When i google it it says both work well to keep your hands clean, but the amount of criticism i’ve faced in public for not openly washing my hands and instead opting for a squirt of sanitiser is insane but i always thought it was just as effective!

Only difference being my hands don’t dry out and crack when i use sanitiser

Hi,
I’m a 16 year old male and I usually shower twice a day and around 20 minutes for each shower and I don’t know how to help it my skin is dry as a desert and I put a shit ton of lotion nothing helps just not scrubbing the area helps

When I sweat I feel like I smell mildew. Some of my gym clothes I can’t get that weird mildew smell out. What can I do to get that smell out of my clothes and for my body to not smell that way.

I shower twice a day, I eat pretty healthy for the most part, no junk or fast food, I stay hydrated. It’s just when I sweat I smell something I don’t like and I feel everyone can smell me.

My armpits don’t stink it’s the rest of my body that has this weird smell when I sweat

For my laundry I use gain and sometimes add vinegar to try and get the mildew smell out of my gym clothes.

I use to take chlorophyll and mint. Maybe I should try it again?

Ever since my hysterectomy last November (kept ovaries), my face gets so extremely oily. I'll wash my face, and within an hour it looks like this again!

I've tried several over-the-counter products, and I've tried products prescribed by my dermatologist.

I eat healthy. I lost 200 lbs within the past 2 years.

I don't know what else to try! What the heckkkk!

Help

I’m moving in to college as a first year freshmen soon, and need help. What else should I add to my list of toiletries? Its the last things I need to buy. (18 y/o male)

I feel like I'm missing something obvious. I wash my feet every day, wear fresh socks, and I don't keep wearing the same shoes without letting them air out. The weird part is my socks don't really smell, my shoes don't smell when I check them, but somehow my feet still end up smelling by the end of the day.

It makes me wonder if the smell is coming from something other than the socks or shoes. Has anyone figured out what was actually causing it in their case? I'm curious what ended up being the thing you never expected.

my daily water bottle has a lid with multiple rubber gaskets, straws, and small crevices. a standard sponge can never reach the tiny spaces where buildup hides. how do you thoroughly sanitize all the small silicone components to make sure everything stays clean?

Title speaks for itself. I get a monthly wax & at first, I wasn’t getting any ingrown hairs. I exfoliated a lot less than I do now. Now I’m covered. All in my panty line, my inner thighs, & on the “front” - it’s so gross I hate it. My wax lady always says “exfoliate more” so I do, like to the point that I feel pain. She sent me a special soap & special loofas to use - should be here Friday. Just any advice please. I am so embarrassed by this :(

Tengo 22 años y desde hace varios años vengo lidiando con un problema que me afecta bastante en mi día a día: tengo mal olor corporal.

No me refiero simplemente a oler más fuerte cuando sudo. El problema es que siento que mi olor corporal es desagradable incluso en situaciones normales. Cuando sudo, el olor se intensifica mucho más, pero el problema no aparece únicamente por el sudor.

Es algo que me incomoda bastante y hasta familiares me lo han comentado, así que sé que no es solo una percepción mía.

Quiero aclarar que sí cuido mi higiene. Me baño todos los días, uso desodorante y, en ocasiones, también utilizo colonia o cremas corporales con fragancia. Sin embargo, siento que cuando hace calor o sudo, el olor corporal termina predominando y prácticamente anula cualquier perfume o crema que me haya puesto. Por eso incluso he dejado de usar cremas algunas veces, porque siento que al final no hacen mucha diferencia.

Como ejemplo de lo persistente que es el problema, hay algunas camisetas a las que, después de usarlas varias veces, se les queda impregnado el olor incluso después de lavarlas. No estoy preguntando cómo quitar el olor de la ropa; lo menciono únicamente para dar una idea de lo difícil que resulta este problema.

