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by Crumb Eye on January 12th, 2005

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After I eat garlic, the odor comes out of my skin for days. What can I do to stop this?

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  • by Thommy on January 13th, 2005

    Thommy

    Part of the properties when eating fresh garlic...it has an odor which permeates, but there may be a few things which could help remedy the odor.

    Try eating a lot of green, leafy vegetables. Parsley is great. Celery could benefit. Greens like collard or turnip or mustard or spinach or alfalfa sprouts, etc. can go a long ways towards handling the odor. Also, you may want to try some fruits like lemon or lime. Eat some of those with the rind to help rinse out the system. Oatmeal or oats could help somewhat. Raw potato may be of benefit. Slider48 has some good advice.

    I should mention that the probiotics of fresh vegetables alone can help a person. In other words, when eating fresh greens, you can obtain beneficial microbes in a way that is similar to yogurt's beneficial microbes.

    Working up a sweat shortly after eating garlic can help expedite it through your system.

    Different people have different body types and eating habits and systems, so you will want to experiment with what works well for you.

    The nice part is that garlic has so many benefitial properties.

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  • by frugalsquirrelgirl on April 27th, 2005

    frugalsquirrelgirl

    Great points, everyone.

    In addition to upping the number of green vegetables you eat and the glasses of water you drink, you might want to try a chlorophyllin supplement. Being on a high-protein diet, I've found chlorophyllin to do an amazing job of neutralizing odors. Making sure your diet contains a proper balance of minerals (calcium and magnesium, in particular), taking a comprehensive multi-vitamin with lots of B-12, and at least 15 minutes of daily exercise is also important in keeping your body free of any bad-smelling internal buildup, garlic or otherwise. The more in balance your metabolism and body chemistry is, the less you will smell, period.

    A great site explaining the benefits of chlorophyll and chlorophyllin, and how and why leafy greens are essential to your diet:

    http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/chlorophylls/

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  • by slider48 on January 14th, 2005

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    My wife says the same thing about me after I consume food with lots of garlic. I find that drinking peppermint tea helps. I mean tea that is 100% peppermint leaves. Hot peppermint tea seems more effective for me especially for garlic breath. Good luck!

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  • by Garliconionlover on November 7th, 2008

    Garliconionlover

    Try drinking a 6oz glass of water with 1 tablespoon of baking soda and 1 tablespoon of vinegar ( the vinegar can be either applecider vinegar or just plain white vinegar)added to the water. These combinations should neutralise the garlic odor as well as boost the medicinal effects of the garlic. I hope this works for you. I love garlic and onions and if I do not drink this mixturew after eatin either, I will have odor seeping from my mouth and skin but this has worked for me, keeping both my mouth and skin totally odor free. Hopefully it will work for you to.

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  • by Bob on August 10th, 2008

    Bob

    in the spirit of "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" perhaps "when life gives you garlic, use it to your advantage when chasing vampires." team up with buffy the vampire slayer ... seriously, until i'd read a few of the other responses, i'd never had any hope .... excellent question!!

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  • by iolar1013 on August 10th, 2008

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    Stop eating garlic

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  • by Galeanda on August 10th, 2008

    Galeanda

    Either eat your garlic in a different form like pills with charcoal or parsley or else try to eat parsley at the same time. But it usually doesn't help. It's one of the things that happens.

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  • by wondergreen on August 10th, 2008

    wondergreen

    Pineapple juice helps A LOT!

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  • by saccodirisposte on October 17th, 2006

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    Yes, parsley is good for neutralizing garlic body odor, in fact, parsley is good to help neutralize any kind of body odor. I used to know a woman who was plagued by bad B.O., no matter what kind of deodorants she used, or remedies she tried, and her doctor told her to eat a lot of parsley and this seemed to help her a lot.

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  • by Bull wears a COAT of many colours on November 7th, 2008

    Bull wears a COAT of many colours

    I used to live in Gilroy, California, The Garlic Capitol of the World, where the garlic is so strong you have to wear a vampire around your neck. What's wrong with smelling like garlic? (beats the heck out of what some people smell like!)

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  • by uncacal on November 7th, 2008

    uncacal

    I almost always add parsley whenever I use garlic. Definitely works for me. (Exceptions: caesar dressing and bagna cauda)

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  • by Deidre on April 14th, 2009

    Deidre

    If you're preparing the garlic yourself, you could cut the middle part out of the garlic (the stem). This is the part that makes your skin smell. The French chefs cut this part out when cooking. That's why the French don't smell like garlic.
    Unfortunately, this is also the part which has the antibiotic property in it.
    A Vietnamese colleague once gave me a recipe for the common cold. 3 cloves of garlic (raw) smashed up in the juice of 1 1/2 lemons. The next day I could smell the garlic coming out of my skin but my cold had completely disappeared. Garlic, onion, lemon, pasley...these are all used as natural antibiotics here in France.
    When cooking for my family, I never cut out the stem. My family hasn't been sick for a while. But when I'm cooking for company, I always take it out.

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  • by R U Sirius on November 7th, 2008

    R U Sirius

    why would you want to do that? Good for stopping Vampires....................

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