We rid your apartment of the smell of old age in simple and reliable ways
Old age is unpleasant to look at, smell and frightens young people - that’s a fact. A characteristic aroma is often emitted not only by elderly people, but also by their homes, and getting rid of the smell of old age in an apartment is not easy. Half measures will not help here. We need to get ready, if not for repairs, then for general cleaning. The use of special sprays, solutions, and folk remedies is the second important point. But first things first.
Source of unpleasant odor in the apartment
The smell of old age is very specific. In Japan there is a separate term for it - kareishu. After 30 years, the aroma of kareishu begins to appear to a lesser or greater extent in every person and only intensifies with age. Its appearance is not related to diet, religion, nationality or skin color.
Why do the bodies and homes of old people smell unpleasant?
- By the age of 50, the production of sex hormones decreases. Of course, this is reflected in body odor. The body is rebuilt, the composition of sweat and metabolism changes, and women experience menopause.
- With age, the skin becomes thinner and requires special care. Regular soap, which old-school people are so accustomed to using, greatly dries out the already dry skin. After hygienic procedures, older people feel frankly uncomfortable; there is a feeling of tightness, itching, and flaking. Therefore, they wash less often than they were used to doing in their youth.
- Insufficient hygiene due to infirmity, illness, loneliness.Decreased vision, arthritis, osteochondrosis and many other age-related diseases significantly impair physical capabilities and agility even in such a seemingly simple task as taking a shower. What if the old man is lonely? Then he simply doesn’t see the point in bothering himself with unnecessary worries.
- Insufficient cleaning, poorly washed linen. For the same reason of weakness, old people clean less and keep their homes clean. They can wear things for weeks without washing them. And if there is no washing machine, then they physically cannot clean the laundry properly.
- Refusal to ventilate for fear of drafts, the habit of eating garlic and onions, the need to take medications (in particular valerian), and storing old things also contribute. Particles of the keratinized skin of an elderly person settle in the apartment, bacteria multiply, and literally everything around is permeated with the smell of old age.
If an elderly person continues to live in the home, efforts should be made to improve its hygiene. The problem of poorly washed laundry will be solved by a washing machine and powder with a fragrance; a dirty body will be solved by a gel with a neutral pH for sensitive skin. A frail old man should be provided with proper care and help with cleaning the apartment on an ongoing basis.
Cleaning the apartment
To get rid of the old smell in your apartment, you need to do a thorough cleaning. Particular attention should be paid to pieces of furniture and things that collect dust.
First of all, high-quality cleaning requires:
- carpets and carpet runners;
- cushioned furniture;
- interior of storage cabinets;
- bed linen, clothes.
High-quality – this means using special means. Hard-to-reach places should also be washed by moving the furniture away. It would be a good idea to wipe down the doors, walls and ceiling. Better yet, change the wallpaper.If rubbish has accumulated in the apartment for a long time, then you need to sort through it and throw out what is unnecessary. These could be old newspapers, magazines, rags, broken chairs, ancient shoes, worn out clothes.
What products will help remove the smell?
To combat a specific odor, you can use different means, ranging from ordinary laundry soap with water and a rag to household chemicals with antibacterial components. Of course, special sprays and liquids are more effective, but they require material waste (on average, 300-400 rubles).
According to reviews and ratings, the following household products are best at eliminating extraneous odors:
- "Bagi Shtihonit." A universal spray that washes, cleans and disinfects upholstered furniture, carpets and hard surfaces.
- "Vanish shampoo for manual cleaning of carpets and furniture." Removes any, even old and persistent stains.
- Unicum spray for stain removal and comprehensive cleaning. The product easily copes with dirt and unpleasant odors.
There are also economical recipes:
- Vinegar solution. 7 tablespoons of table vinegar should be dissolved in 1 liter of warm water and wipe the floors, furniture, and the inside of cabinets with the product. The vinegar solution disinfects and removes odors. For convenience, it can be poured into a container with a spray bottle.
- Potassium permanganate solution. Potassium permanganate must be diluted in water until pink. To eliminate the smell of old age, the product is used to treat floors and closet shelves. Use with caution on light wood, as potassium permanganate can leave stains.