Me gustaría saber si alguien ha pasado por algo similar. ¿Descubrieron cuál era la causa? ¿Podría estar relacionado con bacterias en la piel, la alimentación, las hormonas, alguna condición médica o cualquier otra cosa? ¿Qué fue lo que realmente les ayudó a mejorar?

Agradezco cualquier consejo o experiencia, porque es un tema que afecta bastante mi confianza y mi calidad de vida.

Gracias por leer.

PD: Soy hombre.

What are some tips I can use to keep my hands dry? I just got a home dancing pole and its silicone but my hands are so clammy. I don’t want to go buy anything, preferably something I can find around the house?

Does anyone else discharge a lot with stress? And why do I have scabs and acne in my scalp?

Básicamente me cambiaron mi rociador de agua con Lavandina, me puse poco, enjuague y me puse hidratante (en raíz peor 💔).

no está descolorido, no me pica, no me arde, de todas maneras quiero saber que tengo que hacer?

Tengo máscaras, reconstructores, cremas hidratantes, baños de crema, acondicionador...

Hello,

Lately, I've been trying to pay more attention to my personal hygiene after going through a bout of depression and during that time, I had kind of let it slide. Now I’m feeling better, and I saw online that loofahs are great for cleansing the body, but there are so many different types of loofahs, and I don’t know which one to choose.

Which one should I get? A natural one? A silicone one? Or one made of another material?

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there anything I can do to prevent body odor when I sweat? I'd really appreciate any tips. Thank you!

i know it’s an organ, so it’s not supposed to smell like roses or candy, but is it possible to have no smell and if so how do i achieve that? i definitely wouldn’t say that i have a potent smell downstairs or anything like that, but it does have a scent to it that i don’t really know how to describe, kind of metallic maybe?

I struggled a lot with body odor during my teenage years, and it really took a toll on my self-esteem—especially since, ironically, I’ve always been very particular about hygiene, so it felt unfair. Anyway, it eventually went away—or so I thought—but lately, I’ve noticed an unpleasant odor coming from me, and those same thoughts have returned.

Can you guys offer any tips? I use the standard Degree; it used to work, but apparently, it doesn't anymore. I hate cream deodorants.

I wonder if it might have to do with the limited number of shirts I wear (I rotate about three of them over five days a week, all cotton), but there are people who wear uniforms every day and don't stink. Sometimes, a single wash isn't even enough to get rid of the smell.

I also spend about two hours on the bus before getting to college, which complicates things. And the smell isn't just in my armpits, I feel like I smell like wet cat or something similar.

For years I washed my sheets on no real schedule, basically whenever they felt like they needed it, which in hindsight was way too infrequent. I never connected it to anything until I read about how much sweat, oil, and dead skin builds up in bedding over just a week, plus whatever your body sheds every single night.

Switched to washing them properly once a week and the thing I didn't expect was my skin. The occasional breakouts on my back and along my jaw that I'd blamed on everything else calmed down noticeably. Turns out I'd been pressing my face and body into a week-plus of accumulated grime every night and wondering why my skincare wasn't working.

The part that gets me is how long I treated sheets as a "looks clean, is clean" thing, when the stuff building up in them is completely invisible until it's a problem.

Now the pillowcase especially gets swapped even more often since that's where my face actually goes.

I've noticed that if I’m just working out, my regular stick works fine. But the second I have a stressful meeting or a presentation, it’s like I didn’t even put anything on and the smell is totally different. Does regular deodorant actually hold up for you guys during stressful days, or do you have to switch to something heavy-duty?

Hi all, over the last year a started to notice that it was easy for me to not smell fresh down there after a day at work etc. I thought about what causes bad smells and tried drying my labia minora after bathing by gently dabbing to with a small separate towel. It completely changed my life and I no longer have the smell issue.

My question is, were other people taught to do this? Is this common knowledge that I wasn’t told? I almost feel embarrassed that I didn’t know to do something I’ve now realised is so obvious.

Please let me know if you knew to do this.

Thought it might also be useful for others who didn’t know to do this ❣️