How do these companies come to that conclusion? I think most people start to smell after only 24 or 48 hours max so how do these companies get 72 hours out of their testing?

Im assuming they’re fudging their numbers but at what point does it become false advertisement?

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    “Im assuming they’re fudging their numbers”

    yup.

    “at what point does it become false advertisement?”

    liability/conviction.

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      1 year ago

      Burden of proof.

      If the least smelly person on the planet can use the product and stay fresh for 3 days, technically they aren’t lying.

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        181 year ago

        They also usually use some weasel words like “up to.” That way, if it doesn’t last the full 72 hours (which it won’t), they can claim that they stated “72 hours MAXIMUM” rather than just “72 hours.” It’s basically shifts the statement from “lasts three days” to “definitely won’t last four days.”

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          51 year ago

          Lots off stuff like that out there. Like food products that say “Made with 100% white meat chicken”. That just means that 100% white meat chicken is one of the ingredients.

          Or those stupid “99c and up” stores. That’s no dollar store. That’s just a store. 99c and up is so many things.

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            41 year ago

            Or the american no sugar rule that makes 100% sugar tic tacs sugar free (each ‘serving’ contains less than 5 gram of sugar)

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              51 year ago

              I’m willing to bet their diet plays a huge role in the smell factor, especially in their localities. It seems like anyone with a western, especially American, diet, has a propensity to smell less that fresh on lieu of daily hygiene.

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                31 year ago

                makes sense.

                I’ve switched between a lot of different diets, and anecdotally meat, alcohol, and sugar play a huge role in how bad i and my byproducts smell.

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                    11 year ago

                    I had to think it up a little earlier since I was talking about this an hour before I saw this post or so with someone else and didn’t want to keep repeating less polite terms.

                    It’s upsetting in its own way though, isn’t it?

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                  21 year ago

                  Alcohol was my big one, especially as I get older. Quality of meat makes a big difference too, I found there’s a huge contrast between fast food burgers and quality steak in terms of red meat.

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                    i hear you, fast food meat doesn’t even taste like meat to me at this point, it’s so clearly the lowest common denominator of protein.

                    I’ve eaten rat, snake, crocodile, everything i can try, but the most recent time i can remember my stomach feeling rough after eating was the last time I ate McDonald’s years ago on a whim; I felt greasy, logy and nauseous almost immediately after eating it.

                    like I was poisoned or something.

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      31 year ago

      You have 72 hours to hide in the dark. If they smell you, you die. If you make it, you win a million dollars.

      Good thing I have 72 hour deodorant!

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      First there was the 12h deo !!!

      Then magically the same was 24, 48 and eventually 72?!

      There was a backlash against that 72 hours in some countries like do you even shower bro?

      Soon 1 month smell free!1!!