A biotech startup near MIT wants us to quit using deodorant and most other personal hygiene products.
Instead, they want us to restore our healthy skin bacteria which in the end will–they promise– take care of grime and odors. Author Julia Scott took the challenge and hilariously reports the results in the New York Times Magazine in a May 2014 article titled My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment.
Read it.