This is why the clasp of your earring has the smell of smelly cheese
Did you also smell an unpleasant cheesey odor coming from the back of your earrings?
There is a health reason for this strange and unpleasant odor - and the problem is completely solvable
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28/12/2021
Tuesday, 28 December 2021, 23:31
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Get ready to be disgusted: The reason why the back of your earrings have a stinky cheese smell has been revealed.
For those of you who have earrings you will surely come across the bad smell that comes out of them, sometimes referred to as "cheese ears".
Well, you may not have heard of the name - but you probably know the unique smell.
Do not worry, the strange smell that is sometimes accompanied by grayish dirt on the back of the earring is completely normal.
In fact, the cheese phenomenon appears in a fairly large number of people who have had a piercing.
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This odor is a natural phenomenon of pierced ears and is caused by the accumulation of oil and dead skin cells that you have shed from the ear.
Your body is constantly regenerating and replacing the skin cells - and the ears (especially the perforated area) can be quite a difficult place to clean, leading to an accumulation of dead cells and oily stinking cells when left on the skin trapped between the wing and the earring clasp.
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The newer the hole in the earring, the more likely you are to experience a bad odor from the area - because your body may still be responding to the fresh piercing.
Even people who do not change earrings and those whose perforation area is stretched are more likely to experience the phenomenon of "cheese ears".
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so what are we doing?
If you also suffer from bad smells in this area - the problem is completely solvable.
Just take out the earring, clean it and the piercing area gently and give your ear a short rest before you put the earring back on.
To minimize the appearance of similar odors in the future, be sure to keep the area around the piercing clean and dry and occasionally lower the earring for refreshment.
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