Armpits

[Sukie Wu]

My sweat tends to smell like whatever I've been eating.

[Ryanizme]

eat flowers

[Eric Matthews]

Jun 10, 2014 8:49:40 GMT -5 Ryanizme said:

eat flowers

But I'm not a rabbit.

[Ryanizme]

true, rabbits jump at the chance at eating flowers

[A Dream Is A Wish (Old)]

Jun 9, 2014 17:40:23 GMT -5 Juliet Long said:

My mother used to tell me it smells more because of the hair, but I shave and still smell so

It smells either way, but it's less bad without hair because the hair traps the sweat and therefore increases the smell.

[Tim05]

I think there are actually different kinds of sweat. Regular sweat can come from any area of your body and is designed to cool the body temperature when it is too high. This kind of sweat isn't as odorous as the kind that comes from your armpits or your 'other' parts, which produces a different kind of sweat that stains and smells different.

[polkowska]

If sweat actually cooled me down, I wouldnt mind it so much.

[calyta]

There are different sweat glands associated with different parts of the body. The sweat glands the release sweat in the armpits are apocrine glands and secrete sweat with lots of oil. Sweat itself doesn't smell but the bacteria on your skin will eat the secretion and create odor. Essentially you're smeling bacteria farts! Hair just increase the area the bacteria can be so it can but not necessarily increases body odor. ouob

Jun 11, 2014 16:11:50 GMT -5 calyta said:

There are different sweat glands associated with different parts of the body. The sweat glands the release sweat in the armpits are apocrine glands and secrete sweat with lots of oil. Sweat itself doesn't smell but the bacteria on your skin will eat the secretion and create odor. Essentially you're smeling bacteria farts! Hair just increase the area the bacteria can be so it can but not necessarily increases body odor. ouob

Didi why ur not posting in anatomy botm?? Ur mainly the science person for bboy!

[calyta]

Jun 11, 2014 17:00:48 GMT -5 @tiki said:

Jun 11, 2014 16:11:50 GMT -5 calyta said:

There are different sweat glands associated with different parts of the body. The sweat glands the release sweat in the armpits are apocrine glands and secrete sweat with lots of oil. Sweat itself doesn't smell but the bacteria on your skin will eat the secretion and create odor. Essentially you're smeling bacteria farts! Hair just increase the area the bacteria can be so it can but not necessarily increases body odor. ouob

Didi why ur not posting in anatomy botm?? Ur mainly the science person for bboy!

I don't know what to post, besides old science olympiad anatomy lessons but the powerpoints need to be fixed up because they're kind of terrible and also need to be recorded.

[A Dream Is A Wish (Old)]

Yes! I thought youd be posting more than anyone here calyta. Why don't you make threads with random biological facts?

[calyta]

I thought I would be all over to BOTM more too, I'm just unsure of and a little shy with what to post.