Whats the difference between deodorant and antiperspirant?
You stink. But don’t worry, all people do. Humans emit a natural body odor: a heady, rank scent, with which anyone who’s ridden the subway in any major metropolitan area is familiar. It’s an ancient odor — anthropologist Louis Leakey suspected the original function of body odor was to make humans repellent to animals who sought to eat us [source: Ramirez]. Research into body odor has found that people produce unique scents called odortypes, based in part on both genetics and environmental factors, such as what you eat. One 2006 study found that people who eat a vegetarian diet pr