A washing vacuum cleaner and a steam cleaner will help to significantly reduce the cleaning time in the apartment of the elderly.
Finishing touches
After thorough cleaning, it’s time to fill the apartment with new, pleasant smells. For this you can use:
- air fresheners;
- incense sticks and candles;
- bags of herbs;
- orange peel or coffee beans in plates;
- bars of scented soap;
- aroma lamps;
- coniferous branches.
Cooking in a baking room, frequent airing, and clean linen washed with scented powder will help combat the smell of old age. You can arrange flowers around the apartment. In the process of new life, even the oldest aroma will go away. The main thing is to first carry out a high-quality general cleaning.
Thanks, we'll try it.
here they write about potassium permanganate for unpleasant odors. I remember that manganese diluted in water was placed in containers near the bodies of the dead. Indeed, the foul odor disappeared.
I remember that manganese diluted in water was placed in containers near the body of the deceased. Indeed, the nauseating smell disappeared.
My grandmother lives at home - it stinks like hell.
Vanya, maybe you live with her?
Vasya, imagine, and you will grow old, you will become such a stinking grandfather
You will be a grandfather yourself! And your children, if you have them, will turn their noses up at you!
Fuck
Guy, you haven’t forgotten - this is YOUR own grandmother! Aren't you ashamed to say that?!
what did they attack? this is really a problem. try to gently persuade your granny to wash and do laundry more often? help with something? buy her gifts in the form of conditioners, shampoos, etc.?
There is another way - the use of EM drugs.
bullshit. the so-called smell of old age is the smell of dead skin!!! As a person ages, its volume increases. it especially appears on the ears. wash your ears and the smell will disappear!!!
My grandfather smelled so good of honey and wax - I remember it from childhood...
For the elderly, eat less meat, eat honey and season with Indian spices,
Bless you!
and you bathe her once a week at least
You wrote it correctly, you live with her, you don’t like it, get out
My mom turns 90 in 3 days!
I'm 54.
I've been living with her for 19 years. For the last 6 years she has had a chair with a bucket in her room (toilet) covered with a loose lid and a terry towel. Every time after rinsing, I add 1-2 hundred tablespoons of “Whiteness” to the bucket. There is no smell at all: neither toilet nor senile! Cheap and not difficult.
I recommend to all!
Author, how many years do you have left before you start to smell?
Leos or rather when the author starts to “stink”
Cloves help a lot with the smell of old people.
About 6-7 heads per liter jar of boiling water, leave overnight and after cleaning, wiping off dust, walk with a cloth with this solution.
At first the smell is very strong, but air it out and it goes away.
I even wiped the chair with it, it helped.
I rented an apartment where two grandmothers had previously lived, the smell was very persistent, and only cloves helped me overcome it. I found this recipe in the magazine Selskaya Nov.
Please clarify what kind of cloves you are talking about. Why "heads"? Are these flowers or whole clove spice?
The smell of cloves makes me feel sick...
Vanya and you will be a grandfather!
Let's go to our village. The fresh air smells good there.
What if people have lived in the city all their lives and are not adapted to village life?
However, you are a strange woman... you send people somewhere they don’t need to go... maybe you’ll go there yourself?
Vasya, I will advise your grandmother to kick you out, and if you want to stay, then clean the apartment more often
Vasya, didn’t you think that you stink too, but grandma is silent and doesn’t want to offend you, think about yourself.
Vasya will definitely stink in his old age and his grandchildren will tell him the full story
Vasya will definitely stink in his old age and his grandchildren will be happy to tell him about it
He's already writing in writing
And Vanya is right, why not wash with soap. with a moisturizing gel and wash your clothes more often. I AM A GRANNY TOO.
To whom? Vasya? )) Yes, it would be nice to wash grandma’s clothes and bed linen, look, it wouldn’t get torn! )) Moreover, most people have had washing machines for a long time... And not only old people, but also sick people and some young people have a specific smell, so much so that it’s “harsh”, to use Vasya’s language)) So what now? All of them to a desert island? or, as some here write, to the village, to the fresh air? )) You need to be kinder and more merciful, and everyone will be happy) And in order to remove the unpleasant smell, it is enough to invite someone from the cleaning center or yourself, for those who are younger and healthier to clean more often and for the elderly to help with cleaning and washing.
