Apocrine

There are, however, different kinds of sweat that are produced in different sweat glands across the human body.

Apocrine and eccrine glands are the two most frequent, and they are the source of most of our body odor problems.

There are about 200 eccrine sweat glands per square centimeter, and they can be found fully developed at birth all over the human body, save for the lips and the glands penis.

The sweat that they produce varies, but it is mostly comprised of water, like 99% regular H2O, though it also contains sodium, potassium, calcium, and lactate, among other things.

That'd be awful.

Yeah, or else, you know, we'd have some pretty salty kisses.

Apocrine glands, on the other hand, are a bit different.

They can only be found where body hair is grown, as they open and secrete into hair follicles.

So, you know, if anything, we want showers to be short, you know, and less than five minutes lukewarm rather than really hot water.

And then I always prefer that people are only using the soap in the places that have Apocrine glands, so under the arms, in the groin, those sort of areas.

And if possible, to use a soap substitute rather than an abrasive soap or a soap that's going to really take off those skin cells.

Do you need soap at all?