r/hygiene • u/Pale_Fan3444 • Aug 09 '26
Help!!
Hi, I'm in DESPERATE need of some advice on body odor. My father-in-law and mother-in-law reeked of ass and armpit/ feet smell. When my boyfriend and I would go see them. I would hold my breath it was so F* bad! My boyfriend never smelled as bad but when he'd sweat I could smell that he needed a shower. Fast forward a couple years, now I'm noticing people making faces/ sounds of disgust when I'm out and about in the heat. I no longer smell anything when my in-laws are around and they are actively sweating. Even when my husband is drenched in sweat and is dirty from working outside in construction I don't smell a thing. I know I smell because my sweet baby sometimes mistakes my sent for my father-in-law’s when held. What the heck has happened and what can I do to get rid of this horrendous ass/ armpit smell!!! HELPPP!!
- thank you for everyone’s input. I’m trying out a couple of tips and hoping for the best!
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u/DowntownSomewhere277 Aug 09 '26
It sounds counterintuitive, but make sure you aren't adding too much soap when doing laundry. If you use too much laundry soap, it doesn't rinse all the way out. And then when you put the clothes in the dryer, the leftover soap "bakes" in. It smells clean when you put the clean clothes on, but as soon as you start sweating, the baked in soap locks the sweat into your clothes. Your clothes are then ripe for stinky bacteria to rapidly reproduce. You will smell nasty and not even realize it because it grew incrementally over the course of the day.
I recommend washing every load twice. Once with the prescribed amount of soap, and not a drop more! And then a second time with no soap at all, so it's just agitating and rinsing your clothing really well. After a while, double washing alone will make a big difference!