Smelly people with BO that don't shower or bathe

I know I sometimes smell a bit ripe, not because I have a condition, but because I don't really care what other people think. I wash enough to stay healthy, no more than that. I like to get plenty of wear out of my clothes too. My skin and hair are in excellent condition because I don't remove the natural protective oils by over washing. I don't like the smell of deodorant and the expellent gasses tend to cause lung problems.

The problem is not the people who smell, that is the natural way, how it was for hundreds of thousands of years and how it will be after the current fad for excessive washing passes. The washing compulsion most of you have is a sickness. You all clearly are not comfortable in yourselves or you would not need to try and loose your natural smell, and the vanity industry capitalises on this.

what a complete insensitive idiot who ever wrote this, at least 1 in 20 people suffer from some sort of metabolic disorder, when you eat , it digests, creating smells , alittle like a wheelie bin when food is put in it , the body is the same and toxins excrete from the body , some times its not the persons fault and its hell to live a life smelly bad all the time even whe you shower 4 times a day. open your eyes. I wonder what your personal ilness it, or by reading the above you suffer with a lack of intelect.

Anamika I gather your from another country and youve come to gb to study? Well bend down and kiss the ground you walk on! Be greatfull your here! I hope you fail medicane and get sent back to were ever it is you came from! Dont diss a 90 year old woman for not being able to bathe herself or clean up, as her carer thats your job! You really have got a nerve!

I abslutely agree with you. I have a co-worker who has terribly bad breath. Her teeth are coated with yellow and brown stains and pieces of food are stuck in betwen her teeth. Because they are not allined at all, it made the situation unbareable. What makes things worse is she constantly snaks. Aditionally, her feet smell. The odor is similar to rotten leather or something equivalent. Because of her bad breath and foot ordor, I barely can breath!!

omg there's this dude in my class who has a bad B.O and people would tell him that he smells and he just doesnt study us he is a very ignorent person but one day out class teacher called him infront of the class and told him that he needs to bathe and use soap and I know that he must have felt embarrased but he learned his dang lesson since that day he now smells great people could now stand near him without getting a lung infection lol

anamika - you are planning a career in medicine? You wont last 5 mins with that judgemental attitude. I worry about her in your supposed 'care' with your apalling attitude to how she chooses to live her life. You are paid to do a job not look down your nose at her!

I work for a 90 year old as her private nurse/care giver as I am an online student and this is a great great job to study 8-10 hours a day that I love to. She is a political activist and well "quite" intelligent HOWEVER, since I joined this job 3 months ago, she has never sponged herself, leave aside taking a bath, never washed her hair, never changed her bra, changed her pants and panties TWICE in three months and wears the same "stinking" sweaters every single day. Highly stubborn, very alert and I just fail to understand this character. Her children are so normal and their houses are immaculate and I guess they have given up on her. Ugh !! I just feel like screaming with frustration some days. Is it psychological? She piles up so much food and "things" that it is sickening to find food cans from the 80s. It seems she defies, every bloody law of science and hygiene. She does smell a bit, ( from her head only ) and her sweater but otherwise it is still humanly possible to stand next to her and not pass out ! She is a holocaust victim and a co-worker tells me sometimes it is a major pscyhological issue with them?? She is not financially straining or anything, but I hate it when she asks me to save every bread plastic bag and even the plastic bags in which they throw the newspaper she subscribes too. All the medicine paper bags, every single empty bottle of any vitamin/meds. NOTHING - can be thrown out. Ugh. God give me the strength to stayput as it pays for a full time job and I can study my heart out which is the only thing that keeps me alive and sane. I am looking forward to my medical career and this is teaching me patience and not taking anything "personally" It is just her way of life and I will "delete" this memory of being here, as soon as I walk out to the Normal world :-) Wish me luck you guys, that I can hang in here and not fall sick watching her day in and day out.

I had to tell a female co-worker once that she had bad BO. People were gossiping behind her back and she was a really nice person - you just could not stand next to her. I was as quiet and delicate as I could be. She was mortified and unaware of it. She stopped being smelly after that and the gossips turned on someone else.

