when i was ahead, but im glad i realize it now. i barely have any savings and am in credit card debt because of these bad habits ive built for myself, i need to work on getting out of it.
I work at an ulta and just seeing the staggering amount of unnecesaary scrubs, butters, oils, and sprays people obsess over is jarring. Even the people I work with are outraged that they smell a little after a long truck shift, when it's normal.
😅 I always found it so funny that people of African descent were given that unhygienic stereotype. Meanwhile, the Europeans were not bathing until 19th century. Native Americans claimed, they could identify them by their stench 😅. I don't think Black folks have to prove that clean thing anymore 🧼
People do have their own odor. Parents can identify their children based on their odor. Body odor, and stink aren't the same thing. This natural scent is why perfumes and colognes don't always work on people.
THANK YOU for this video because most normal people don't buy a shit ton of hygiene products every week. Because it's NOT realistic. I will watch them if I want something new to try, but at the same time, a lot of the products are overrated and not affordable. Example: vanilla girl hauls... NO ONE is going to use multiple products that all smell like vanilla? it's over kill. You can smell nice but not buy 10+ products to do so. Everytime I comment on these youtube videos which normally are targeted towards naive young kids, I am told that I am "jealous" when that's not the case??? I have TWO body washes and while I don't really like their scent, I STILL use them because I'm not going to just buy 5 body washes because it's SO unrealistic.
I’m so glad you brought up allergies because I’ve had such bad responses when I’ve spoken up about it. People say anything from you can’t expect others to cater to you, to I don’t care I want to smell good. I have rosacea so my skin starts to burn and turn red and itchy when I’m around strong fragrances. Sucks that people are so inconsiderate
As usual I really enjoyed your video. This type of content is so problematic for all the reasons you mentioned. Performing beauty to this extreme is so tired, I have other things to do and I'm not trying to increase my carbon footprint any higher than it is right now. I turn off the water when I'm brushing my hair in the shower and the internet will make you think that it's a radical idea. It's not. Like a lot to mainstream trends on the Internet this content is so ableist. So many people have psoriasis or eczema or just really sensitive skin and just shouldn't/ cannot put all of these products on their skin that ultimately strip us of our oil barrier which useful from an immune system lens. Thank you for the conversation!
Also toxins, no one talks about the toxicity of these perfumed products! I watched a video where a toxicologist said that because of ALL these perfumed products woman's baby and a grandchild could have disabilities!
Wow this brought me back to college and i had a new roommate in college who had so many different bbw products from the sprays, shower gells and lotions. She would spray nearly 1/4th of a bottle of bbw body spray on her self every day and the room smelled worse the bbw store. I rarely could stay in there when she was getting ready with out choking on the smell as I am sensitive to strong smells and she wouldn't stop even after telling her.
The first vid reminded me of those song/chant things, you know, the twig on the branch, and the branch on the tree, and the tree in a hole, and the hole in the ground and the green grass grows all around all around and the green grass grows all around
11:20 i was with you until the toxic chemical stuff. Perfume ingredients are required to list components that are proven allergens. This whole endocrine disruptor business is honestly bs.
Same. As a skin care enthusiast, I'm all too familiar with that endocrine disruptor bs, especially with chemical sunscreens. It's a fearmongering pipeline at this point.
I wish I had this video as a teenager and felt shame about my body but didn't understand why it had to be this way. This is such a powerful message and video. You are so good at this and I thank you for the time, energy, and passion you share with us. Am going to check out a lot of the recourses you listed because I want to learn more. And am going to share this video with so many people.
As someone who has multiple skin conditions, I unfortunately have lots of different items to wash and moisturise with, howeverI stick to unscented stuff mostly because I’m sensitive to the fragrance stuff, plus it allows me to wear perfume because I don’t have 3 million scents going on!
i rarely leave any comments to videos i watch but i just couldn't resist it this time because YOU'RE SPITTING FACTS!! it's a great video and i really liked that you didn't just put all the blame on women who are overconsuming stuff but also explain why and how this happens, how women historically have been persuaded to get the unnecessary items for the males gaze, even ruining our health for its expense. i just wanna say thank you for this video, please take all my views cuz i gonna marathon through your content lol
Thank you for mentioning the “proprietary” undisclosed ingredients in fragrance and body care. I have severe allergies to synthetic fragrances (as well as essential oils) and I have no clue which chemicals cause my reactions…I only know that I have to avoid most brands of scented lotions and perfumes and axe and old spice. It’s important to be considerate of people with allergies when making the OPTIONAL CHOICE to wear scented products because when I’m stuck on the commuter train full of businessmen wearing musky deodorant and cologne, it triggers a severe migraine that lasts nearly all day, not to mention itching and hives! A family in like 2015 was trying to sue Axe because their son got hives in his throat or something from axe (imagine being a middle schooler in a locker room for gym class every day for one example) and they lost the lawsuit because axe’s formula is a secret. This is discrimination against disabled persons!!
I don't remember, "That's what girls do." But I do remember No Scret's doing a bop of a cover of Kids in America for the Jimmy Neutron movie ---- I may still listen to it to this day 😅
I'm a woman and hate showering 😅 basic shampoo, conditioner, body soap and face wash. If i have fo spend more than 10 minutes in the shower i am upset lol
Yeah...i went through this phase sadly, it only lasted 3 weeks but it was so tiring to do all that and 2 times a day 😩😩 and all the products you had to buy...all u need is fr a bar of soap, a scrub towel and some lotion which can cost a max of 5-10 bucks...no need for 50 bucks on products
Really appreciate your analysis! Especially the look back into history is so interesting and educating! I feel like the advertising tactics are fundamentally the same or at least similar today (artificially creating a consumer need through shame). They're just presented to us in a more covert way.
I've recently become aware of hyper-consumerism in the past months and how social media preys on the regular person to just keep buying no matter what. At school I live in a small dorm, and at home, I live in a small house, and seeing these influencer's shelves and shelves of sugar scrubs and lotions makes me feel extremely claustrophobic. Probs doesn't help that my mom was a hoarder too. But like, once you are "awake" to the consumerism and lies you are being told on the daily, it's hard to go back to sleep. Especially in this economy. I do love perfumes and scents, but I'm not buying anything new and trying to work through my rotation. If I'm gifted something--that's great! If there's a scent that i've been eyeing for a really really long time, I will get the small 1oz size if available. Makes more more sense to me space-wise and often price-wise I wasn't aware of hygiene being linked to race and class. That's just so messed up on so many levels. being clean with even just a bar of soap is something that can turn a bad day for me into a much better one.
