NATURE STUDY REVEALS
Women with BMI Over 30 Produce 3x More Body Odor Compounds

Plus Size > I Sweat So Much In My Folds

"I Sweat Sooo Much In My Folds That I Was Stuffing Paper Towels Under My Boobs Every Morning."

Then a Nurse Told Me the Smell Wasn't Coming From My Skin.

By Megan Torres | 13 April, 2026

3,214 Ratings

Reviewed by Dr. Sarah Kim, Board-Certified Dermatologist | 6 min read

Summary: If you're plus-size and your folds are always wet, always funky, and no product you put ON your skin fixes the smell for more than an hour. This explains the biology nobody ever told you about. And the  inside-out routine that's helping thousands of women like us actually feel fresh  where perfume never reaches.

I sweat sooo much.

Like not "oh it's hot outside" sweat. I mean it's just always WET. Under my boobs. In my belly fold. Between my thighs. Down there. Every single day. Cool office? Still sweating. Sitting on the couch.

watching Netflix? Still sweating. 
A slow grocery run in the morning?

Girl. Still sweating.

And honestly? I've made peace with the sweat part. It is what it is.

My body runs hot. My folds trap heat. I can't air-condition my

underboob. I get it.

But the SMELL.

The smell is what drives me nuts.

I don't mind being sweaty as long as I'm not smelly. That's the line. And my body crosses it every single day by like 2pm. No

matter what I do.

I've tried powder. I use cotton panties. I put deodorant in my folds, under the arms AND between the belly and the thighs. I've tried Lume. I keep baby wipes in my bag like my life depends on it (it kinda does). I wear biker shorts under dresses because my thighs will literally be RAW and on fire by noon without them.

And by mid-afternoon I'm in a bathroom stall patting everything dry, doing a sniff check, and feeling dirty and smelly all over again.

It's driving me nuts.

I felt like I was the only one doing all of this. Managing my body like a second job nobody hired me for.

Then I found out what was actually causing the smell and why every single product I was putting ON my skin could only fix half of it.

It's driving me nuts.

If you're reading this, I bet you know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.

Your underboob is damp before you even leave the house even on cool days. When you wore a bigger cup you had boob sweat nonstop. It's like your boobs can't breathe.

Your belly fold has its own smell by afternoon and you've powdered the hell out of it that morning. Sometimes you tuck a cotton bandana between your belly and your underwear as a layer. Sometimes it's literally paper towels.

You just cannot stay dry down there. It's just never dry. You're always afraid of a yeast infection on top of everything else.

Your thighs? You've always struggled with chub rub. You can't even wear shorts in the summer without something between them.

And the searing pain in the shower after a long day? Don't even get me started.

You've tried all types of deodorant from natural to clinical  strength to Lume to whatever someone swore by on Reddit. You use Secret Clinical under the arms and body deodorant in the folds. And they ALL fade in a fold within 90 minutes.

Going shopping? Feeling gross? Wipe with baby wipes in the bathroom then pat dry with the towel. Not perfect but it helps. For about 20 minutes.

You can't even exercise because you know you'll hurt for days after. You had to stop working out because the chafing got so bad.

You time your showers around dates and intimacy. Every time. "If you're concerned about smelling bad, shower right before you have sex." You've read that advice a hundred times. You live by it. Because what else can you do?

If more than three of those are your life keep reading. Because what I found out explains why all of that effort only gets you halfway there.

Okay here's the thing nobody tells you.

All those products you're using? The Lume, the Gold Bond, the Secret Clinical, the wipes? They're doing their job. They're handling the bacteria and the moisture on the surface. And that part works.

But there's a second source of smell that doesn't start on your skin at all. It starts inside your body.

Lemme explain it super simply.

When you eat normal food protein, eggs, meat, fish, certain bacteria in your gut break it down and make a compound called TMA. Trimethylamine. Sounds fancy but all you need to know is: it smells BAD.

Normally your liver catches it and neutralizes it before it goes anywhere. No big deal.

But here's the thing when your gut bacteria are out of whack (which studies show happens way more in women carrying extra weight) your liver can't keep up. The TMA slips through.

