What Causes Excessive Body Odor?
In our body there are two types of glands that produce sweat viz. Eccrine Gland and Apocrine Gland. The eccrine glands present in the body produces sweat that consists of water along with minute amount of salt, sugar and urea etc. This sweat is colorless and odorless. Through the sweat from this gland, excess heat in the body is expelled out. Body perspires while it sweats hence sweating is a cooling process of the body. On the other hand, apocrine gland produces sweat that consists of little quantity of oil along with the salty water. This sweat causes bad odor because oil in this sweat is the food for the bacteria. As soon as body produces sweat from this gland, bacteria gets hoarded on the perspiring or sweating skin within the fraction of seconds and results in unwanted body odor.