Will shaving armpit hair cause body odor?

Shaving armpit hair is something that many people do, especially in summer. Various devices, ointments and surgeries for removing armpit hair have attracted the most attention in their respective industries. Shaving armpit hair is the safest method among many methods of removing armpit hair. However, whether shaving armpit hair will cause body odor has become a question that everyone has in mind. So, will shaving armpit hair cause body odor?

Many people will encounter people with symptoms of body odor in their lives. For people with body odor, the smell emitted from their bodies is very unbearable. The area where armpit hair is shaved is in the same place as the area where body odor is emitted. Therefore, the question of whether shaving armpit hair will cause body odor can be analyzed below.

What is body odor? Body odor is caused by the secretion of a special yellowish-brown paste-like sweat in the patient's armpits, which is characterized by a specific odor and is also called bromhidrosis. Before puberty, the disease rarely occurs because the apocrine sweat glands secrete less. During puberty, as the body grows significantly, the secretion of apocrine sweat glands also increases significantly, so this is also the peak period for body odor. In old age, the secretion of apocrine sweat glands decreases, and the symptoms will gradually alleviate or even disappear. Moreover, body odor is hereditary.

Why is there a connection between plucking armpit hair and body odor?

Because armpit hair is prone to breeding bacteria, and armpit hair may be attached with odorous sweat or yellowish-brown paste-like sweat, armpit hair should be shaved to treat body odor. Women can shave all their armpit hair, and men can trim their armpit hair to 1 cm. When using medication to treat body odor, the medication can better adhere to the skin, be deeply absorbed by the skin, and also reduce bacterial infection of the skin. But don't pluck your armpit hair, as it will damage the integrity of the skin, weaken the skin's disease resistance, easily cause bacterial infection, and may cause underarm odor.

Frequent plucking of armpit hair can stimulate the apocrine sweat glands in the armpits for a long time, which will cause the apocrine sweat glands to mutate and the permeability of the tube wall to be greater than 75~100nm, allowing lipids and protein substances to be excreted from the body and interact with epidermal bacteria to produce odor. Therefore, plucking armpit hair for a long time may cause underarm odor. Therefore, it is best for girls not to pluck armpit hair for the sake of beauty. They can choose other methods to remove armpit hair.

Pulling out armpit hair will not directly cause body odor, but because armpit hair is prone to breeding bacteria, armpit hair may be attached with smelly sweat or yellowish-brown paste-like sweat, so to cure body odor, armpit hair should be shaved. To treat body odor, you must choose a regular hospital to receive professional treatment, which can completely cure body odor in one go.

To sum up, shaving armpit hair will not cause body odor. When you plan to remove armpit hair by using an armpit shaving tool, you don’t have to worry about whether it will cause the occurrence of body odor symptoms. Therefore, this possibility does not exist. Here we recommend that in order to prevent the occurrence of body odor, you must maintain good hygiene and cleanliness in your daily life.