And the ”level up your hygiene” tips are never actually useful, like use a tounge scraper or occasionally apply glycolic acid to your armpits/feet to get rid of dead skin cells and stay smell-free for longer. It’s always like “more scented products = more hygienic”. I hate it here.
These fragrance things are painful to watch as a migraine sufferer. These people must reek from all those fragrances piled together. It's just too much. I feel like I'd start getting a migraine if I was in the same room with one of these ladies & their perfumey stuff.
I really like that you went back and talked about the actual origin of why this is happening now, not many commentary channels look into the deeper issue like that :)
I like your thoughts about the intimate or internalized mindset behind personal care. I think because of that this content is so polarizing-people who need guidance (or children) latch onto it and people who are confident in their basic hygiene practices reject it. Also I feel like perfume specifically was once seen as something so intimate only your partner would be close enough to smell. You can smell these 200 step routine girlies from a mile away. And they're the worst people to sit next to at the movies or stand behind in a long line at the bank lol
As someone who extensively collects hygiene products, lemme give me two cents and share my story (yes there’s a story and for context, I’m 17 and a senior in high school. From when I was about 12-14 around pandemic time, I had horrible hygiene. I would be aware that I smelled but never did anything to really fix it. My mom even tried to take me to buy some products so I could start getting better at me own hygiene. Fast forward to my first year of high school and I’m get bullied horribly every day. Not because of hygiene but because people simply didn’t like me. So on Fridays we would have a half day and during the week my mom would give me $20 to do whatever I wanted with. So I would save up and I would go to the stores and pick up new hygiene products. To me, it felt like an outlet and it made me start taking better care of myself. Since I’d get bullied so badly at school, it felt like the one thing I was in control of and it genuinely made me smile. Fast forward to now and I have tons of perfumes and body care products and I take so much better care of myself. I tend to fall into depressive episodes like once a month and get lazy on my shower routines, so having all these products makes it easier for me to keep up with my hygiene. I’ve gotten so much better and get compliments often, so maybe it’s a dopamine rush for me
Meanwhile men are walking around with dingleberries
Yeses 😂
🤣😂 And I’m mad about
Smelling worse than ever
😭😭😭
then do the same??? literally no one is making you. cis girlies stop being obsessed with men for one second holy shit 😭😭😭😭 literally the only thing u think abt. besides men caring abt their looks gets them called incels. which do u want?
Ironic that this level of competitive overconsumption is portrayed as self love, in a way, when it's really teaching self-hatred at a very deep level.
I agree, something that is meant to look as self love in reality stems from lack of self acceptance.
so true
Omg this is the perfect comment. You are smart as fuck. Keep it up 🎉🎉
Absolutely! Smelling like a human being doesn't mean you are less than anyone else
Wow that is deep!
HATE the hygiene olympics. just shower with soap, use deodorant, brush and floss
your teeth. that’s it, that’s all you really need to do
The virtue signaling in hygiene probably really started in victorian era england. The almond mom thing also started around that time btw
like congratulations you probably have given yourself excema from all the synthetic fragrance and coloring
Most people don't do even that much lol. Also idk the obsession with a 10 step bath routine while avoiding washing your hair or body as long as you can. Maybe shower regularly and you wouldn't need all this shit.
@@buzzfeedhater … which one are people mod doing?? Floss?
I would agree if it were true. There's alot of people who DO that and still smell funky
The first tiktok got so confusing after 5 seconds. Who in the world has time for all this. I feel theres too much choice in this world, its maddening
Yes! I never take the time to use that amount of stuff. When I want to take a longer shower, i just stand under the running water for a longer time, relaxing, just standing. NOT SCRUBBING MYSELF WITH 10 DIFFERENT SOAPS. This is really crazy to me.
Wtf does 'be glowy' even mean too?
Yeah I lost her after the first three.
Looks like she was making fun of the tiktokers who do that
@@Cel-xq6ppwell she was pointing to a body oil. Using a butter or oil is emollient, or greasy. That’s going for shiny skin. Glowy is broader and might mean that, or bronzey/tan
My eczema flared up just watching some of these, holy fragrance
Yes. Scratch scratch scratch scratch. AND my asthma.
Same. Smh.
RIGHT?!!!!
@@thisperson5294 glad I’m not the only person who’s asthma flares along with my eczema and those tik toks would have me wheezing and itching
My dermatitis did too! My hands burn looking at those shelves😭😭
showertok? hygiene influencers? what are we even doing anymore 😭
We’ve lost the plot 😭
We are living in idiocracy. 🙂
@@ClarkyWarky good ass movie
Knowing what shampoo and bodywashes are good and what cleansers to use for the downstairs area, these are helpful information (some people don't have families or friend to help them out), these hygiene influencers aren't all that bad. It's when, as with all influencers, when they encourage and glorify overconsumption that becomes a problem.
@@msk-qp6fn You can take your dermatologists' information for that if you need it or do your own research online. Nobody needs hygiene influencers
You cannot convince me that these people don’t have a shopping addiction and/ or compulsive behaviors. All of that is just crazy and so unnecessary
Yet here I am with my one bar of soap, one bar of shampoo, one bottle of basic lotion, one deodorant (all unscented) and one toothpaste tube, still alive and perfectly clean.
And healthier, for sure!
I agree with the healthier thing too, putting product on top of product on top of more product every day ain’t healthy for you in any way lol
Where do you find unscented deodorant and lotion pls
@@p0t.n00dle4 Nuud is a good deodorant! I've been using it for more than a year already. It's unscented
@@p0t.n00dle4 Dove makes an unscented deodorant, and a local company (The Unscented Company) makes incredible soaps, lotions, and bar shampoo and conditionners. I'm in Qc, Canada.
