Watch your body odour
Taking care of your overall health is as important as every other thing you do.
Knowing how to stay healthy is very important. In fact, many health problems can be avoided altogether if you eat well and exercise, practice good hygiene and feel good about yourself.
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Everybody wants to look nice, but feeling attractive can seem especially important during adolescence because of all the big changes you experience. Not only does the body change shape during puberty, it starts producing new smells, new fluids and new worries for many young people.
Practising good personal hygiene can be a very good way to feel more comfortable with your body and all these changes.
Good hygiene is especially important during adolescence, because your skin begins producing more fluids than when you were a child and some of these fluids can cause unpleasant smell if you don’t bathe.
The main fluid you may notice is sweat. Sweat, which is mostly water, is produced by glands in the skin. The sweat glands become much more active when you reach puberty, so many adolescents notice that sweat takes a different smell and taste than the simple watery sweat of a child who has been running in the sun.
Your armpits have many sweat glands, but you also have many sweat glands in your hands, feet and even your genitals, so you may notice that you are perspiring more in these places too.
The smell of your perspiration will change during puberty, but these in the body odour are natural and healthy. They are signs of growing up.
Although some people worry about the smell of their sweat and especially their armpit perspiration, bathing twice a day and wearing clean clothes should be enough to keep you fresh and clean.
If you perspire a lot, you can wear cotton underwear and loose cotton clothes. Cotton is more absorbent than synthetic materials, and it allows air to flow through the clothes, which helps keep you cooler.
Some people put roll-on or spray deodorants to prevent underarm odour, most of them are not so costly and you can buy them on your own by saving a little of your pocket money. You can also ask your parents to buy them for you.
Good hygiene is especially important of girls during their menstrual periods. For washing the genitals, ordinary bathing soap is fine.
You should not use strong antiseptic soaps or deodorants because they can cause irritation.
It is your responsibility to take care of your body on a daily basis look and feel good as much as possible. Your body has to last you your lifetime and it is the only one you will ever have, so you have to take care of it.