• Chris@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Same as the shower gel, where there are lots of “flavours” and then some just labelled “MEN” with no indication of what they smell of.[1]

    1. Engine oil and Swarfega ↩︎

  • Localhorst86@feddit.org
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    2 years ago

    In return, Women get to smell like coconuts and vanilla, while we men are relegated to scents like “burnt charcoal and 7 year old engine oil”

    • Odelay42@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      There’s no laws preventing you from using what you perceive as women’s hair care products.

      • Allero@lemmy.today
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        2 years ago

        Yes, but I think the (true) point was that male-marketed products are always either:

        • Arctic freshness 0°K we’ll make you feel like you’re naked on an iceberg in the middle of the North Pole

        Or:

        • Now you smell like your grandfather! Some wood, musk, and cedar cones

        Why is it so and what does it tell of our society and weird expectations? A great deal of men do NOT appreciate this approach, and sure turn to the products marketed for women.

        We should either break that insanely entrenched stereotype about “masculine” scents, or better just ditch product gendering altogether.

        Yay for men smelling like vanilla and strawberry yoghurt!

        • Odelay42@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Reject marketing. Reject gender roles. Reject artificial constructs that only serve to oppress and control you.

          Easier said than done, but seriously fuck marketing.

        • Zacryon@lemmy.wtf
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          2 years ago

          Well, baldness also requires care. A shampoo will be fine for your head-skin. Also, moisturise. Especially important for people who tend to have dry skin like me. There aren’t many good moisturisers for men around though. (At least none which I found good so far.) So, moisturisers marketed towards women it is.

          And if it smells like peach, roses and aloe vera paired with coconuts, even better. If your girlfriend/wife likes to smell herself that way, you can bet she would also like to smell your floral skin-desert.

  • prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Does nobody use 17 in 1 hair detergent, body wash, conditioner, deoderant, moisturizer, hand soap, shaving cream, beard oil, lip balm, callous remover, hand sanitizer, bubble bath solution, epsom salt, dandruff treatment, cologne, hair gel, and junk defunker anymore?