Body odor is a natural occurrence that all humans emit. What factors are contributing to yours?
Body Care Products
Contrary to the marketing of 90% of skincare brands, most deodorants, soaps, and creams are contributing to the reason you are buying these products in the first place.
The skin is our largest organ and it does much more than keep our insides protected. The skin is living, and it consumes and processes everything it comes to contact with. Soaps and creams filled with harmful, synthetic ingredients. Deodorants often contain aluminum and other carcinogenic metals.
Your skin must process and rid itself of these compounds through the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system carries waste and bacteria out of the body through urine, bowel movements, and you guessed it- sweat.
Ditch the harmful and odor causing products for natural alternatives.
Hygiene
A humid, warm environment with no exposure to sunlight makes for the perfect breeding ground for odor-causing bacteria.
Sweat itself doesn't smell, nor does the amount you sweat necessarily impact your body odor. That's why a person can have an unpleasant body odor but not be sweaty. Conversely, a person can sweat excessively, but not smell.
Dwelling under your arms are bacteria that feed on odorless chemicals found in sweat, producing a pungent compound with an offending smell.
Showering as necessary with natural and safe soap is enough to eliminate the bacteria that are causing any foul body odor.
Diet
You know that strong scent in your urine after having asparagus?
Diet is a strong contributor to the scents your body produces. Sulfuric vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower, processed carbohydrates and sugars, spices and hot food, aromatic food like garlic and onions, caffeine, alcohol, and seed oils MAY be causing your unpleasant odor.
Stress
The body contains 2 types of sweat glands: apocrine and eccrine.
Eccrine glands are the most common sweat glands found all over our body and they produce a more watery and odorless kind of sweat.
Apocrine glands are mostly found near the genitals, armpits, and scalp. They secrete a more viscid fluid onto the hair follicles.
The viscosity in sweat from apocrine glands is due to higher amounts of lipids and proteins. These apocrine glands are stimulated by psychological stress. After a run or workout you might not have that much of a scent but leading up to a date or presentation you might find a more significant stench radiating from your body.
Other Tips
- Shower regularly with a natural soap, like Health y Sol
- Avoid processed foods, sulfuric vegetables, and alcohol
- Stay hydrated
- Use natural deodorant spray
- Trim hair
- Sauna to remove excess toxins
- Keep clothes clean
- Wear natural fabrics, like cotton, linen, and wool
- Eat fruits and probiotic-rich foods like yogurt and kefir
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