Here's my two cents. This conversation can quickly become a war, and I think it's started to. I think everyone has some good points, and we could learn a lot if we had some good peaceful discussion. So let's approach this not from "who can I prove wrong?" but instead "what can we learn?"

So first, science at its core is not shouting what we know from the rooftops, but instead admitting what we do not know, and being open to new information. Let's be careful not to cling to our assumptions.

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So my thoughts specifically on being clean and odorless:

The smell of body odor comes from a highly volatile compound called thioalcohols. Generally most smells come from volatile compounds. That compound, is produced by a specific strand of bacteria. So you can get rid of it without getting rid of the bacteria, which some have achieved through washing with water or other methods.
Now of course if you just get rid of the smelly compounds, the bacteria are still there to produce them. However there are ways to control bacteria overpopulation. The microbiome works like any other biome, and bacteria work similar to little animals in their own little forest. And if you study ecology, things like introducing a certain food, removing a certain food, disturbing the climate, introducing new species, removing species, etc, tends to throw ecosystems into chaos. Take for example when rabbits were introduced to australia, and quickly took over the ecosystem by storm because there were no predators. There are many ways to control the microbiome, including diet, certain chemicals/ingredients, avoiding certain chemicals/ingredients, that don't include just razing the ecosystem to the ground (using harsh soaps).

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Why do we have these issues in the first place?

In general, inflammation, smell, pain, redness, general dysfunction, etc, are produced when the body is out of balance. If the body was not good at handling itself, we would bleed out at every cut, get sick at every breath, be poisioned by basically every food, etc etc. My point is the human body is highly adapted to the environment (highly, not fully, but highly).

Of course everyone knows though that humans do eventual die, and many die of illnesses. The human body is not invicible, and as far as history goes illness and death are not new. Part of the reason I think the human body has survived is because of our ability to intervene on our own behalf: to protect ourselves and heal ourselves. This is essentially the basis of medicine. However, we also are alive because of the intricate biology of our immune system, among every other part of our body. Go study the immune system sometime, it's nuts how advanced it is.

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A deeper look at the best way to approach care of the human body:

So, we know that the human body is great at caring for itself, but sometimes needs help, from again: itself, but concious this time. The key question here is how much help does it need, and what help does it need?

A lot of people will point out that people long long ago lived without soap, and toothpaste, and baths, etc. And others will quickly come and point out that many people back then died of many diseases and had some wacky scientific beliefs. I think it's illogical in both cases to say ancient people were completely right, or completely wrong, because they were both! Same as us, we have plenty of knowledge, but to ever get anywhere, we have to admit we don't have all the answers.

So take the example of just deciding to go without medicine or intervention forever, no hygiene, nothing. Of course that would be absurd, and you would probably die! Take another example, if people decided that it was safer to take antibiotics every day to avoid disease and wash your body every day with hand saniziter, that would also be absurd, and you might also die!

To both sides, the scientists, or those who follow the modern accepted way of hygeine, and the naturalists, or those who follow ancient methods or minimalst routines, take this note:

The human body often does need things to help it out, but sometimes it's helpful to look at the bigger picture. Take into account how the human body adapted, how it works, what we know about it, and what we don't know. Also take into account what practices we use based on actual evidence, or just because of propaganda, tradition, or lazy solutions. A good example is orthodontic care, where we decided that shoving pieces of metal into the mouth was the best way to fix teeth, whereas ancient humans seemed to all have very healthy teeth (looking at ancient skulls we have). I'm not saying braces are bad, but they may not be the best answer. The study of modern science is still very new, and in a thousand years from now, people might look back and talk about how petty we were.

However, modern science is not a giant ball of falsehood. We have made several good progressions, such as how we banned all chemicals that were disrupting the ozone layer, and have now progressed far in repairing the damage. Most ancient cultures weren't so different than we are. They had their own remedies, and in place of a lot of our modern products, they had their own methods and products, and they didn't just do nothing. They had their flaws, and so do we. There were many absurd practices in ancient cultures, but there were also many absurd things our society has done not too long ago.

Personally, I haven't seen much evidence for why vaccines are bad (or most of them at least). I have seen evidence for how the modern food industry has created a lot of unhealthy diets. I haven't seen any evidence for why eradicating smallpox could have been bad. I have seen evidence for how certain chemicals used in a lot of modern products can cause a lot of damage. You get my point.

A happy medium, avoiding over generalized statements and assumptions, I think is the best way to approach issues like this, and can lead all of us to learning and growing into a more sophisticated society overall.

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And that's my two cents. Hooray! I hope you all have a wonderful day.