Women More Like a New Pet Odor Shaved Armpits

Shaving armpit hair is usually done by women and men rarely do. But studies show women prefer the smell of a newly shaved armpits.

A group of scientists from the Czech Republic armpit odor samples collected from a group of men who shave while other groups are allowed to grow. Then women were asked to rate how attractive odor.

Given women prefer a shaved underarm odor, although this effect is only temporary.

Researchers also found the smell of newly shaved armpits more unpleasant than the smell of which was overgrown armpit hair for 6-10 weeks, although women can not tell which smells just a week or 10 weeks.

These results are something of a surprise, because the new armpit hair 1 week only a few millimeters in length, so it became an unexpected result.

Scientists think armpit hair is longer in humans than other apes, this is because it evolved to maintain the chemicals produced by glands of the body.

Armpit hair is to protect the skin from dirt and bacteria, and serves to protect the armpit of toxic substances that will come from outside the body. Not only that, armpit hair also serves to protect the vital organs that are nearby such as the breast.

Meanwhile underarm odor that comes from the sweat produced by apocrine glands that contain a liquid saturated fatty acids. Each hair armpit contain bacteria that play a role in the process of decay, if it mixes with fluid will cause body odor.