Do you think that if a person has had body odor for a few years, that all of their clothes (even the freshly washed ones) have the malodorous bacteria on them in the armpit region
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Hi Dominic, thanks for your question. This is different for everyone and every textile. There are severe & rare cases where this might happen. But for most people this will not be the case. The clothes bacteriome is different than the underarm skin bacteriome. There is a selective enrichment on clothes and in many cases, these will be non-smelly bacteria. It also depends which textile it concerns. Natural fibers are less prone to BO development, synthetic ones are more prone to it. But it is a fact that bacteria remain on clothes after laundering and after a while they (and their smell) become persistent.
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