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These leaves are known to have detoxifying properties that help cleanse toxins from the body.
17 April 2024 19:10
Brilio.net - When you are doing activities in a busy public place, you may have come across someone who gives off sour body odor. Maybe sour body odor has become a common problem that can reduce a person's self-confidence and affect their social interactions. Not only is it annoying for you, the smell of sour body odor can also make the people around you uncomfortable.
Usually, sour body odor is caused by a chemical reaction between sweat produced by the sweat glands and mixed with bacteria on the skin. When the body experiences physical activity or stress, the sweat glands become more active, causing greater sweat production. This sweat then reacts with bacteria on the skin, causing an unpleasant odor.
Apart from being influenced by physical activity, sour body odor can occur due to diet. Certain foods, such as spicy foods, onions, or red meat can affect a person's body odor. Then the habit of smoking, consuming alcohol, and lack of maintaining cleanliness can also make body odor sour.
So that your body smells delicious and fresh, you need to use deodorant. But sometimes deodorant actually makes body odor more annoying or irritates the skin for some people. As an alternative, you can make natural deodorant.
As was done by the Instagram account user @resepzaidulakbar_. In the short video, the account owner makes a drink concoction made from mangkokan leaves and pure honey.
Mangkokan leaves (Phyllanthus niruri) are a plant that is often used in traditional medicine because of its active compound content. Mangkokan leaves are known to have detoxification properties that help cleanse toxins from the body. By cleansing toxins, it can help reduce the possibility of unpleasant body odor.
Several studies show that mangkokan leaves have antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties, which can help reduce the growth of bacteria that cause body odor when consumed regularly.
Meanwhile, the addition of pure honey is able to fight bacteria because of its antibacterial properties. Not only that, honey can also freshen your breath and overcome sour body odor that comes from the mouth.
Those are the benefits you can get from these two ingredients. So how do you make a drink concoction to treat sour body odor? For those of you who want to try, you can follow the steps briliobeauty.net reported by Instagram user @resepzaidulakbar_, Wednesday (17/4).
Materials and tools:
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- 5 mangkokan leaves
- 1 glass of water
- Pan
- 1 tablespoon honey
How to make:
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1. Prepare a pan on the stove.
2. Pour a glass of water.
3. Boil the mangkokan leaves, which have been cut into pieces and washed, for five minutes.
4. Wait until it cools.
5. Pour into a clean glass.
6. Pour in pure honey and stir until evenly mixed.
7. Consume this concoction every day so that the sour body odor disappears.
Can mangkokan leaves get rid of bad breath?
Mangkokan leaves can not only eliminate sour body odor, this natural ingredient can also treat bad breath. Mangkokan leaves contain active compounds that have antimicrobial properties. This content is claimed to help reduce the growth of bacteria in the mouth which causes unpleasant odors.
Not only that, mangkokan leaves also have anti-inflammatory properties which can reduce inflammation in the mouth. Chewing mangkokan leaves directly or using boiled water can clean food residue, bacteria and plaque from the mouth.
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Disclaimer: This translation from Bahasa Indonesia to English has been generated by Artificial Intelligence.
