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If she is your best friend, she won't be offended. I would hope that my best friend would tell me. Maybe she really doesn't know or know how to deal with it.
Body odor can be caused by the food one eats, not using strong enough deodarant, not using the correct soap etc. She may need to experiment. As her friend TELL HER!
It's a variety of things. I know some people of Indian stock (the immigrants, not the American-born ones) who have a weird odor because what they eat must come through their pores and you have no choice but to stand away from them. For others, it's a medical condition - such as something like endometriosis (sp), a lady I knew smelled and others noticed it, and it can be something malfunctioning in the endocrine system.
If she is your best friend, she won't be offended. I would hope that my best friend would tell me. Maybe she really doesn't know or know how to deal with it.
Body odor can be caused by the food one eats, not using strong enough deodarant, not using the correct soap etc. She may need to experiment. As her friend TELL HER!
Agreed, It may be ineffective deodorant or lack of it totally. however, Are you sure she does not have some medical concern that may be causing this?
I would say something to her in a gentle way, as a best friend you should be able to unless you are painfully shy or afraid of her possible reaction somehow?
Sometimes when someone's been using the same deodorant for a long time, it quits working for them. You could always casually suggest a different one, as in "Hey, I tried one of those new clinical strength deodorants and it works so well, it's crazy. I mean, it keeps my underarms so dry that I can feel it repelling water in the shower."
Or it could be that she's wearing perfume and it goes weird because of her body chemistry...I've had a few perfumes that I had to quit wearing because they started smelling like onions and garlic on me after the second or third time I wore them.
....and i know she showers daily and everything so i'm not sure what's the cause. i don't want to tell her and offend her over something it's likely that she cannot help.
unsure what to do.
She's a friend, so you should bring it up.
One question that occurs to me: If she is a longtime friend, is this a problem she's had for quite awhile or is it a recent problem? If it is recent, perhaps it is a health or medication problem.
I had a female boss who had this problem, and she also showered every day and used deodorant. When it finally was drawn to her attention - anonymously. She asked me, and I had to tell her, "Yes, you off and on do have very unpleasant BO." Turned out she had no sense of smell, which explained a number of other things that had nothing to do with BO.
But the problem was that as she could not smell her body odor on her clothes, she wasn't dry cleaning or washing some of them frequently enough.
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