Practicing Good Hygiene to Eliminate Body Odor
Take showers regularly.
As mentioned above, taking a shower can help to get rid of body odor
quickly. Making sure to shower each day can help to keep you feeling
cleaning and fresh while you do your daily activities. When you shower:
Keep your skin dry. Bacteria like an environment with lots of moisture, food to eat, warmth, and the proper levels of pH and sodium concentration, all of which can be found in folds of moist skin. Because of this, it is important to dry off your skin whenever it becomes moist, whether the moisture is from taking a shower or sweating.
- Use a towel or oil blotting papers to wipe off sweat and other moisture.
- After a shower, consider applying powder to areas like your armpit in order to combat moisture.
Shave your underarms regularly.
This can apply to both men and women, though women more commonly shave
their armpits. Getting rid of the hair in your armpits can help to
reduce the amount of body odor you have because hair absorbs odors
easily; if you have less hair, there will be less chance that the body
odor is absorbed.
Wear breathable fabrics. There are certain synthetic
materials that don't breathe very well unless they've been specifically
designed for that purpose (like polyester blends). If you're really
worried about body odor wear fabrics like cotton, wool, or silk as they
soak up moisture and have better breathe-ability, which means you will
most likely sweat less and create less body odor.
- You can also wear a cotton or silk undershirt under your clothing to soak up your sweat and body moisture so that your body odor does not soak into your outer layers of clothing.
Wash your clothes regularly.
As mentioned above, body odor can seep into your clothing. If you sweat
heavily in a shirt and allow the shirt to dry without washing it, there
is a very good chance that that shirt will smell bad the next day. Try
to wash your clothes every time you sweat in them to keep them, and
yourself, smelling fresh.
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