All this overconsumption is us trying to fill a void with things, or smelling good, or whatever. It’s sad. It’s a sign we are severely lacking true meaning and purpose in our lives that we feel the need to buy so many things.
Yes. 😢
Yep, people are trying to find the "right thing" to do, but it's never there
Right! Overconsumption is overcompensating for a void that, if given the attention IT needs, can be rectified.
yes this is what addiction does . Temp fills a void and creates dependence on more and more.
Yesss. That’s also what ppl w fragrance addiction have. A void they trying to fill
Dove soap trend seems funny to me. Like, it's just a basic soap, not the best, not the worst. From what time it became a synonym to cleanliness and femininity? Marketing strategy success, indeed.
I can't use Dove soap. It makes me smell horrible and stinky. No other soap does that to me thankfully. I have been using mildly scented and unscented soaps of other brands and they work just fine.
@@kaylawaters2691 I obviously don’t know but my first thought is that maybe it’s your own smell. Yk since dove isn’t actually a “soap,” as in a surfactant, it’s a “beauty bar” in solid form and “body wash” in liquid form. They focus on the non stripping (and, therefore, often not as cleansing) aspect of body cleaning. But again idk and maybe you use other moisturizing cleansing products that work well.
Right up there with Dawn Dish Soap in all the cleaning videos. Dawn is super normal.
Their whole body positive push helped. It was genius.
@@kikialeaki1850 from what I've tried, Dove really is the best, the one with argan oil is my favourite.
I told my husband "I wish (down there) naturally smelled like lavender" and my husband said "I don't cause then it would taste like soap"
Tea! He on to something 👏🏾
😂
🤣🤣🤣
Winning
FACTSS
The first 40 secs pissed me off 🤦🏾♀️😂
i was geeked at the lotion being last 😂 and after the oil???
@@mjb6839Exactly
@@mjb6839the rule is usually thinest to thickest when layering products, so it actually makes sense. The lotion would lock in the oil.
@@mjb6839Real I hate when people moisturize after using oil. 😭
One of the things that annoy me the most is the fact that they made almost every woman believe that sugar scrubs are necessary. The point of the scrubs are to exfoliate right? Well, you can literally do that with a product that doesn't run out. Like exfoliating gloves, exfoliating bath gloves, those long brushes that you can use to wash your back (if it's soft and hard enough at the same time, you can use it on anywhere). Like you can use these for a really long time before you need to replace them. Why buy sugar scrubs that you will need to re-buy every 4 to 5 showers? Their scents are not even permanent. It's literally a cash grab.
Yep, I'm Ghanaian and my net sponge exfoliates my skin perfectly well and costs less than a dollar here. I can use it for months until I am ready to get a new one
Also u can just buy sugar and mix it with a cheap lotion or oil for slip, that's what I do. Whole bag of sugar lasts months.
I tried a rose scented tree hut sugar scrub once when I had trouble getting dead skin cells and oil off from my nooks and crannies during summer of 2024. It did make my skin smoother and made me feel more refreshed cuz duh, but it was utterly useless at getting rid of the dead skin cell and oil build ups here and there on my body. Plain ass bar soap (not even Dove, don't even recall the brand) did a waaay better job. Currently I use an olive oil soap bar and/or Aveeno bodywash with a wash cloth, and they do their job perfectly.
I can’t use any of those products due to sensory issues, so I like the tree hut scrubs for the easy use and nice scents and feeling. I see no harm in picking them up and they make my skin nice too!
You can also just use sugar in your kitchen. I take some sugar put it in a bowl and mix in my conditioner. Tada sugar scrub
Bottle out, bottle in friends and I cut the bottle open to scoop out what's left. A LOT of product gets tossed when you "think" it's empty. You don't need 5 of every type of thing and deodorant goes a long way in smelling nice, but not too strong. I used to overshop, but now I focus on getting bargains on my go to products, one refill at a time. Thank you for these de-influencing videos. We need them out here.
I got a cosmetics spatula. I also have to carry a lot of stuff on my person due to allergies. As a result I started putting things in travel containers. I also was way too old when I had the revelation that I can chance packing if I hate. I get lots of use getting products out and changing containers.
I don’t overshop, but it feels like I can’t just buy one item at a time! With all the deals and free gifts etc, I get so much product that I only need shop for beauty stuff every few months.
@@marynorton6068 I feel this in my soul. I wish I could mix and match for similar sales. I think I ended up with 5 bottles of the same makeup remover to get the sale then to use a coupon. I did actually use 3 bottles. I gave two away as gifts. I made a couple friends custom makeup kits. There was nothing else I wanted from the brand. At least I could take off sunscreen.
I once got almost a full month’s extra use out of a body lotion I thought was empty when I cut open the pump bottle!
I’ll usually take a small spatula and scrape the last bits into smaller jars (from other old beauty products I’ve used up and cleaned out) to keep it airtight and fresh for sometimes a full month, while still easily being able to get the last bit out with my fingers.
Another benefit of doing this is that having the packaging cut open and fully emptied makes it so much easier to clean and recycle it. Always check your local recycling rules for how to go about it but in general plastic packaging needs to be pretty clean to be recycled properly.
Literally been using the same products for 4 months I just buy the biggest size on sale and use it up for half a year until the next sale I can’t throw something out until I use everything like wipe it clean I’m going on my second sale shopping on the weekend.
I can’t believe there is a such thing as a “hygiene influencer.” Take a shower, brush your teeth. Wash your hair…what more is there to say? It is such a grift to be making money off telling people how to do something that is so basic to literally every adult lmfao.
💯 Basically. Wash your hair, body,and teeth like a grown up.
That's all it takes.
You want to be simply clean and that’s final but some people want to be clean AND smell good and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that until it gets to a point of overconsumption.. smelling good also just helps with being confident. I don’t understand y’all in the comments
It's honestly more perfume influencing. It's all about smelling nice like flowers and fruits and layering scents, rather than being clean and healthy.
