:One thing I've wondered is whether people who bathe infrequently or not at all might have a different bacterial flora that is better adapted to that condition, so that they might smell less than someone who abruptly stops after a lifetime . ( By and large the smelly compounds are lipid products like small carboxylic acids, still highly reduced and, in theory, could be oxidized by microbes for energy ) But I doubt anybody funds research into this one . : ) talk ) 20 : 16, 5 October 2013 ( UTC)