We had fun. Old age, it turns out, begins at the age of 50))) Tell the government
If only from 50! It says after 30 the smell has already started! And for me, young people also stink. You're riding on a bus in the summer, and next to you is a well-fed young woman, and she smells of sweat mixed with deodorant and cheap eau de toilette. And the smell of cigarettes comes from my mouth. You turn away and there’s a young gentleman with yesterday’s fumes and the same cigarettes. At least go out and walk. Old people stink of it! Smell yourself!
What kind of horrors? This only happens after 80 in lonely old people. And mainly due to the fact that old people (people over 80 are old, not after 50) are afraid of catching a cold, and they are cold because of poor blood circulation. Therefore, DO NOT VENTILATE!!! Plus they wash less often and change their laundry less often. If a young person washes once a week and changes his socks and underwear also once a week, then he will stink much faster. Because in youth, profuse sweating. So if you don’t like the smell, ventilate it! Wash grandma’s clothes, change the bed linen, help her wash. My mother-in-law and father-in-law are both 88 years old and there is no stink.Although they block the windows specifically. When I arrive, I immediately ventilate it.
Teenagers too, they really stink. I work at a school and know it first hand.
In the personnel application for retirement they write asking to be dismissed due to old age, this was 4 years ago.
Die before old age. How do you like it?
the pension fund will be happy for this
the pension fund will thank you
THE PROBLEM IS THAT YOUTH IS NOT ETERNAL AND NEITHER HEALTH. YOUNG RELATIVES FORGET. TO RESPECT OLD AGE AND HELP THEM. THEN THEY WILL NOT STINK.
Old age doesn't smell. The article was written by an idiot. It smells unsanitary.
I agree completely…..
That's not the smell you're thinking about
Read it and gasp! We're already thirty... but at fifty it's already time... but it's still too early to retire... People, what should we do???? I understood why I don’t let him in, so that we sit at work and don’t stink for people like Vasya, the heirs of the apartment)) But seriously, it’s not only the old people who have smells... Young people can have it worse, the young pristine sweat) You need to wash and clean everyone!!!!
Have you tried washing more often?))
We tried it, a month later we stink again...
And my mother says, I live as I want, I wash as I want, I want not. He won’t let me into the room at all; I’ll be forced to wash my face with grief, not to mention anything else. I guess I'm a bad daughter
With my mother, who is 70 years old, I didn’t notice that she stinks of old age! The apartment is perfectly clean and the linen is absolutely clean. The rugs are sent to the car wash for washing. Hey God, they made me laugh, my mother is a city person!
There are such young people, and they smell so bad that old people are far from them
I'm 56?! Am I stinking already? ? Sorry, I don't believe it! Shower twice a day, then creams... gym three times a week, then also shower... And you don’t go to work twice in the same clothes... it’s just not accepted... So the author... you’re a little mistaken.. Old age and the smell is from help, from depression... When there is no strength or desire...
From my own experience of caring for elderly parents, I can tell you what needs to be done to prevent the apartment from smelling. Until the last day, my parents were walking and capable. Mom cooked the food herself, and dad took out the trash. They could wash themselves in the bathroom. Once a week I thoroughly washed the apartment and sanitized the bathroom and bathtub. I changed bed linen and towels every other week. Mom made sure that underwear was changed regularly. I also washed my outerwear often. As a result, all relatives and friends noted that the apartment did not smell of old age at all.
Take care of the elderly more often and everything will be fine. Don't hold your nose...
The smell of old age exists, no matter how you brush it off, and hygiene has nothing to do with it. It just doesn't happen to everyone
The best way to get rid of such a hated smell of old age is to bury its main source and sprinkle it with quicklime. And if the smell persists after this, bury the author of the article nearby. Then it will smell like roses and mimosas.
Cut the lemon onto a plate and that’s it
In my memory there are several young people who you couldn’t be near, it’s unclear why they stank. They were always washed, clean, but they stank. Imagine the smell in the apartment, the old people were resting.