My stepson and his girlfriend both stink to high heaven, so much so that it's unbearable to be in the same room as them, in fact she stinks more than he does. She has two kids who both stink, which is going to prove a terrible handicap for them and we now have a granddaughter who at least gets bathed once or twice a week when she stays at our house.
This is NOT a medical handicap on anybody's behalf; it is simply two people who don't clean themselves, their house (which stinks worse if that's possible) or their kids.
If the subject's ever brought up he might say something like "I know, it's this T shirt, I've had it on for a few days" which is untrue as they wear clothes until they rot off their backs, she walks round their filthy house in bare feet constantly until only the cyclical change in skin surface takes the old dirt away.
At least there are no problems in the workplace as the two of them are too lazy and selfish to actually earn a living and the benefit system here in the UK is so advanced it let's this kind of s**t go on.
But that's another rant.
The upshot of all this though, is that somebody has to sit down and talk to them and it looks as though tha person is going to be me!
Wish me luck...

I think people who can`t keep themselves clean are simply too inconsiderate to care about the effect their smell has on other people, & too lazy to turn on the taps & find the soap.

An individual with a body odour problem may become accustomed to the smell but surely their partner notices & they are best placed(ugh) to tell their loved one. Once this problem is taken to the workplace it becomes a much more sensitive issue & has to be handled professionally but without the individuals pride or standing with their workmates being harmed.

It's not really on topic but "they" do recommend liquid soap over bar soap, particularly if you live alone. You are less likely to slip and fall if you use liquid because it doesn't form a slippery scum as readily as solid soap. The non-slip bottle surface sounds like one the dragons might like.

I am tired of trying to hold onto the liquid bath soap in those slippery smooth dispenser bottles when I take a shower. Invariably the bottle will slip out of my grasp while I'm trying to squirt the soap on the scrub brush. Thjs happens whether my hands are wet or dry. Can't they put a less slippery surface on the bottles so I won't fall trying to hold onto or pick the bottle up?

I shower everyday but my odor does not go away. And I am sick and tired of all those peoples making comments about me saying that I dont shower, and that I am stupid and bla bla bla. I know its some rare medical condition that makes me smell so bad. I've been suffering from it for 2 years and only a while ago I found a lucky website bodyodosupport.com where many people suffer from different rare dissorders that make them smell bad. from them I learned more about the causes of my odor. I heard that excluding foods with a lot of chemistry in them will reduce the odor. right now my diet is mostly salads and fruits. I hope my odor will go away when ill go to school this september. here take a look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy4f7rUicVA

I prefer roll-on gels as it takes the sweat longer to penetrate through. Deodorant sprays perform limited use so I avoid them, they are pretty useless really.

@Minesweeper, you meant Bromex Foamer? This a foam you use like soap that's right. They recommed to use it after your daily washing routine, twice a day. You can either get this foam from amazon or at http://sweatrelief.info. Hope it helps you. Jean

Jean, I need some of this stuff, seriously. Where do I get bromex soaper?! Thanks.

Sorry, I can't agree with you here. It might be gross, but in fact there are people who can shower as much as they can, but they'll still have the smell on them. This has nothing to do with hygiene. Permanent body odour is mostly a health issue, the name of this commonly unknown illness is Bromhidrosis. This is caused by special bacterias beeing out of natural balance on the skin. This bacteria divides the sweat and produce airy acids which we know as the "typical the smell of sweat". People who are suffering from bromhidrosis need to reduce their sweating (by antiperpsirants) plus they need to fight the bacterial flora on their skin. Using special washing foams with natural disinfectants like Ripwort and Liquorice Root (for example BromEX Foamer) help in most cases. Deodorants and normal soaps or shower gels do NOT help in any way! Also people should stay away from aggressive disinfectants like Triclosan!

I think my Colleague Vicky smells, but dont no how to approach her so im writting this on here and posting it on our big screen so she can see.

Brilliant. So do you think people actually go to work wanting to be the person that's ostracized and ridiculed. There are people that don't have the highest standards or personal hygiene but others have health issues. Think and get educated before pour out this ignorant rubbish.