By Boston What Causes Body odor Eccrine or Apocrine glands produce sweat While we wear sock or shoes it is more difficult for the sweat to evaporate giving bacteria more sweat to break down into smelly substances Sweat is odorless by nature but bacteria that covers the surface of the skin br ID: 176098
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Body Odor
By: BostonSlide2
What Causes Body odor
Eccrine or Apocrine glands produce sweat. While we wear sock or shoes, it is more difficult for the sweat to evaporate, giving bacteria more sweat to break down into smelly substances. Sweat is odorless by nature but bacteria that covers the surface of the skin breaks down sweat and feed on it. The result is if the smelly substances becomes a body odor when it evaporates. Food can also make body odor.Slide3
Why do teens sweat more at the puberty stage
When our body starts to change, our sweat glands becomes more active. When the sweat glands are active, there are many ways to sweat easily. Such as when you feel nervous because emotions can also affect our sweat glands. We also sweat when the temperature is hot or after we play sports then the moisture evaporates and cools us off.Slide4
How to deal with body odor
To handle body odor, we need to take a shower daily, if you are worried about this, just use a deodorant or a deodorant with antiperspirant. Antiperspirant is a deodorant that masks odor and helps to decrease sweating. You can talk to a doctor when you sweat too much. Or you can do a good hygiene.Slide5
What are the benefits of using a deodorant
A deodorant can mask body odor and decrease sweating. Deodorant can kill the bacteria that causes odor and keeps us clean and fresh. They are best to keep you away from sweating and decreases the chances for bacteria to grow. And it contains alcohol and many other micro chemicals that can
kill bacteria.