I, too, like Vasya, live with an old woman - nothing listed in the article helps with this suffocating, vomiting smell of just an old body.
We endure it with the whole family, there is nowhere to escape.She washes herself, changes her clothes, and uses all sorts of means - it’s useless.
Bury the source of the smell 3 meters into the ground - and everything will be fine.
All the remedies listed in the article will not help.
Like your grandmother, don’t wash yourself - a compound that causes a specific smell of an old body (we differentiate this smell from the smell of urine in senile incontinence) is beyond the power of ordinary products and soaps. This is a problem for many people.
But the Japanese mentioned above found a remedy for the smell of old age - green tea. Its enzymes are able to bind this complex organic matter and have come up with a line of cosmetics for older people. Google it.
My mother is 89 years old, she is bedridden, of course, I try, but sometimes, in order to quickly get rid of the smell, I wash the floor by adding camphor alcohol to the water, and then I pour water with alcohol into a small container and put it somewhere in a corner...
Add a few crystals of potassium permanganate to a small container of water. Can be placed near the bed or somewhere in the corner
Old people stink a lot. It's not about hygiene, it's about fatigue
What can we say about the old people, the young ones will rise like wings, you can suffocate!
Are there tears in your eyes, do old people smell bad?! Take better care of them!
There are no pills for old age! We will all be like that! And if cruel children refuse to care for their elderly mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers... Who came up with the smell of old people?! And they also tolerated your smell when you were little?! You tolerate it too! Ungrateful!
You're right.
If a person has excessive sweating, then even in his youth he stinks so much that his eyes water. I worked with such a girl, her smell made me sick, and she also couldn’t do anything, although she took a shower and used deodorant.
And I wash and clean well every other day, I take a shower every day, but I still feel the smell, it’s really disgusting, what should I do?
Review your diet first. Buy only neutral detergents, hygienic neutral ones without any fragrances, because they enhance your natural smell. Choose your perfumes especially carefully, otherwise they can give a very creepy effect. For some time I had to sit next to a woman for work, and she constantly smelled of urine; she was still young. And I saw that she was a neat person, but the smell was persistent, and she probably didn’t feel it. Then I carefully asked what perfume she uses, she said that she loves the same one. I read about it and indeed, many people wrote about this effect, and many felt exactly this unpleasant smell. It all depends on our hormones and when applying to your skin, first read well what you can expect from it. Walk around with this smell and ask those around you what they smell. I just had to tell her later that her choice was very unfortunate and it turned out I wasn’t the only one who felt this way. She was shocked that everyone could think about her, so with age, hormones change and odors, mixing with the smell of our skin, can have unpredictable results.
You just need to cleanse your body before you get old. There will be no smell and you will get sick less often. I experienced it myself. Everything is very simple. I can tell you how to do this. +79065851351 Vladimir.
What does it mean to cleanse the body? .
It's like a frying pan or a saucepan, but they also get dirty after every cooking.
And we eat more than once a day and get dirty again, why write nonsense?
We've already had enough of this cleansing of the body, where we tore out this expression
There are people, both young and old, who develop an odor not only from being unkempt or taking substances after consuming or using them for pleasure, but also have obscene thoughts, condemning thoughts of everything and everyone around them. So these thoughts manifest themselves on the material plane in the form of a vile odor, regardless of the cleanliness of our body. However, not everyone can feel and realize this. WE LOVE, FORGIVE, CLEAR our THOUGHTS, and THE WORLD WILL TURN TO US WITH THE SAME PURITY! AS WE THINK, SO WE LIVE!
A guest comes to the owners and says: “Does something stink here?” The hostess replies: “While you were away, nothing stank!”
Little children stink worse than their old parents. But the parents were not indignant, but rejoiced at their child. And now he has grown up and his parents, who smelled his shit, now stink to him. Where is the gratitude for your existence?
Vanya, you talk to grandma, kindly, with love, without reproaches, maybe she herself doesn’t feel the smell, of course young people don’t like it very much, but who other than your loved ones will tell the truth, and look how much advice they gave, otherwise you’ll be silent turn up your nose)) it will be even worse to offend grandma
Youth is given to all, but old age to the chosen ones
LIFE is given to everyone, and old age to the chosen ones
The title of the article causes inter-age discord and insults innocent elderly people. The author would try to give a title like, gay people don’t smell like that)))
LGBTIANS WOULD JUST HIT HIM, but old people can be crap easily and fearlessly.