Exactly like what are they even doing? Anyone is an "influencer" nowadays
@@user-gq6nq7fi9wi’ve seen a lot of hygiene influencers who say “if you wanna be clean/have better hygiene you NEED these things, and then they show body scrubs, body oils, body butter, perfume, body mist, and lotions. nobody needs all of that to be clean and smell good. all you need is soap, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, lotion, and a body mist or perfume if you want it. it’s all unnecessary and just to promote overconsumption by utilizing women’s insecurities
I grew out of "love spell" as I got older but we still have a bottle with some left so we use it as a bathroom spray now LOL takes me back everytime i poop
Same story
I have it at mums house in Bulgaria.
i worked at vs for a while and that smell is embedded in my dna probably. at home we also used it in the bathroom to kill flies or mosquitos 😭
😂😂😂
I found the more scented products I use to smell good actually makes me smell worse throughout the day especially when I sweat. I’ve opted into mostly unscented and fragrance free products and one good long lasting perfume.
I agree; most times at the end of the day, especially if I spray my skin with fragrance, it smells really chemically on me. which fragrance free products do you use? so far, dr bronners baby scent has me fresh all day
legit all it does is smell like body odor with perfume on top! i realised long ago that its more important to eat healthy/get proper nutrients and use antibacterial soap layered with unscented lotion/raw shea butter. its way worse to rely on scents from body wash/butter that either leave residue on your skin or clothing which clashes with your laundry detergent etc
that's not how it works for most people. Unless whatever you use has cheep oils in them, so they oxidize on you during the day and change their smell.
@@6fenfen shes right though. scented products on a sweaty body smells bad. better to forego them and jump in the shower instead.
@@gardeniainbloom812that happens if you don't clean your body before adding scented products. A washcloth helps
These people are so weird because soap, deodorant and moisturizer is literally ALL you need to be clean and smell it
You don't need moisturizer unless your skin feels dry.
@@Aixopluc_bcn moisturizers are great
maybe because some people are just into smelling like a bakery???
@@sk111amamand that means you should buy into every scented product? think people, think.
@@Aixopluc_bcn it'll feel dry if you don't moisturize everyday. Especially during the winter.
@8:23 I used scented pads one time and omg they made me smell absolutely disgusting 😭 anything scented down there is only going to cause problems
Yep, and I can only use 100% cotton pads. Otherwise, I get a painful burning rash down there 😢
Hopefully you’re talking about yourself in the latter part cuz they were fine for me🤷♀️
@@kikialeaki1850 Overall, dermatiologists worldwide don't recommend scented pads, so even if you don't have problems it's best to give it a search :)
Edit: Sorry, dermatologists AND gynecologists* don't recommend it
Yeah ur body cleans itself down their with this white fluid thingy (don’t know the English name)
@@tuanaatav discharge
0:23 seconds in gosh i miss the days before this era 🥲 being a youtuber was rare and fun and everyone was more unique with their own imputs and style when photography vlogs and hauls were a art and everything wasnt so overly pushed and available 😢 life seemed so much more easy going and real back then ...
that intro video pissed me off
So freaking annoying!!
She made me anxious.
😭😭😭
Saaaaaaaame
My anger grew rapidly
I really started cutting back 2 years ago. I love things that smell good so I was just blindly buying. Then I sat back and saw how many soaps, lotions, oils and butters I had and I realized I had a problem. I like bulk buying too so I'm learning to buy my bulk and USE it up BEFORE I purchase anything else..my stash is getting smaller and smaller #progress
Same. I'm starting to feel relieve when I use up a product.
Same, and I went through this years ago. Now I have a select few products, most unscented anyway 😂
I need to preface this by saying I have severe depression, but the skincare, body routine became so overwhelming I gave up and began neglecting my hygiene health bc of how overwhelming all this shit began to be
Shout out to my cetaphil body wash and lubriderm lotion. You’ve never done me wrong.
Amen
Except when they change the freaking formula in the lotion
Don’t forget Vaseline 🙌🏽
@@evaphillips2102 Vaseline is for me. Everything else makes me itchy and break out in rashes.
Aveeno bodywashes are great too
I have asthma and a lot of sensitivities to scents, so these girlies are literally ruining my ability to be in public, even at work in an office 💀
I love pretty scents as much as the next person but I try to be mindful of people with allergies/asthma/sensory issues-like if you need to douse yourself in it then maybe see a doctor-
I feel you! I have sensitive skin and so sensitive to smells and those scents actually can give me a rash, just by being around it and also make me feel incredibly nauseous
@ same! I love scented candles, diffusers, but I just make sure the ingredients are high quality and “natural” and use perfume sometimes but it’s very light and not irritating and only if someone is close to me can they smell it.
I feel you heavy. So many people just put on WAY too much perfume and it gives me a headache.
I'm the same way, and it's so frustrating to try and explain that to people sometimes
I can't wait for us to graduate from the thought that bodies shouldn't stink. Smells can be identifiable for diseases, and as long as you're washing regularly then you should be fine. I do like Body Mists and a scent soap, but nice smells are nice.
edit: Your vag is supposed to smell musky. It's normal and a sign it's doing well. Don't stick soap up there.
Seriously about vaginas. It’s literally a hole that leads directly to an internal organ that creates a bunch of excess lining that sheds every month and people think it should smell like flowers or something. It’s going to smell like.. a body part that does a bunch of things
PREACH 🗣️🗣️🗣️
What's crazy is some people like natural body smells, it's one thing to stink and just not being clean but to lather yourself in chemicals to smell a certain way is INSANE. Literally just a trend based on performancism and status
@dabriaaspen7343
I love scented perfumes, soaps and body sprays. I have one body wash and six body sprays lol. (I buy the B3G3 at Bath and Body works but that's it.)
Right as long as your lady parts don’t smell rancid like fish, or copper (which could be a sign of infection or BV) then you’re fine if you smell sweaty because your body sweats. Generally hot water is enough and mild soap on the outside. However your bum definitely needs cleaning considering what it does but a mild soap is plenty.
@@dabriaaspen7343 I learned late in life I’m one of those people who’s body doesn’t naturally produce a BO I can smell like sweat due but it doesn’t have a smell, however deodorant actually makes me smell really bad for some reason and so does certain foods but outside of that I can go without
I'm autistic and perfumes/colognes have been one of my special interests since I can remember. I mostly collect tiny samples rather than full bottles that I'm never going to finish, and share the whole collection with friends and family. I love fragrances, and I especially love a curated collection over a department store display.
