• magiccupcake
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    1 day ago

    Wearing natural fabrics helps a lot too. They can absorb and make moisture unavailable so the bacteria aren’t able to produce as much of a scent.

    Wool is fantastic at this, but other fabrics can too like cotton and linen. Polyester in the other hand does not absorb water at all, it just sits in the surface of the fabric letting the bacteria have their feast and producing smells.

    • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
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      19 hours ago

      Linen’s good at it, cotton’s pretty bad, rayon however is excellent (aka viscose, “bamboo” etc) despite being semi-synthetic.