thoughts on body odor (anyone agree?)

Doc told me it was precisely caused by anti-perspirant, and according to what he said what happened to me is not so uncommon.

I got that infection because sweat was trapped inside my skin and my body kept producing more and more sweat as if things were normal. With time and the action of bacteria it became really infected. My glands were huge, red and painful, imagine itchy bumps multiplied by 10 000. While things were coming back to normal my body was evacuating the infected sweat, which was super stinky since it was loaded with bacteria even before going on the surface of my skin. It was really embarassing, especially since I was starting school at that moment and was integrating a new group. I didn't want to be labeled as the "girl who stinks" so I was really concerned.

 

Aww! That's an awful thing to go through. I've had it myself on my arms and chest and it was excruciating. It's called miliaria and it effects all different parts of the body for various reasons when the pores become blocked, usually from people using oil-based lotions or sweating a lot in the sun. I never suffered with a smell but I also never suffered with a bacterial infection like that. Having said that, the blocked hair follicles and sebaceous cysts do smell foul, though really only when they're reptured (or infected). I suffer a lot with my skin though and I see a dermatologist. I sympathise with the pain, but it's awfully nice that you've over it.

 

I love my natural scent. I would never cover what nature gave me. I probably love your scent as well. BO is an important part of the human experience! Plus it makes alot of us horny.

 

agreed.

 

I agree. Actually, anything natural involving the human body is anything but gross or dirty. That's why so many of my relationships don't work. Because yes, I would fart in front of my boyfriend. I use to not shave, but I got so tired of people making werewolf jokes I just gave in. And I kinda like my smooth skin anyway. But yeah, I think we've been trained over a very long period of time, to hate ourselves. And the fact that the slightest natural smell coming off of a person deems them "smelly", is proof of that. I personally, love the musky smell. It doesn't start getting bad to me until the person is seriously dirty. Like, haven't washed themselves in two or three hot Summer days, dirty.

 

I don't mind the natural smell of a person, but sweat isn't nice. I don't shower very often, and i don't use deoderant, but once i start smelling i wipe down my underarms and neck. that usually takes care of the smell. if it doesn't, a few drops of EO mixed with water and misted on my pitts and chest does it.

 

I would like to say noone should use deo but some people do need to use something or wash more. The smell can get very strong. Normaly i use deo half way through day, but tryed tea tree natural stuf and made me smel worse.?.. Any other natural thing i could use? But i used to love the smell of my ex after they exercised, though there friends used to say 'Put deo on!'

 

I barely were deodorant, I have barely any body odor. And anyways, I shave my armpits and that helps a lot.

 

I tend to smell like my bedroom, which is a quite pleasent mix of incense and patchouli. I used to use tea tree oil but the store I got it at stopped carrying it... I switched to passionfruit and had a horrible allergic reaction that had hives all over my entire body.

 

I prefer natural smells to those synthetic natural smells. When a person eats unhealthy stuff that smells bad as well.
When I am in nature for a long time and the sense of smell becomes really fine, I can smell those synthetic chemicals from washing clothes or parfumes hundreds of yards, sometimes miles away, its awful how that stinks.

 

Natural food can stink plenty and is a major contributor to underarm odor. Sometimes horrible sometimes not so bad. I prefer scentless deoderant and a spray or two of natural based cologne near the pulse points.

 

Miles! Riiiight :afro:

 

You can even smell that a long time after people left a place, synthetic chemical smells are very very long lasting and strong when your sense for smell gets normal after some months away from stinking civilisation. We just got used to our completely degenerated senses...

 

Pheromones tell the subconscious mind that you have chemical compatibility with someone.
If your personalities also click, then pair up!

I don't think most of us like the smell of a long-unwashed body, but when a man and woman feel strong attraction they often produce musk. This signals an even higher level of attraction. Whether you act on that attraction is up to you.

I understand that you don't always want to send those "love vibrations" to the whole world, but when it is just you and someone you want to be with, it can be a powerful turn on.

 

I had a hippie buddhist roommate for a while who rarely bathed and didn't use deodorant... I'm sorry but her smell was just unbearable, filthy.

 

and can be harmful to you.




bar soap adds to bo problems by clogging you pores . if you wash often, water will clean you just fine. try it. wash with soap then smell your pits after a day or two. then wash scrub your pits with water then smell after a day or two. witch smelled worst. it was a bar soap company that stared the idea that CLEAN people had be ashamed of their natural sent

 

washing is good there is a deference between bo and ass rot. if peoples objection to washing is wasting water. just use a bowl of water and a wash cloth

 

Soap doesn't clog pores! I wouldn't recommend buying the cheapest shite soap to put on your delicate skin. Use something recommended by a dermatologist or something with a pH close to skin. The idea that soap adds to BO is pants. BO has nothing to do with clogging pores. BO is caused by bacteria. Not everybody suffers with it but if you do, the best thing you can do is boil wash your clothes and wash them well to kill bacteria, shave your pits of hair and keep your body clean and rid of bacteria. These days if you don't want to wear deodorant and like the fact that you sweat, you can buy a crystal that you rub on your pits after showering. It allows your body to sweat freely and doesn't block pores but it also stops bacteria from breeding. Therefore you have no smell.

This part isn't directed at you, Raven_Star. But bad hygiene effects health. It's fact.

 

at a certain level my own body odor will turn me on. This may be because my scent matches my mates..
Im plenty weird. though I feel that Ive been polluted by others fragrances scents to long and I cant stand perfume at all. I totally go ape shit with a sometimes irreversible migraine headache from them.
some the scent areas i like are under arms, between thighs, oily hair the back the neck.. im not talking about a person thats jogged 10miles, but there is some clean sweat odor that just drives me crazy...
and even though my wife has had a hysterectomy, she kicks scents on her time the month even though she dont get it no more... at these times I can become very hostile with a huge sexual drive or Im repelling her < we have often mistaken the drive signals , due to the hostile confusion, animalistic nature of things..

 

most bar soap dose leave a film on you body(soap scum) and can clog your pores and make you stink more(at least arm pits for me). what your def of cheap shit. i do use soap to wash hands and when really dirty. if someone eats something or just has strong bo some apple cider vin. can help

the crystal sounds interesting is it the same as the ion lamps