As a special interest that's totally fine.
I also enjoy my collection of perfumes and enjoy wearing them, but it is for ME. Sad that there is this consumerism push on scent as a moral high ground.
Yes, my sister does that. Cute and smell waaayyyy better than the bigger bottles.
@@MistyPremium do you have a favorite in your collection? :)
i only recently started getting into fragrance last year (AuDHD!!)… before, the only *perfume* perfume i would wear was taylor swift’s wonderstruck enchanted since it makes me nostalgic; besides that it would be just B&BW body sprays
what kickstarted it was oakcha’s dupe for tom ford’s “lost cherry” perfume!! i think the only full-size bottles i’ve bought upfront were from oakcha (60 mL for under $100 but super strong and lasts a while)-i usually get travel sizes from a brand or decants from third party sites.
literally a couple weeks ago was the first time i got a full-size bottle from a non-dupe fragrance house… commodity’s “milk,” and literally only got the 100 mL bottle because i used up my travel size a while ago and sephora has a deal where you can get a bunch of 1 mL samplers for $88 and exchange the coupon in for one full-size bottle. FREE… my favorite fragrance so there was zero chance i would pass on that-plus a lot of the other scents are really nice and my mom has taken a bunch loo
i think i’m good on new fragrances for now because i do have a lot, but there is just a certain feeling i get (autistic-specific excitement lol) when i smell my favorite fragrances (B&BW’s “brown sugar fig,” commodity “milk,” oakcha dupe of TF’s “bitter peach,” etc.), so i’ll personally keep wearing fragrances for that reason and not hygiene reasons lol 🤣
C’est marrant de voir à quel point les hommes ce sentent concernés au sujet de notre hygiène intime quand ils ne sont pas capable d’en faire autant pour eux … 🤯🤡
Trust me, men are starting to fall into the trap as well. Yes, we should try our hardest to stay clean, but it seems like everyone of every gender is overconsuming.
@@cassidyszewczyk5029 they started to shave their intimate parts. I don't like that.
Hahaha so true. Most don't even wash under their balls
😂 it’s true
As a female lemme say this, I like two in one shampoos (shampoo+conditioner) and bodywashes(bodywash+shampoo) that are often only for men and kids. Less clunk and less money spent.
This makes me feel so much better. I have chronic eczema and I used to feel so sad that I couldn't use scented products and 'smell feminine' all the time.
For my health I can only use very basic soaps and such.
Can u exofilate?
@RelicReaderNot really to be honest. I can only use mild cleansers.
The Lysol douche ads, aside from just calling women stinky if they didn’t spray disinfectant on their insides, were also trying to market it as a birth control method without outright saying it.
Came here to say this. "Feminine hygiene" was a euphemism for birth control because it was illegal to advertise. Lysol was used as a spermicide.
How funky is your chicken if you need to use a dozen products in the shower? 🐔
I laughed so hard at this comment .😂😂😂
im screaming!!!!
Being clean is a good thing, but ngl as someone who gets headaches from scents, this just looks like not only a sensory nightmare, but a migraine and a half waiting to happen.
Yes! And and sometimes people forget that some are also allergic to scents or have eczema and can’t use those products
Girl , I have always portrayed smelling good / trendy as a cool girl aspect . My brain automatically drew the conclusion that if you smell good - you will be liked by your peers . I clicked on this video on accident , but seriously you opened my eyes . Although, I knew about the concept of purity for women ,I never knew how much it impacted my life .
Thank you for this video ❤ keep doing what you do , the more you post the more eyes will be opened ❤
I had a moment where I tried to have a series of "routines." Coconut routine, vanilla routine, pineapple routine, etc. I was so overwhelmed by what I had that I ended up giving it all away and now use Dove shea butter body wash, a moisturizer, and call it done. I think some women are insecure and some are trying to show off that they can buy all this crap. I think many of them don't necessarily have the disposable income but are sacrificing experiences they could be having or a savings account to have a billion body scrubs they're going to have to throw away when they can't use them all before they expire.
Even when you have the disposable income this is still too much
@evaphillips2102 absolutely agree. It's ridiculous.
0:33 Exfoliating that often isn't good for skin. 1-2 times per week is enough. You're not getting any cleaner because you're scrubbing your skin away.
Even that is too much, like once or twice a fortnight
I do it like once a month I’m not even joking
@@rovilan acid exfoliation they usually recommend 1 (max 2) time(s) per week.
@@Biggiecheeseness If that works for you, great! I've neglected my skin lately, so now my nose has dark sebaceous filaments :( gotta get back to my routine.. exfoliation with my acids included.
All of them are having 'sensitive' skin after scrubbing every dan.
Once you said "Victoria's Secret Perfume Set" I KNEW Love Spell was coming up quick 😂
I’m actively using up my products and only repurchasing things I LOVE!!!
The irony of spending so much money and using so many products to try to smell good, when using all of them is what makes you smell horrible. Whenever I pass anyone wearing so much fake scent, either one or multiple layered, it makes me gag it smells so bad. Like you said at the end of the video, it's inconsiderate of others, especially people who have reactions to those products
It never smells good when people wear a lot of fragrance. They smell like chemicals. Less is always more
I have a gel,bodylotion and deodorant with the same scent will it bother other people ? I only use those 3
@milky8471 probably not! I think it's more about amount, you know? Like if you were covering yourself head to toe with the lotion it might, but just using those a normal amount is probably not going to bother people
it's horrifying to me that as women we aren't considered clean or hygienic unless we smell like fucking flowers or something. like just showering and using deodorant is ENOUGH. you don't have to always be wearing perfume and use 7 scrubs so you smell like a cake. it's so unnecessary and every time i bring it up around people they always say "well no one wants being in public to smell like a barn" as if the only two options are having no personal hygiene or using 50 scented products. just use SOAP.
NO ONE SAID U HAVE TO SMELL LIKE FLOWERS. no one either said its gross to just use a bar soap. unless u smell like ass, no one said u arent clean or hygenic.