If such a smell began, it was only because old people were left without help.
LOOK HOW MUCH PENSIONERS CHARGE FOR WHAT SOCIAL WORKERS HELP GET WASHED OUT. And what do “children” in the Russian Federation do with their parents or aged, sick relatives, husbands and wives - don’t you dare talk about it! The police do not initiate cases of inhumane treatment of mothers, fathers, sick wives or husbands. THE POLICE LEAVE, THE TYPE OF PERSON HIMSELF REFUSED, AS I DO NOW AND AMBULANCES, IF YOU EVEN HAD A STROKE.
judges…. In FINLAND, spanking a child will lead to deprivation of parental rights. In the Russian Federation, according to official data, 14,000 women, wives, were killed by their husbands, and how many unfortunate elderly parents were starved and tortured, beaten to death, we cannot even talk about this.
DON'T LIE about the smell of old age. IT IS NOT. there is a smell of arrogance, intolerance and incredible cruelty and inhumanity. JUST WHERE I GREW UP AT THE HANDS OF MY CHILDREN AND RELATIVES, EIGHT DIED FROM utter abandonment!!!! Human. THIS IS JUST WHAT I KNOW FOR EXACTLY. The police came to the two people who were brutally beaten, but the case was not opened. You with such a title are a leader of the government and a person who sows evil.
So I say that a person is a bag of shit, regardless of age.
Only bedridden, ill-groomed, sick old people smell. With ducks, bedsores, diapers.
A person himself, if he maintains hygiene and does not have serious chronic diseases, then he does not smell of anything. Even sweat in the first half hour does not smell.
I work at a college. After a couple in the first or second year, you can hang up an ax, it smells like a dog (we have boys studying here). True, in the third and fourth year everything gets better, it even happens that some leave behind a light trail of perfume. And the first course is where the tough stuff is!
Yes, the world is changing. And it’s not nice when loved ones write nasty things. You need to love and care for a person, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s grandparents, mother or father. If they weren’t there, we wouldn’t be there.
Old people develop odors from the state of their body, and the more health problems they have, the sooner this nasty smell appears. Therefore, no perfume will help here, you just need to maintain your health, but not everyone succeeds.
Why is an unpleasant odor associated with old age? Sometimes you can’t enter a young person’s home without a gas mask. It all depends on the habits and culture of people. Therefore, get rid of older people (you will be like that yourself). Better try to start respecting old age, help your elderly parents and grandparents more often. (By the way, self-respect may also appear)…
I remember that manganese diluted in water was placed in containers near the bodies of the dead. Indeed, the nauseating smell disappeared.
It’s not enough for us to push problems with nationalities within the country, so now they’ve started to quarrel between the elderly and the parents of parents and children
Dear author, buy your granny, give her new clothes and perfume, give her a manicure! She is a woman, and you need to look after a woman! Believe me, your life will get better. Be kinder, don’t wait for a boomerang to fly to you according to the LAW OF LIFE! !!
Fairy tales about all sorts of super odor removal products are inventions of marketers, whose goal is to sell rather expensive household chemicals, which, moreover, are not harmless, and their effectiveness is questionable.
All sorts of fragrances, flavors, air fresheners, etc. They do not destroy unpleasant odors, but only mask them, and in addition, they contain harmful substances, and after a while they will only worsen the situation with odors.
It destroys bacteria, and along with them, unpleasant odors, atomic oxygen, which is released during the decomposition of a number of substances: ozone, potassium permanganate, sodium hypochlorite, etc. Ozone is obtained by irradiating air with ultraviolet radiation, which also produces harmful nitrogen compounds. When decomposed, potassium permanganate forms highly coloring substances.
A weak aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite of high purity for use in medicine is obtained by electrolysis of an aqueous solution of sodium chloride (table salt) using platinum-containing electrodes. This solution, unlike many other products containing sodium hypochlorite, practically does not release chlorine; upon decomposition, it releases atomic oxygen - the rest is a solution of sodium chloride in water. A weak solution of pure sodium hypochlorite (less than 1%) is harmless and is successfully used for disinfection of blood, gastrointestinal tract, and gynecology.
