Everyone knows how embarrassed and uncomfortable one may feel with body odor. If you notice, you may realize that it is usually caused by excessive sweating, eating certain foods, poor hygiene, or even stress. Today, let’s look some natural but effective remedy to get rid of body odor.
Dry Brushing
To do this, gently brush your skin with a natural bristle brush before taking shower. This technique helps to exfoliate your skin, remove any dead cells, and unclog your pores. In this way, it reduces the accumulation of bacteria that can cause bad body odor. Instead of brush, you may use a dry small napkin. But brush your skin, that is important.
Application of Neem and Tulsi Paste
Take a handful of neem and tulsi leaves, wash them thoroughly, then grind them to a fine paste. Apply this paste to the parts of your body where body odor is strongest. Both neem and tulsi have powerful antibacterial property. They help in stopping the odor-causing bacteria on your skin. If you don’t have time to make this paste, you may crush these leaves with your hand and soak them in your bath water. That could be for 15 minutes before taking your bath.
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Homemade Antiperspirant
To make this, you will need 1 1⁄2 tablespoon of unrefined coconut oil, 1 1⁄2 tablespoon of cocoa butter or shea butter, 1⁄4 cup of corn flour or arrowroot flour, 1 1⁄2 tablespoon baking soda, 5 drops of lavender essential oil, 2 drops of lemongrass essential oil, and these are the ingredients.
Now, let us see how to make it. Take a deep pot and add water. Now, keep a small steel or glass jar at the center. Add coconut oil and cocoa butter and keep this water pot on medium flame. Bring the water to boil while continuously stirring the ingredients. Just see that the butter is melted and mixed very well. When completely melted, turn off the heat and add the flour, baking soda and stir continuously. Finally, add the essential oils.
Cool this to room temperature and then refrigerate this for setting. Use a small glass bottle to store this antiperspirant. To apply this, wet the underarm with water and then apply a small quantity of this. Applying once in the morning is enough, but if you sweat too much, you can also apply it in the evening.
Apart from these three remedies, there are also other holistic tips. Remember, always give your body time to digest food and clean itself. Allowing your body enough time to digest food between two meals can help prevent build up your body odour, causing compounds in your digestive tract. You may drink lemon infused water. This will alkalize your body and reduce acidity, which can be a reason for your body odour.
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Rub the lemon peel into your skin instead of throwing them away. It can help kill bacteria, give a fresh scent, try to change your diet. You can limit the use of odour producing food such as garlic and onion. Try to experiment with different food choices and see which food causes your body odour and at the same time increase the intake of fruits and vegetables. Make your body smell fresh all the time. Especially eat parsley. Consuming parsley regularly with every meal will help to neutralize your body odour from within.
Parsley contains chlorophyll, which is a natural deodorizer. It not only freshens your breath, but also reduces body odour when you eat it regularly. And lastly, just see if you need to do a test called as H. pylori test. Body odour can sometimes be caused by a health issue such as H. pylori infection. This is a bacterial infection that affects your stomach lining.
See, when it comes to overcoming your bad body odour, first try to understand its cause. Then take a proactive approach. Pay attention to your personal hygiene and lifestyle habits. With the natural remedies and tips I have given you, I hope you will find relief and enhance confidence in your life.