@@sk111amam
LMAO 😂
There is nothing wrong with the basic shower: shampoo, conditioner & body wash..We don’t need 10 products 😭
1:19 if u wanna be broke use ALL THIS
😂😂😂😂😂
#DEAD!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Honestly
My wake up call was the clutter, and the expired product. By the time I got around to using a particular lotion, it already expired. And that’s when I only got something new as a replacement
my sensitive skin could never 😅
My sensitive and dry skin saved me a lot of money, because I just can't use all these lotions and shower gels. Even the look on these gels makes my skin dry 😁
Same.
I got eczema, I relate. Also my nose. My poor poor nose. I cannot with those fragrances 😢
then dont?
Same
It’s interesting that Lysol was used in that way. Obviously we wouldn’t do something so toxic today. But it makes me wonder how many of the cheaply made products people overconsume today have ingredients that one day will be shown to be bad for us.
There are so many that are already shown to be terrible for us but they're still constantly showing up in our food, makeup, and body/skincare
I wish I had known all this as a teenager, I felt so self-conscious that I couldn't afford all these beauty and hygiene products
Thank you for this video. I am so tired of this constant barrage of Native and Lume all-body deodorant ads that are infecting social media. I even got a freaking Lume ad on this video! I just want to scream at my TV "Women are allowed to smell!"
Those ads for Lysol????? Oh my gosh I had no idea. That's true cringe right there.
If you want to damage your skin, use this this this this this and this. Please don’t exfoliate or scrub every day. Once again it’s American trying to tell people that you need a 10 products steps just to shower.
Growing up I instantly knew my mum was my mum from her natural scent and eventually ONE certain perfume she wore everyday. These babies gonna be so confused smelling all these different scents I could only imagine it’ll be overstimulating for these poor children 😢
I'm about to give birth to my second child and like with my first, the hospital specifically recommends getting non scented lotions and soaps for the postpartum period because the scent is so important for bonding.
aww can you imagine.poor babies. whats funny to me is the natural smell is the cleanest healthier smell than anything synthetic.
same literally! she wears thr exact one i KNOW its her
I work in class action law, normally in lawsuits, but for Flint, there was a program we helped with paperwork processing for. We helped families on SNAP and other government programs get sent clean water. It was very far from enough. Seeing everything Flint was going through from that lens, on such a personal level, it was heartbreaking.
I love my career because I help people get some level of justice from companies and employers who are breaking laws, but sometimes it can weigh heavy on my heart to see the aftermath of the events that caused a need for lawsuits.
I also am studying law to help with these things ❤ thank you so much for the work and inspiration you do
I was a bath and body works girl in middle school and some of high school but then I learned that they test on animals and that their products are loaded with toxic chemicals. Everything I purchase now is about ingredient quality and ensuring it's cruelty free. Body scrubs can be DIYed super easily as well, or you can use a reusable physical alternative that lasts longer and is much more affordable.
Me watching this in the bathroom as I wash up with my unscented dove bar soap 😂 the shower and hygiene routines I see (like the scene with Sydney Sweeney in euphoria) are so overwhelming!! Also when I’m out in public I feel sick when someone near me is wearing a lot of fragrance 😭 ladies we don’t need all of this!!!!
The amount of “Influence” they have over teens is scary. These young girls come into Sephora and spend money on products they don’t need.
My mom bought me douche when I had my first period. She was obsessed with hygiene. Top that with my first husband telling me my downstairs stunk when I left him, and I'm still trying to have a healthy relationship with myself.
that’s horrible i hope you’re doing better now!!
I agree with this. For me, I like to smell good and I got a little obsessed with it as I got older. Also, I live in the tropics, so at least being fresh and not smelling sweaty is desirable.
However, shelves upon shelves of products is overdoing it.
Ugh it's the cleanliness olympics back at it again with people who will tell you that you're dirty if you don't rip off all your skin and grow all new skin overnight.
And they are also calling people who dont double cleanse, use a washcloth and exfoliate five time a week and shower twice a day dirty💀 once i commented that i shower once a day and not use body wash every day when i havent been sweating, and that i only use soap under arms and private area and feet every day. They said ”green aura with flies” or something like that. And that they know i smell…
I'm trying to not waste water, and showering less.
As someone who grew up not being taught the importance of hygiene, and in 9 grade when I did, struggled to take showers regularly and consistently, I can not imagine doing this. At any point in my life.
As a minimalist and someone who is very sensitive to lots of scents and artificial ingredients this is all a nope to me. I use one organic coconut oil soap, one shampoo and conditioner, one organic body butter that has literally 4 ingredients in it and a natural deodorant. That’s it for body care. Oh and toothpaste. Let me add, the cleaner you eat, the less body odor you will have. I’m a healthcare provider and this is something I learned in nutrition class. I find it to be true. The less fast food, sugar, sodas, and just plain junk that I eat and the more whole fruits and vegetables I eat as well as drinking lots of water make a big difference in how I smell.
NO CUZ THIS IS SO TRUE. What you're ingesting IN your body matters more than what you put on it, same can be said for skincare, like if u eat healthy your skin will be healthy, relying too much on products and spending to fix your issues only creates another problem
Just looking at all that unnecessary single use plastic 😢
These influencers leave out the fact that you have skin microbiome and all the products are stripping their skin of the healthy bacteria. And yes, all the endocrine disrupters are affecting fertility
Excess cleanliness equals dry skin and contact dermatitis
A couple years ago I finally threw out my collection of body washes, gels, and scrubs, some of which I had kept for at least 8-10 YEARS. Some were 1/4 to 1/2 full, others almost completely full. I felt so guilty that I didn't use them all up that I couldn't throw them out. I was finally able to let go when I moved to a different part of the country and it was just cumbersome to keep them. I now have one perfume I wear on special occasions and one each unscented body wash and deoderant. Such a waste of money and mental energy!
Ashley's research always astounds me, so well done and well presented every time!
I agree.
If I'm walking down the street and get a massive whiff of your perfume, it just reminds me of my grandmother drowning herself in Avon body spray and just screams tacky to me.
Speak for yourself I love a good whiff of something nice.
@@evaphillips2102 I mean sometimes it’s not a whiff more like a slap..by a whale
I have strong smells as one of my main migraine triggers and this whole trend has been hell I'm not even exaggerating. Some people will have SO MUCH scent on them that it will make me have to fight the urge to gag and trigger a migraine.
