No Perfume

The next step on my dailyodors experiments is to extract my own body odor. Therefore, I started to use the products on the picture, Shampoo and Shower Gel without Perfume, so when I try to collect my sweat I make sure it is not influenced by other odors. I'm using them for a week now. Actually, it's amazing to don't be walking around with some random coco, almond, flowerish fragance on my skin.

The Urtekram Shower Gel ingridients are:

Aqua, glycerin, cocamidopropyl betaine, alcohol, sodium coco-sulfate, glyceryl caprylate, coco-glucoside, sodium cocoyl glutamate, sodium chloride, citric acid and tocopheryl acetate.

The Urtekram Shampoo ingridients are:

Aqua, glycerin, coco-glucoside, cocamidopropyl betaine, sodiu coco-sulfate, alcohol, glyceril caprylate, glyceril oleate, sodium cocoyl glutamate and citric acid.

General chemical structure of a paraben
(a para-hydroxybenzoate)
where R = an alkyl group.
Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraben 

As you can read in the ingridients list these two products are parabens free. I decided for it because its seems parabens (regulary used as a cosmetic preservative) have the hability to slightly mimic strogen which might influence directly on our body odor (besides, probably, influence brest cancer and possibly generating early puverty in females).

Anyone out there who already extracted their own odor before? Tips are very welcome!

Form

Hallo!

To be able to have some empirical reserach on my theory, that we all use in daily bases products with very strong smell that block our own body odors, I desinged a short questionnaire, which can be find following this link:


Daily Odors Form


I will publish the results in about a month.

Mixing Mixing

I was wondering how mixing the products we use in our daily day for washing and cleaning our body would smell. Also how the mix with products for cleaning our house would smell together with the body ones.

I made different test.

Mix A: body and house hygiene products

1) 10mL Scouring Cream Lemon (from the Albert Heijn)
2) 3 dosis from Handzoep
3) 1 Was Zacht lid
4) 10ml douchegel StressLess (from Albert Heijn)
5) 2 Elke Dag Palmolive Lids
6) 1 EFWAS (AH) Lid
7) 5 dosis of Handzoep
8) 2 EFWAS (AH) Lids

I poored all the mix in an Ariel Actilift platic botle with some remains of detergent.
The result is some general cleaning product smell, very strong.

Mix B: body hygiene products

1) 10mL douchegel StressLess
2) 2 lids of Elke Dag Palmolive
3) 3 dosis Handzeep

The result is a thick paste, still smelling pretty general to cleaning product, a bit softer than the Mix A.

Mix C: house hygene products

Random mix of Scouring Cream Lemon with AFWAS.

Mix D: body hygiene products + Was Zacht (softener)


1) 10mL douchegel StressLess
2) 2 lids of Elke Dag Palmolive
3) 3 dosis Handzeep
4) 1/4 Was Zas Lid

Today I didn't shower

Today I didn't have a shower.

I also didn't use deodorant, neither my regular perfume (212 Carolina Herrera, NY).

Moreover, I thought I was late (wasn't at the end) to a meeting with my class mates and the head of deparment to talk about how things for graduation are going. You can imagine, it is no one of those compelte relaxed happenings.

I was wondering if the fact of not showering, neither using any hygienic product before the meeting, at 10 am in the morning, will make me feel more insecure or shy at the time of talking.

Now, 5h later, I'm setting at home. I was anylizing how do I feel and the reactions of my body. At the moment, I don't smell to sweat, neither my feet smells like cheese. I've noticed some special reaction of my body temperature: my head, armpits, tights and foot are warmer than usual.

I have to invistigate further if this is a matter of chance or the fact that my skin is freely transpirating, without any product barrier, is really going to change my day.