Oh lord! Teenage boys’ bedroom 🤢

[GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat]

Wow! Just wow! I had no idea. I mean, you read and hear stories but nothing can prepare you for that smell. What IS it?

Both shower daily, use deodorant (will be getting anti-perspirant ASAP) and are generally clean and tidy, change clothes daily and bedding is washed regularly.

Both very lovely boys no trouble at all so I feel terrible telling them they need to freshen up.

But my god, it’s bad!!

Any tips?

Surely unless you are washing the actual duvet and pillow, changing the bed linen only removes 1/2 the stink?

Even when he showers regularly he smells sort of fusty and greasy an hour later. I assume it will settle down as he gets older? I hope so anyway!

It means he isn’t showering properly. My ds is starting to smell funky and when he showers, he smells afterwards. If I wash him then he smells fresh for longer because I do it properly. (He’s nearly 10 and just starting puberty)

Do people teach their children how to wash themselves properly?

I teach a subject that attracts mostly women students.

If I have to use a seminar room that's been previously used by a mostly male tutorial group, it stinks.

Have you tried cleaning with OrangeMate? It is not too chemically but deals.effectively with lots of odours.

Do people teach their children how to wash themselves properly?

It’s a work in progress in our house.

But this is all part of teaching boys/men that women are responsible for caring for them. It’s absolutely fine to teach a 10 year old how to wash himself. By 16?

DS I can wash his bedding on a hot wash put on the line till bone dry, it still has that funny smell. Must be hormones. He does not smell though, uses soap these days and a stick deodorant, the spray is just for effect. He said all the lads were using the old fashioned stick at school for extra protection. I wash his trainers before they start to smell. Also use a mattress protector. Binned all his pillows and bought new ones recently.

It really is a weird smell.

It’s not just teenage boys my girls honk too even the one who is never out of the shower.

I think it’s hormones.

I assume hormones. My teenage DS washes more than me and his room is scrupulously clean. It still smells!

DS1 didn't really smell & certainly doesn't now. DS2's room honks. I assume it's a mixture of farts & semen 🤮. He showers plenty, sheets changed every week but the carpet is impregnated.

I would say wash or replace to duvets and pillows. Smells trap in the fibers. Wash curtains and nets. Investigate the mattress. Might need some airing in the sun. Can shampoo the carpet too.

They should have been taught how to wash themselves properly from a very young age, did anyone see that episode of some crap on Ch4 where a man didn’t know he had to retract his foreskin and actually wash his nob and it was sore and infected due to him being filthy? Humans need to scrub off dead skin, use actual soap bars, actively wash their bodies. There’s a ‘greasy neck’ smell that permeates fabric, and the stench people radiate when they’ve slept in their clothes or not washed for a day or two 🤮

You aint lived until you have smelt dirty linen in a boys boarding school, I had to hold my nose and run past the sorting room at school.

I’m glad it’s not just my teenage son!

He has a shower every morning before school or going out to his friend’s. Clean clothes every day and leaves his shoes by the front door. But the smell in his room 😩 just rotten!

I've never taught my boys how to wash themselves, I thought this stuff just came naturally?!?

It's the girlfriends I feel sorry for, they spent ages in their rooms....

TBH my boys rooms don't smell but I'm a stickler for open windows, I still remember my brothers room growing up....