Health
Body Odor
What’s body odor?
Body odor is what you smell when your sweat comes in contact with the bacteria on your skin. Sweat itself does n’t smell, but when the bacteria on your skin blend with your sweat, it causes an odor. Body odor can smell sweet, sour, pungent or like onions.
That’s why a person can have an unwelcome body odor but not be sweaty. Again, a person can sweat exorbitantly but not smell. This is because body odor is a result of the type of bacteria on your skin and how that bacteria interacts with sweat, not the sweat itself
Eccrine glands
Eccrine glands cache sweat directly to the face of your skin. As the sweat evaporates, it helps cool your skin and regulate your body temperature. It does n’t produce a smell. When your body temperature rises due to physical exertion or being hot, the evaporation of sweat from your skin produces a cooling effect. Eccrine glands cover utmost of your body, including triumphs and soles.
Apocrine glands
Apocrine glands open up into your hair follicles. Hair follicles are the tube– suchlike structure that keeps your hair in your skin. You can find apocrine glands in your groin and armpits. These glands produce sweat that can smell when it comes in contact with bacteria on your skin. Apocrine glands do n’t start working until puberty, which is why you do n’t smell body odor in youthful children.
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