Also as someone who had gender studies as one of their majors, I absolutely LOVED your analysis of the gendered element of this issue. Furthermore, I loved hearing your breakdown of the racial component as well, since I had some knowledge of topics you discussed through my two majors (gender studies and political science) but not as in depth as you explained it and it was just so fascinating. The class component as well! I remember being young and learning from my dad that a large percentage of low-income housing still have lead pipes; I asked my dad why nothing was done about this and he told me about how the government doesn't really care or pay attention to the lower class. That was a moment I will never forget and is one of the moments I point to as informing my sociopolitical views.
I just really enjoyed this video and can't even write a long enough comment to convey this but it was just so amazing.
And here I am feeling like an excessive shopper with 3 or 4 of everything on the go...😂 Some of these bathroom shelves are actually obscene
If I have extra to spend, I'll 100% stock up on my products that last forever when they go on sale or are always in short supply. Plus them changing up formulas randomly also makrs me paranoid when I finally find something that my skin finally actually likes. 😅
@@Bunn.Boh same! I have a back up of my favs at all times. I live in a big city so I have to anticipate my restocks to save money.
As a woman, idk why women get upset with me for telling them that the best way to smell good is to track how your body responds to different foods and go with what makes your body feel radiant. Why do women get upset with me for saying this?
I imagine it's similar to the reaction I get when I say that I think plastic surgery for a purely cosmetic reason is harmful.
i have to admit, im unlearning my overconsumption habits. im in college and living at home with my parents and have a really bad shopping habit. i love watching your videos to deinfluence myself from constantly spending my hard earned money on meaningless hygiene products. since i was a little girl, i was always terrified of smelling bad, thinking it would make me less worthy, make people not want to be around me or think i was dirty or gross. i now realize i have a very very deep insecurity because of this fear growing up. thank you for making this video to further open my eyes to understanding how priveleged i am to be able to afford these things, and i will be a lot more mindful from here on out. i feel so guilty now looking at my huge perfume and body lotion collection, but i am going to focus on using what i have and not buying any more.
i also tend to resort to buying stuff when im sad or depressed (which is alot) and i will have to learn how to fill my cup with another activity that can give me the same rush that shopping does. i honestly feel disgusted with myself and my habits. i wish i had someone to tell me to stop when i was ahead, but im glad i realize it now. i barely have any savings and am in credit card debt because of these bad habits ive built for myself, i need to work on getting out of it.
I work at an ulta and just seeing the staggering amount of unnecesaary scrubs, butters, oils, and sprays people obsess over is jarring. Even the people I work with are outraged that they smell a little after a long truck shift, when it's normal.
I just found your channel the other day. I just want to say, I love your videos so much. You're so inspiring!
I would actually be embarrassed to say I gotta use so many products to smell good lmao, they way they think it’s a flex it’s crazy
I love bath and body stuff, but some people go overboard and it's scent overload.
True 😮
😅 I always found it so funny that people of African descent were given that unhygienic stereotype. Meanwhile, the Europeans were not bathing until 19th century. Native Americans claimed, they could identify them by their stench 😅. I don't think Black folks have to prove that clean thing anymore 🧼
it has always been projection!!
People do have their own odor. Parents can identify their children based on their odor. Body odor, and stink aren't the same thing. This natural scent is why perfumes and colognes don't always work on people.
europeans did bathe.
@vvitch-mist20 of course. everyone and everything has an odor. Even the dead
@HoneySnowflake
Yeah and if someone is alive and smells like a corpse the body wash haul isn't gonna fix that.
There aint any time in the world to finish up these shelves of products before their expiry date. It's ridiculous
THANK YOU for this video because most normal people don't buy a shit ton of hygiene products every week. Because it's NOT realistic.
I will watch them if I want something new to try, but at the same time, a lot of the products are overrated and not affordable.
Example: vanilla girl hauls... NO ONE is going to use multiple products that all smell like vanilla? it's over kill.
You can smell nice but not buy 10+ products to do so.
Everytime I comment on these youtube videos which normally are targeted towards naive young kids, I am told that I am "jealous" when that's not the case???
I have TWO body washes and while I don't really like their scent, I STILL use them because I'm not going to just buy 5 body washes because it's SO unrealistic.
In my early 20s I used Summers Eve wash. I fell for the whole "smelling good" thing. Turns out when you use that stuff consistently, it burns.
I’m so glad you brought up allergies because I’ve had such bad responses when I’ve spoken up about it. People say anything from you can’t expect others to cater to you, to I don’t care I want to smell good. I have rosacea so my skin starts to burn and turn red and itchy when I’m around strong fragrances. Sucks that people are so inconsiderate
As usual I really enjoyed your video. This type of content is so problematic for all the reasons you mentioned. Performing beauty to this extreme is so tired, I have other things to do and I'm not trying to increase my carbon footprint any higher than it is right now. I turn off the water when I'm brushing my hair in the shower and the internet will make you think that it's a radical idea. It's not. Like a lot to mainstream trends on the Internet this content is so ableist. So many people have psoriasis or eczema or just really sensitive skin and just shouldn't/ cannot put all of these products on their skin that ultimately strip us of our oil barrier which useful from an immune system lens. Thank you for the conversation!
Also toxins, no one talks about the toxicity of these perfumed products! I watched a video where a toxicologist said that because of ALL these perfumed products woman's baby and a grandchild could have disabilities!
the way I said “love spell” out loud at the same time as you, i just knew 0:53
Lmao same 😂
Love spell stank after gym
i lit love “love spell”it’s so YUMMM
Me too 😂
Wow this brought me back to college and i had a new roommate in college who had so many different bbw products from the sprays, shower gells and lotions. She would spray nearly 1/4th of a bottle of bbw body spray on her self every day and the room smelled worse the bbw store. I rarely could stay in there when she was getting ready with out choking on the smell as I am sensitive to strong smells and she wouldn't stop even after telling her.
The first vid reminded me of those song/chant things, you know, the twig on the branch, and the branch on the tree, and the tree in a hole, and the hole in the ground and the green grass grows all around all around and the green grass grows all around
11:20 i was with you until the toxic chemical stuff. Perfume ingredients are required to list components that are proven allergens. This whole endocrine disruptor business is honestly bs.
