This woman has given up deodorant for a year - and claims she doesn’t smell

A healthy-eating blogger says she has gone for an entire year without using deodorant – and swears she doesn’t smell.

Alyse Brautigam – who also stopped shaving her underarms – says she does not smell at all, despite having given up deodorant since 2015.

The YouTuber (under the name Raw Alignment) says she regularly ‘sweats like a pig’ due to her exercise regime, but credits her healthy eating regime with the fact she does not smell.

Brautigam says, ‘Your body actually starts to smell differently based on the food you are putting into your body.

‘My hormones have balanced even more and my body odour has changed quite a bit.’

Others are taking the idea to the extreme – including one MIT graduate who hasn’t showered for 12 years.

Amazingly, he still has a job.

Instead, he sprays his body with a fluid he invented, called Mother Dirt AO+ Mist’, containing ‘good’ bacteria (based on ones found in human armpits) – and claims that is enough.

The company advises that users wash their hands – and cut back on soap, rather than cutting out showering altogether.

Its founder, though, is a little more hardcore.

Dan Whitlock says, I have not taken a shower in 12 years. The only way that horses could evolve this behavior was if they had substantial evolutionary benefits from it.

‘I didn’t have a biology degree – I wasn’t at an institution that was renowned for its biological research. And I was proposing something completely off the wall.’

The bacteria in the spray eat the ammonia in our sweat. Its makers claim that it works as a cleanser, deodorant, anti-inflammatory and immune system booster, which is applied regularly from a bottle of clear fluid seething with bacteria.