Hygiene Influencers Want You To Believe That You Smell Bad

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When I was a teenager, puberty hit me hard. One way it disrupted my adolescence was in how much it made me sweat. Being spotty, sweaty, and scaly from psoriasis makes you an easy target for bullies. The insults were predictable and I got over it, but the one that forever lingers is being told that I was dirty and smelly. If you’ve ever been told that you smell bad, you know how much that insult sticks with you. I’m now 35 and I’m still paranoid about my body odour or the prospect that the smell that’s making everyone on the bus squirm is coming from me. So, perhaps it was inevitable that the almighty algorithm would track me down and decide to shove a new-to-me influencer trend in my acne-scarred face

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