Same. As a skin care enthusiast, I'm all too familiar with that endocrine disruptor bs, especially with chemical sunscreens. It's a fearmongering pipeline at this point.
yes exactly! lab muffin beauty breaks down clean beauty in a scientific and easily understandable way!
I wish I had this video as a teenager and felt shame about my body but didn't understand why it had to be this way. This is such a powerful message and video. You are so good at this and I thank you for the time, energy, and passion you share with us. Am going to check out a lot of the recourses you listed because I want to learn more. And am going to share this video with so many people.
As someone who has multiple skin conditions, I unfortunately have lots of different items to wash and moisturise with, howeverI stick to unscented stuff mostly because I’m sensitive to the fragrance stuff, plus it allows me to wear perfume because I don’t have 3 million scents going on!
This is such a well made video bringing up some amazing points I have never even thought of. Thank you for making this its life changing.
i rarely leave any comments to videos i watch but i just couldn't resist it this time because YOU'RE SPITTING FACTS!! it's a great video and i really liked that you didn't just put all the blame on women who are overconsuming stuff but also explain why and how this happens, how women historically have been persuaded to get the unnecessary items for the males gaze, even ruining our health for its expense. i just wanna say thank you for this video, please take all my views cuz i gonna marathon through your content lol
Thank you for mentioning the “proprietary” undisclosed ingredients in fragrance and body care. I have severe allergies to synthetic fragrances (as well as essential oils) and I have no clue which chemicals cause my reactions…I only know that I have to avoid most brands of scented lotions and perfumes and axe and old spice. It’s important to be considerate of people with allergies when making the OPTIONAL CHOICE to wear scented products because when I’m stuck on the commuter train full of businessmen wearing musky deodorant and cologne, it triggers a severe migraine that lasts nearly all day, not to mention itching and hives! A family in like 2015 was trying to sue Axe because their son got hives in his throat or something from axe (imagine being a middle schooler in a locker room for gym class every day for one example) and they lost the lawsuit because axe’s formula is a secret. This is discrimination against disabled persons!!
I don't remember, "That's what girls do." But I do remember No Scret's doing a bop of a cover of Kids in America for the Jimmy Neutron movie ---- I may still listen to it to this day 😅
Personally, i love b&bw but there is no need to have a whole book shelf worth of perfumes/lotions/shower gel/body scrub
I'm a woman and hate showering 😅 basic shampoo, conditioner, body soap and face wash. If i have fo spend more than 10 minutes in the shower i am upset lol
Fr showering is so tyring and time consuming
I do love a long hot bath or shower, but that is mostly because it reminds me of swimming.
well thats your problem
Yeah...i went through this phase sadly, it only lasted 3 weeks but it was so tiring to do all that and 2 times a day 😩😩 and all the products you had to buy...all u need is fr a bar of soap, a scrub towel and some lotion which can cost a max of 5-10 bucks...no need for 50 bucks on products
Listen… I don’t buy anything new until I finish the bottle/jar
Really appreciate your analysis! Especially the look back into history is so interesting and educating! I feel like the advertising tactics are fundamentally the same or at least similar today (artificially creating a consumer need through shame). They're just presented to us in a more covert way.
I've recently become aware of hyper-consumerism in the past months and how social media preys on the regular person to just keep buying no matter what. At school I live in a small dorm, and at home, I live in a small house, and seeing these influencer's shelves and shelves of sugar scrubs and lotions makes me feel extremely claustrophobic. Probs doesn't help that my mom was a hoarder too. But like, once you are "awake" to the consumerism and lies you are being told on the daily, it's hard to go back to sleep. Especially in this economy.
I do love perfumes and scents, but I'm not buying anything new and trying to work through my rotation. If I'm gifted something--that's great! If there's a scent that i've been eyeing for a really really long time, I will get the small 1oz size if available. Makes more more sense to me space-wise and often price-wise
I wasn't aware of hygiene being linked to race and class. That's just so messed up on so many levels. being clean with even just a bar of soap is something that can turn a bad day for me into a much better one.
And the ”level up your hygiene” tips are never actually useful, like use a tounge scraper or occasionally apply glycolic acid to your armpits/feet to get rid of dead skin cells and stay smell-free for longer. It’s always like “more scented products = more hygienic”. I hate it here.
These fragrance things are painful to watch as a migraine sufferer. These people must reek from all those fragrances piled together. It's just too much. I feel like I'd start getting a migraine if I was in the same room with one of these ladies & their perfumey stuff.
I really like that you went back and talked about the actual origin of why this is happening now, not many commentary channels look into the deeper issue like that :)
I like your thoughts about the intimate or internalized mindset behind personal care. I think because of that this content is so polarizing-people who need guidance (or children) latch onto it and people who are confident in their basic hygiene practices reject it. Also I feel like perfume specifically was once seen as something so intimate only your partner would be close enough to smell. You can smell these 200 step routine girlies from a mile away. And they're the worst people to sit next to at the movies or stand behind in a long line at the bank lol
As someone who extensively collects hygiene products, lemme give me two cents and share my story (yes there’s a story and for context, I’m 17 and a senior in high school.
From when I was about 12-14 around pandemic time, I had horrible hygiene. I would be aware that I smelled but never did anything to really fix it. My mom even tried to take me to buy some products so I could start getting better at me own hygiene. Fast forward to my first year of high school and I’m get bullied horribly every day. Not because of hygiene but because people simply didn’t like me. So on Fridays we would have a half day and during the week my mom would give me $20 to do whatever I wanted with. So I would save up and I would go to the stores and pick up new hygiene products. To me, it felt like an outlet and it made me start taking better care of myself. Since I’d get bullied so badly at school, it felt like the one thing I was in control of and it genuinely made me smile.
Fast forward to now and I have tons of perfumes and body care products and I take so much better care of myself. I tend to fall into depressive episodes like once a month and get lazy on my shower routines, so having all these products makes it easier for me to keep up with my hygiene. I’ve gotten so much better and get compliments often, so maybe it’s a dopamine rush for me