Why does the smell of sweat appear?

In summer, it is sometimes impossible to stay in public transport. And business is often not at all hot and stuffy, although these factors do not add to the pleasure of riding in crowded buses. But when the unpleasant smells are added to the crowdedness, it becomes unbearable at all!

Particularly strong smell of sweat is produced by representatives of the so-called southern peoples. But the point here is not at all that they differ in something from the Slavs. Just a traditional southerly kitchen contains a lot of spicy seasonings. The body does not cope with their processing, and the smell of sweat, "diluted" with onion or garlic "aroma," becomes completely unbearable.

But an unpleasant smell is not at all the prerogative of lovers of spicy dishes, quite often the same "aroma" suffer and sweet tooth. The fact is that in fact a fresh sweat has no smell, in the event that the person is absolutely healthy. But accumulating on the skin, it is an excellent nutrient medium for bacteria. They happily throw themselves on the refreshment received, and as a result there is an irritating and unpleasant smell of sweat. This brings discomfort.

But often a particularly strong smell occurs when the person is sick. In this case, consult a doctor.

If you carefully observe hygiene requirements, but the smell of perspiration still haunts you, and even deodorants do not help get rid of it, it does not hurt to undergo a medical examination. It may turn out that your kidney is not in order, or there was a hormonal failure in your body.

To combat the unpleasant odor of perspiration, mankind has discovered many ways over the millennia of its existence. All of them can be divided into two categories: antiperspirants and deodorants. Thanks to the efforts of advertising, diligently promoting a whole galaxy of antiperspirant deodorants, most of the population simply does not separate them from each other in their minds. In fact, these two tools have completely different actions and tasks.

Antiperspirants are designed to eliminate the cause of the unpleasant odor, that is, to reduce sweating, and deodorants simply mask the smell. Based on these features, you need to use them correctly.

So, applying antiperspirant to the already sweated skin is completely useless. Once the sweat has already stood out, then after a while he will start to smell. Use antiperspirant immediately after you took a shower and dried the skin under your armpits. But you will not be able to completely block sweating, and you do not need to do this, even with the purpose of removing an unpleasant odor. Nature has not in vain provided the human body with a couple of millions of sweat glands. Together with secretions our body leaves not only moisture, but also an excess of salts and other wastes. If the human skin ceases to allocate sweat, then we will just be cooked alive, since sweat is a natural thermoregulator of the body. Evaporating from the surface of the skin, it cools the whole body. Remember the school course of physics, and you will understand the mechanism of the process.

Deodorants can be applied to the skin throughout the day. In order to keep the effect longer, and the smell of sweat has been eliminated, it is recommended to use not the sprays, but the ball deodorants, since their flavors have a more stable effect.