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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Nitryfing Bacteria and/or Mother Dirt. I see people mentioning that some people who stop showering end up smelling rather nic
by audunw 6y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Nitryfing Bacteria and/or Mother Dirt. I see people mentioning that some people who stop showering end up smelling rather nice over time, especially if they've been in contact with nature or living on farms. But some people can also stink if they stop showering
There's a class of bacteria that are quite important to preventing bad smells, Nitrifying Bacteria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrifying_bacteria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrifying_bacteria
They're quite sensitive, and is easily killed off by soap. You'd usually acquire them from contact with soil, but most of us aren't in daily contact with soil.
I've tried to breed the bacteria myself. I found a recipe for a medium for growing nitrifying bacteria, and just used some soil from the garden to start it. Sprayed the resulting water on one armpit and not the other. Asked my wife to smell both armpits after 3 days or so, and she found that the one I had sprayed smelled much better (I didn't tell her which was which)
There's a company that sells a spray with this kind of bacteria: https://motherdirt.com/ https://motherdirt.com/
I've tried it and also found it has a similar effect. Can't say for sure that it increased the health of my skin much, I don't have many problems with my skin these days anyway (I use body wash, but only gentle and perfume free ones and not much/often)
I'd probably buy a spray with bacteria and use it daily if it was cheaper and I could buy it locally. I think in the future, probiotics for the skin will be as common as probiotics in food. It just makes sense.
I think it should be possible to make a simple procedure from making a probiotic treatment from soil that anyone could follow, similar to how people make sour-bread now a days. The procedure I used was way too complicated, but if you have access to clean soil, should be possible to just use a sieve to clean it up, mix in a thing or two that helps the nice bacteria multiply, leave it for a while and then apply it somehow.
- phyzome 6y agoI tried just rubbing dirt in one armpit for a couple months a while back, to no effect. I'll have to try the more principled approach (what process did you use?), or maybe just give the AOB spray a shot and see what happens.