Suddely smelly armpits

[Educ8tor]

Since being perimenopausal (46) and with the hot weather, my armpits (one more than the other!) Have become really smelly. I shower in the morning and use ineos or waves apart antiperspirants plus sometimes a top up spritz of dove aerosol. I wear fresh clothes daily and always wear sleeveless tops to try to keep cool. But by the evening, I smell awful and I'm so embarrassed. I have tried driclor before but I am allergic to it (and lots of other antiperspirant deodorants). I have never had an issue with smelling before even after sweating and longer without showering. Can anyone offer any advice please?

I found washing armpits with soap helped massively
And reapplying anti pers a couple of times a day
Definitely a peri issue for me

Same here, I just carry deodorant to work and freshen up at break times. Why just the one armpit though 🙄it’s my left never the right?

someone on here suggested using witch hazel on cotton pads under arms after shower and that worked for me.

I came on to say swap to bar soap too! Game changer!

Same problem, kind of…I hit fifty and started smelling strongly of stale coffee even though I never touch the stuff. Very weird.

Washing with persimmon soap twice a day solved it for me. I then use sanex roll on antiperspirant and a squirt of Neals Yard liquid deodorant and I now smell of nothing but my chosen perfume again.

i use Faith in Nature soap for my pits. I buy it from Holland & Barrett.

Yes mine became smelly after 40 which was a new thing, not had BO since being a teenager. It did improve on HRT and have to use decent deodorant and soap.

I had this as well, one armpit was worse than the other.

It was like this for around 6 months and then randomly went away.

I only use bar soap, or soap as it used to be called and my pits don't smell.

What are people washing their armpits with if not soap?

I had this issue and two things changed it (that were recommended on here).

1. only use soap not shower gel (dettol soap is great)
2. only use a roll on like Mitchum never spray

Took a few weeks but not had a problem since

Yes to soap, and I use AKT deodorant and find it really effective. It’s the best natural deodorant that I have tried.

I had the opposite I suddenly stopped sweating at all and my body hair just stopped- no leg shaving or underarms needed!!

Oh God, totally all of this…..I smelt like I had a dirty kebab under each armpit 😂….. it’s better now I’m the other side of the menopause but on the very hot days we’ve had I can smell it again…..you’ve had some very good advice but to add my two Penneth worth , on those days I use Badedas shower gel….its a heavier one and quite perfumed but works a treat for my Burger pits 😉.. good luck finding something that works x

I’ve mentioned my one arm pit that smells like I’ve fallen asleep with kebab underneath it before on here and there were other sufferers (maybe 20/30 years ago could have been a possibility) dettol bar soap and a good roll on and spray have improved the situation but some mornings I still wake with kebab pit .. Good Luck , menopause, the gift that keeps on giving!

Another vote for soap here. Strangely it was one armpit for me. 😅 Just an inexpensive bar of Aldi antibacterial soap did the trick. I use bar soap in the summer too.

Soap and AKT deodorant fixed it for me!

Ah you and me both !!

If at work, scrub with a paper towel with a bit of soap and water, apply some hand sanitiser then a deo top up.

Hand sanitiser every few days (not after shaving!!) at night just to kill all the bacteria helps no end, then soap and an exfoliating mitt. And men's anti perspirant.

I used perspirex, it has got better post menopause but it was awful at the time.

I'm post-menopause and I've noticed that some mornings I wake up with smelly armpits, and other mornings there's no smell at all, and I put it down to what I've eaten the night before. If it's something that causes me inflammation, then my body has a minor reaction against it. So for example, with pasta I'll smell (gluten) but with rice, I won't.

Mine got better post menopause. Soap helped, natural fibres too.

Another recommendation for old school bar of soap. I also found wild deodorant to be a game changer

Bar of soap (I particularly like the pink Dove) then glycolic acid applied with a cotton pad, let dry and then apply deodorant.

Not much help but I will say roll on has always worked better for me than spray in all brands (then a spray of impulse on my body plus perfume) Using Sanex or Mitchum at the mo but reapplying regularly