The most accessible is an aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite called “Belizna Economy”, containing up to 15% (after six months of storage at room temperature, the concentration decreases by 2 times) Na-Cl-O, and, unfortunately, also containing other chlorine-containing compounds, do not play a role in disinfection, but give off the smell of chlorine. This product is used to bleach and disinfect linen (unpleasant odors disappear completely), colored fabrics become discolored. Before use, dilute fresh bleach 50 times, six months ago - 25 times. Also used for washing floors and other surfaces to destroy bacteria and, along with them, unpleasant odors.“Belizna” is very effective for combating mold: if you spray undiluted product (using a spray bottle, being careful) on places where there is mold, then after 5 - 10 minutes the mold will be easily washed off with water, and where there are tiles (kitchen, toilet, bathroom) you don’t have to rinse it off, and the mold will disappear forever!
Stop typing crap about older people! I am a pensioner - my apartment smells of flowers and my cologne - and not old age! Sometimes I drink beer - I drink beer! I change my linen - not like the English kettles once every three months - but once a week - From the Army! My skin does not peel off - and I wash myself daily in the summer + in the sea, and in the winter 2 times a week and not in the shower, but in the bath! I vacuum every week and wet clean every week!
And I don't see any problems in this! And it will be like this until my death - in 10 years - or even earlier!
I don't plan to live until I'm 90 - I'm not that rich or poor!
I work in a student dormitory. All they have to do is turn the tap. No, they stink. From the girls, at a distance, with unwashed hair and, from the guys, with their feet, through krasovki. Only one of the guys takes a shower every day. The rest, as in the Middle Ages, “go wild.” I'm 63 and I definitely don't stink.
You can set fire to bay leaves, it also removes odors well.
All lies
My grandma died at 78, I still remember her smell
baby shampoo
There are also those who at 20 stink so much that you can stand or fall!
A basic skill to take care of yourself, no matter how old you are
And I will be 67 years old on the 24th. ))) And I work in an office and don’t stink because... Every day I take a shower in the morning and in the evening! And the house doesn’t stink - everything is clean and good - my daughter helps with the cleaning!
Old age is not a joy, but now a lot of young people stink both of their bodies and their breath of rot because they are in poor health and they don’t know about it. These include bad teeth and stomach and liver and hormones are not normal, go urgently to a therapist and endocrinologist
Now even young people stink of sweat and breath, go to the doctors because you are sick, it’s your teeth and stomach and hormones
My aunt (my father’s sister) went crazy at 83. She had arthritis, high blood pressure, and had a knee implant. She had a 3-room apartment, there was no smell of old age at all. She changed her bed sheets consistently 3 times a month. I opened the windows in the morning and evening for 30 minutes in the winter, in the summer the window in the bedroom was constantly ventilated, I showered every day, used different body creams, I cleaned the apartment twice a month, when I wasn’t in good health, I paid my neighbor to do the laundry and clean. .
So to each his own.
I don’t know what old age smells like - my mother is 78 years old, there are no smells. But I know how young women stink. At work, the boss - you can’t tell, but I want to put on a gas mask)))
The author forgot to mention mushrooms. It is unlikely that anyone will be protected from them until old age. Treatment for them is long and expensive. Gram tubes cost hundreds of rubles, but you need a fair amount of them. And a dermatologist is not available everywhere these days. Well, be kind, you will get a smell.
The main thing is hygiene and sanitation. About the air - potassium permanganate is considered a precursor in Russia, not in pharmacies, in chemicals only for organizations. Chlorine-containing products require ventilation when used - the smell of chlorine appears when the maximum permissible concentration for chlorine is 10 times exceeded. Quartzization and ozonation remain as a dry residue. It is better to take an automatic periodic action household ionizer.
I'll laugh at all of you together, we'll all stink when we're old
It never happened in my life when I was a child that we discussed such topics. Now the kids in kindergarten are already talking about it. I’m generally silent about schools? Where is the world going?
old people smell like death.