You will become anxious as in “I may smell.” not only in the summer but anytime sweating a little since you take notice of body odor.
Can’t you help but undergo surgery so as to resolve such distress and anxiety?
No, we cannot necessarily say so.
The odor of sweat is greatly influenced by your lifestyle. If you do not usually care about cleanliness and deodorant, you come to smell though it is not originally body odor or mild body odor comes to be even severer. On the contrary, you can significantly suppress with improving your lifestyle even if it is body odor. At first if you continue an improved lifestyle for a month, you should get the effect.
Therefore, today I will find out the causes of body odor in an everyday lifestyle and tell 9 methods about how you should improve it.
9 methods to cure body odor knowing causes
- No.1: Review your eating habits at first
- No.2: Introduce the foods good for preventing body odor
- No.3: Take care of drinks and cigarettes
- No.4: Review the way of bathing
- No.5: The right way to remove your unwanted hair
- No.6: Use the antiperspirant effectively
- No.7: Remove the sweat with washing
- No.8: Take care of the storage of clothing
- No.9: Live a life free of fatigue and stress
- 9 methods to cure body odor knowing causes
No.1: Review your eating habits at first
The smell of body is greatly influenced by a thing to eat every day. The following foods work to make body odor strong and sweat promoted, and they may be recognized as the causes of body odor:
・ Things containing the animal protein a lot such as meats and dairy products
・ Oily foods
・ Strong smelling foods such as garlic, green chives, and onion
・ Stimulants such as red peppers
・ things containing salt or sugar a lot
It does not mean do not to eat absolutely these foods, but keep them in small and appropriate quantity only.
No.2: Introduce the foods good for preventing body odor
Contrary to meats, the following foods are suitable for preventing body odor:
・ Pickled plum, ginger, vinegar: They have the sterilization effect and suppress the generation of smell from the body.
・ Soybean products such as soybeans, tofu, natto, miso: They contain a lot of isoflavone to suppress the oxidation of sweat.
・ The green and yellow vegetables such as spinach, carrots: They suppress the oxidation of sweat and control the smell with making the intestinal environment better.
・ Apple, cider vinegar: They have the high deodorization effect.
Can you consume these foods positively? It will be easy to take them in if you have the eating habits on the basis of Japanese foods.
No.3: Take care of drinks and cigarettes
The alcohol included in liquor is the odorant itself. The smell becomes stronger when the alcohol is taken into the body and metabolized as sweat. In addition, the nicotine included in cigarettes works to promote sweat. Alcohol and cigarettes are recognized as the causes to make body odor terrible. If alcohol is in small quantity, it does not cause any problem, but please drink moderately.
You had better stop smoking if possible.
No.4: Review the way of bathing
Do you not have done with taking a shower only when having a bath? In fact, you may think you washed your body, but the dirt remains in the pores and it may often cause body odor. You should soak yourself in hot water and get warmed up to prevent body odor.
When you get yourself warmed up, the pores open and you can remove them exactly. In addition, you will have the constitution difficult to sweat during the day since the metabolism is improved with sweating in the bath.
No.5: The right way to remove your unwanted hair
The sweat flowing from the sweat glands called the apocrine one is the causes of body odor, but the sweat itself is odorless. It is miscible with the sweat from the eccrine glands and the sebum and is broken down into bacteria, and the smell occurs. Because the underarm hairs tend to form the hotbeds of bacteria making the causes of body odor, it is better to shave underarms.
However you must not remove them with tweezers. It is because it will stimulate the apocrine glands and activate the secretion of sweat. You should not pick out them but shave them.
No.6: Use the antiperspirant effectively
Today the various types of antiperspirants are sold, but to use anything directly in the place where you sweat will make the rather strange odor. It is the most effective to use the antiperspirant after taking a bath. When you sweat at the place to visit or at your workplace, you may use the antiperspirant after wiping the sweat with wet wipe. It is perfect to always have a box of wet wipe and the antiperspirant ready in the bag for an outside job or the lockers in your office.
No.7: Remove the sweat with washing
Can you wash the clothing well? It is more difficult to remove the sweats of armpits and the body odor soaked into the clothes once than you might imagine, and you cannot completely wash them off in the way of the normal washing. When you sweat to the clothes with body odor remained, naturally it will make the smell terrible much more. Recommended is the following washing method to wash away the sweat and the smell completely.
・ Put the bleach directly to the portions of the armpits of the clothes just before washing.
・ Then, wash a washing machine with the washing liquid that you put the same bleach into.
* As for the bleach, the oxygen-based thing usable to colored pattern things is convenient. Please follow the instructions of the manufacturer about the consumption, etc.
No.8: Take care of the storage of clothing
When you put out the clothes that you washed and put in the closet, have you the experience of smelling somehow? In fact, it is easy to be filled with the moisture in the closet and the chest, and the smells of the chemical substances included in housing materials and the furniture and the insect repellent are mixed and often move to the clothes. The clothes stained with such smells will be the causes to make your body odor terrible.
It is good to put a deodorant and a desiccant in the closet and the chest in order to prevent from getting the smells in the clothes, but it is much better to ventilate the inside with opening the doors of the closet and the drawers in the chest several times in a week.
No.9: Live a life free of fatigue and stress
The life where you get fatigued and stressed causes body odor. When you get fatigued, the ammonia included in the sweat increases and the secretion of sebum increases. Even in busy days, you should take enough time of meals and bathing, and keep a less stressful life in mind.
How about things mentioned above?
Have you anything to call to mind in the 9 items? And, you might find you overlooked something in daily life! It is the chance that you can improve body odor if you thought so. Address improvement at once if you felt something as a “cause” in these items. Please continue it for a month. I hope that you will spend the comfortable days without the distress of odor.
Summary
9 methods to cure body odor knowing causes
No.1: Review your eating habits at first
No.2: Introduce the foods good for preventing body odor
No.3: Take care of drinks and cigarettes
No.4: Review the way of bathing
No.5: The right way to remove your unwanted hair
No.6: Use the antiperspirant effectively
No.7: Remove the sweat with washing
No.8: Take care of the storage of clothing
No.9: Live a life free of fatigue and stress