Your hands stay stinky even when they’re clean. Such as a fish smell lingers on the skin hours after fishing and labourously washing hands. Why is that?
In: Chemistry
Even though germs are very small they usually have complex structures which can get damaged by soap and disinfectants this killing them most smell come from much tinier lipid particles. For example one component of the smell of feces is skatole a tiny organic compound. This can be harder to wash off.
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