Honey, I stunk the kids

[Dawni]

My family has an experience with honey and beeswax that I'm not sure helps anyone lol but it's added info, in case.. Yknow.. Haha

They recommend using any soap with honey (and/or beeswax until I can positively say which one is the culprit) either only on your face, or all over with the exception of your armpits.

Hahaha

Four people from four different households (all relatives), who all have very different daily stuff, and who like to eat different foods, and don't live nor work near each other.. Have all reported an increase in stink when they used, even just once, my one n only beeswax n honey soap.

Go figure. It could be the honey or the wax but I suspect the honey since it's a known humectant.. But then again, if some sites are to believed, beeswax in soaps "add moisture." And this country has high humidity almost always. Why would we want more moisture on our pits right???

Needless to say, they all stopped using it on their bodies and only on the face. I'm proud to say they all love it now that it's not stinking them up lol

Anyone has any experienced like this Or am I just sharing TMI on my once stinky relatives? Haha

 

[Marilyn Norgart]

you are funny!! I have not used bees wax in soap but I have used honey--now you have me wondering if I stank afterwards and just didn't realize it---thanks for that!!

 

[Obsidian]

I notice when I use beeswax that it leaves a slight waxy residue on my skin. Great for my dry skin but maybe not so great in a humid area or for oily skin.
Try making the same recipe but without the wax and have them test that.

 

[earlene]

Too much beeswax in soap does make it draggy, which I suspect is the residue of which Obsidian speaks. Do you know yet if it was the one with beeswax, yet? How much beeswax was in it if it was?

I have not noticed added odor with beeswax, but who knows? I don't tend to pay that close attention to if my soap makes me smell more than usual unless it's a longer lasting FO, since some of them do remain on the skin a bit longer than expected.

I don't use honey very often, either, so no comment on how it would effect body odor.

 

[Dawni]

@Marilyn Norgart if you decide to test your honey soaps for stink lemme know hahaha

I notice when I use beeswax that it leaves a slight waxy residue on my skin. Great for my dry skin but maybe not so great in a humid area or for oily skin.
Try making the same recipe but without the wax and have them test that.

That's the plan. I really want to see if it's indeed the wax. I will definitely report back to this thread a few months from now.

@earlene I have just that one soap that has beeswax and I used 1.5%.

With the humidity and heat here, the pollution, and the horrendous traffic and inadequate public transport facilities (third world problems lol) everyone tends to sweat tons. I know several people who carry a change of clothes, or at least shirts, to work because they'll end up sweating like pigs on the way.

That's another reason commercial deodorants are a big thing. I know females who use the men's ones because it controls the sweat and stink more, to the detriment of their glands I'm sure lol

 

[earlene]

With only 1.5% beeswax, it sure seems unlikely that there is enough residue left on the skin to affect the sweat glands.

How much honey? I can see honey residue (if there is any, which I suppose could happen if there is enough and rinsing off is inadequate) might feed the bacteria and therefore lead to more odor.