If you hadn’t, I would have. Had the same video cued up and everything.
My Daddy died at 86. He never smelled anything but pleasant. I cleaned his house many times. His bedroom never smelled.
He was just very clean (Paul McCartney’s Grand-dad is now in my head)
Daddy liked scent. He had many bottles on his dresser. I never smelled it over strong on him tho’. He took the time to figure out how much to use.
He was no saint, but he smelled nice.
It’s not as bad as I’m painting. We do make them clean their bathroom and bedrooms, and do their own dishes and laundry. We are just naturally clean people, and not having our own kids, we were surprised at their “funk” as well as their nocturnal ways, and they obviously have much lower standards on what they consider “clean”. Our friends with kids assure us it’s part of the package, both the smells and the wish to be nocturnal. They also smell much better than when they arrived.
The silver lining is we thought we’d have the younger for 5 years (the older for 1 year - they came at different times) but they will be moving in with an actual parent fairly soon so only 1.5 years for the younger. We do love these two, but good lord they try our patience at times. They will be nearby so we’ll see them often, but they will go home to sleep at a different house.
Oh good.
I was a tad bit worried.
Even your own kids would grow up, eventually. And take the funk with them.
It’s amazing how fast they come home bringing the funky grandkids around.
They must think this ol’Granny loves it.
Like I said, we deal with it. One smell at a time.
Without Doctor Lume.
It’s not though. I finally resorted to Lume when I developed a serious foot-stink problem that I couldn’t resolve. If I could smell my feet from 5-1/2 feet away, that meant you could too. And the smell would start up just a couple of hours after showering, socks or no. I think I picked whatever it was up from either a hotel room carpet or the rug in my “kitten room” when Mercedes had her litter. I simply could not find a good solution. I might make the smell go away for a bit but then my own shoes and sandals would reinfect my feet with whatever the bacteria was. I finally gave into the Lume ad and ordered some even though I was (and still am) skint. Lo and behold, it really helped. I could make it through the day and usually into the next one without the dreaded foot stink.
Lume didn’t cure the problem. But it helped me greatly because I could not afford to replace all my footwear and still needed to go out in public and find a job. Now that I’m back in a home of my own, I’ve been able to attack the problem more seriously. I still need to replace most of my footwear. I am slowly gathering replacement footwear so that I can toss all the infected stuff at once and start wearing the new stuff. So big thanks to Lume for helping me.
I’m so happy it helped you.
I guess the stuff probably works.
I couldn’t stand the feel of it. Maybe on my feet it would of been ok.
I just really hate those ads. Really really. Hate Them.
I’m not terribly aware of the ads, though I did find them obnoxious on the radio station my evil boss always had playing in the office. But I don’t have a TV and I mostly listen to public radio stations (musical ones) so I don’t hear many ads either.
I love Lumi. I do have an old person smell. This stuff is really amazing. It smells like ass when it goes on I’m not gonna lie but it dissipates pretty quickly and has a faint fragrance and then I don’t have that old lady smell all day. I’m not doing a commercial for them. I’m just saying you do smell different as you age. I don’t really think it’s offensive, just not the way I want to smell.
Lumē.
I spelled it wrong in my OP, as Lumi. Then I thought it was Lumé.
I watched the ads today and figured it out.
I’ve definitely heard of the “cancer smell”, although I haven’t heard as much about it in recent years as I did when I was much younger.
Did you ever see a doctor about this?
I have heard that some people of East Asian descent do not get B.O. and don’t need deodorant as long as they keep themselves clean. Does anyone know if this is true?
I’m not entirely East Asian. (My mother was Japanese, but my father was not.)
I can work up a stink, I assure you. So maybe my descent isn’t East Asian enough?
Plenty of boring Caucasians are like that too.
My brother is one. Hasn’t had a shower or bath in years, does wash his hair weekly-ish to de-oil it, does physical labor every day, and smells not at all.
I’m a mostly-lazy indoors person who reeks after doing only small physical effort. Despite heavy showering.
There’s probably a connection between sweating heavily enough regularly enough enough to develop a healthy mix of skin bacteria versus killing most with excessive cleaning, then overfeeding the few noxious survivors with the wrong sort of sweat from unaccustomed labor.
IME race has zero to do with it.
I worked in the anti-perspirant/deodorant category for several years.
My understanding:
- Humans have two kinds of sweat glands: eccrine and apocrine.
- Eccrine sweat glands are all over the body, and secrete what we usually think of as “sweat”: salty water which is meant to cool the body off.
- Apocrine sweat glands are clustered in areas of the body where we typically have short, wiry hair: underarms, groin, nipples, etc. I’ve seen apocrine sweat described as a “pale milky goo,” and may play a role in transmitting pheromones. Apocrine sweat also contains proteins and carbohydrates which are food for bacteria.
- The parts of the body where apocrine sweat glands are located are also usually covered by clothing, making them even warmer and damper, and thus, a great environment for bacteria.
- Bacteria eat the contents of the apocrine sweat, and release waste gas, which is odorous.
- Many people of Asian descent have fewer apocrine sweat glands than those of other backgrounds, and/or have apocrine sweat which isn’t attractive to bacteria. Hence, less body odor.
No, I had far more pressing issues to discuss with my doc and not much money to spend on doc visits. This was pretty far down the list.
I’m going to add that current-day antiperspirants and deodorants work MUCH better than the ones even 20 or so years ago. I can’t think of the last time I “pitted out” (i.e. my deodorant stopped working) and the modern preparations don’t stain clothing, at least not like the old ones did.
Back in my active practice days, I was asked a few times about remedies for excessive sweating, and told them about Drysol, not very expensive and available by prescription only (and covered by insurance every time I ran it through), which is stronger than anything available OTC and usually works quite well. It can also be used on areas other than armpits, like palms or soles. It also did not require a visit to a specialist; a family doctor could prescribe it.