“Does everyone who uses deodorant in your house have a different deodorant, or do they use the same one?”
This is the question one mom asked her 90,000 followers TikTok This week.
“I was a little taken aback at first,” but then she said, “Let me tell you why I'm asking you this…” So I was relieved that there was a perfectly logical reason for her asking, other than the fact that she shares deodorant with her own family.
But I was wrong.
This is very, very wrong.
“Why would we have our own deodorant?”
“So, I was taking a shower last night and my husband came in to get ready for work and he said, 'I can't find my deodorant,' and I said, 'It's in the drawer where it always is,'” mom, Allie, explained.
Her husband then suggested that their son might be the culprit, and that he had taken “his” deodorant out of the bathroom.
So yes, by now we know that this is indeed a deodorant-sharing household and she isn't just asking her followers this question as a hypothetical or because she's run out of ideas for content.
The husband, becoming frustrated that he can't find community deodorant, asks Ellie why they can't have their own.
“Why would we have our own deodorant? I'm not paying for a whole stick of deodorant,” she replies, seeming genuinely confused by the suggestion.
Her husband replies, “You know it's disgusting, right?”
But alas, she doesn't find it disgusting at all, which is why she enforces the wearing of deodorant throughout the group from the start.
She insists, “Me and the girls even share deodorant and it's not a bad thing”, but her husband argues that it's “different for boys” because they have hair in their armpits.
The mother, who I'm now convinced also shares underwear, says that even if she had armpit hair, she would still continue exchanging underarms with her kids.
“I don't buy five to eight sticks of deodorant every month,” she says. “I have to put extra money into my budget because we all use clinical strength deodorant. It's about $15 to $20 per deodorant.”
No judgement here, but this mom just admitted that Excessive-Sweaty family and still won't invest in personalized sticks?!
OK, maybe a little bit judgemental too.
He then concluded his clip like all people lacking self-awareness do and asked, “Am I crazy? Am I delusional?”
“What exactly happened?”
Thankfully, some of the 2.5 million viewers opened up and shared their feelings with the mother.
One said, “I've been poor, I mean really poor, but I've never had to share a deodorant.”
And someone said: “My mom was a single mom, we lived in a shed, and yet we had our own deodorant.”
A third wrote: “What the heck, I've never heard of sharing deodorant.”
Others pointed out the mum has dyed her hair blonde, shaped her eyebrows to perfection, worn fake eyelashes and may have even had cosmetic surgery.
“Seriously, just spend a little more money and get your kids their own deodorant,” one comment urged. “And maybe spend less on your own looks.”
“Toothbrushes, razors, hairbrushes, and deodorants are not shared products,” someone else commented. “What if someone gets a staph infection or impetigo?
Mom answers the deodorant question
After the strong backlash, the mother, who had asked for feedback but clearly didn’t want any, made a follow-up video.
“We all apply it straight after a shower. Don't you guys do that?” she said. “Don't you apply it straight after a shower on clean armpits?”
“Nobody goes out there with sweaty armpits and puts on deodorant. If our armpits are sweaty, we shower and then put on deodorant on clean armpits.
“It's nothing like sharing used toilet paper. It's nothing like sharing a toothbrush.”
Well, although I don’t agree with his logic, I think it will seem a little less strange when you think of it this way.
I still can’t help but think, if you’re going to share, why not buy the spray?
