KEEP THE AIR FRESH WHEN YOU REMOVE YOUR SHOES: FOOT DEO HELPS PREVENT SMELLY FEET
When the day comes to an end, you gather around the fire in your mountain hut with all those hiking boots drying out next to you. This is the moment when you are especially glad you used foot deodorant! But there are other occasions when it’s a good feeling to take off your shoes without embarrassing smells.
Everybody has their very own smell. It is produced by special sweat glands in the skin, called apocrine glands. Another factor that determines our body odor is the skin microbiome, which is the bacteria on our skin as a whole. These break down the odor secretion and components in the sweat, and in the process they produce degradation products like butyric acid that smell unpleasant. Butyric acid gives off the pungent smell that is typical of sweat. When your feet are kept in impermeable boots all day, sweat and bacteria collect inside and fresh air cannot reach them. This creates quite a cocktail of odors in the evening! Foot deodorant with substances that work naturally help to keep the air fresh.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEODORANT AND ANTIPERSPIRANT?
The term deodorant means that it hinders unpleasant smells (e.g., from sweaty feet). This is possible in three ways: firstly, by fighting against the bacteria that create the odors. Secondly, by binding the compounds that smell unpleasant. And thirdly, by masking the smell with perfumed oils. In contrast, antiperspirant blocks the sweat glands, which prevents sweating (transpiring) before the typical smell appears.