It goes into your bloodstream.

And once it's in your blood, your body does what bodies do. It pushes it out. Through your sweat. Through your breath. And through the skin lining your folds and your intimate areas.

So you shower at 6pm. You feel completely clean. Fresh.

By 8pm? Your body has already sweated a fresh batch of TMA right back into your underboob, your belly fold, your thigh crease. All the places where skin presses against skin and nothing can evaporate.

That's why the smell comes back. It's not because you didn't scrub hard enough. It's because your body is producing it from the inside and pushing it out through your skin continuously.

Your deodorant handles the bacteria on the surface. It does that well. But it was never built to stop what's being secreted from the inside.

You're cleaning the tap.

But the pipe is still running.

And that's only part of it. There's something else happening that

makes all of this even more unfair.

You know that thing where your partner's natural smell not their cologne, not their soap, their ACTUAL body scent just does something to you? Where burying your face in their neck feels like a drug? Where their worn t-shirt smells like comfort and safety?

That's not in your head. That's biology. It's called olfactory communication. basically how humans unconsciously respond to each other's natural body scent. Some people call it pheromones. Science is still figuring out the exact word. But the experience? Every woman knows it.

Partners are incredibly sensitive to each other's natural smell. It literally plays a role in attraction, bonding, and sexual chemistry. There's research showing that body odour affects how attracted people are to each other. it's not about your sports car or your romance skills. It's chemical.

Special Offer

And here's what kills me:

Your body is SUPPOSED to produce scent signals that draw people closer. That's how it works. The natural smell from your sweat, your skin, your intimate areas. it's supposed to be part of what makes you... you. The version people want to be near.

But when your gut is dumping excess TMA into your bloodstream and your microbiome is out of balance? Those natural scent signals get buried. Overwhelmed. Instead of the subtle, clean, attractive baseline your body was designed to produce — you get the funk. The smell that makes you time your showers around hugs.

Your natural attractiveness signal is being hijacked by internal chemistry that's running too hot.

No perfume fixes that. No deodorant reaches it. Because it's not ON you. It's coming FROM you.

And on top of all of this. There's a loop. A cruel, biological loop that makes the whole thing worse.

You know that panic before someone gets close? Before a date. Before intimacy. Before a long hug.

That panic triggers stress sweat. And stress sweat is chemically DIFFERENT from regular sweat. Richer. Fattier. More protein. Exactly what odor bacteria eat the fastest.

So: you worry about how you smell → your body produces richer stuff → bacteria go to town → stronger smell → your worry was right.

The fear of smelling bad literally makes you smell more.

And "just relax" doesn't break a biological chain reaction. Trust me. I told myself that for years. It doesn't work.

The only way to break it is to actually reduce the odor chemistry that gives the loop its fuel. When there's less to be anxious about? The anxiety loses its ammunition. And the loop starts running in reverse.

That's when I started looking for something that could actually do that. Not another thing to put ON my body. Something that could change what my body was producing FROM the inside.

I'm not gonna sit here and tell you all those products suck. They

don't. I used most of them for years.

I used Secret Clinical under my arms and body deodorant in myfolds. That combo kept me functional. But "functional" and "not worried about smelling" are two very different things.

I owned more Gold Bond than the CVS down the street from me. It kept things dry for maybe 45 minutes in a fold. Then it mixed with sweat and turned into a clumpy paste that actually made the rubbing WORSE. By afternoon I was worse off than when I started.

I usually used Lume. Then I wanted to see if there were cheaper alternatives. Then I'd go back to Lume. Then I'd try the next thing someone on Reddit swore by. Rinse and repeat. Every month. For years.

I put a cotton bandana on as a layer between me and my underwear. I kept extras in my bag and changed them out during the day. I just wore biker shorts under dresses because that's the only thing that ever worked for the thigh situation.

I've tried all types of deodorant from natural to clinical to prescription strength. I've tried powder, I use cotton panties... but I still felt dirty and smelly. It was driving me nuts.

$70+ a month. Every month. Just to get through a regular day without wanting to disappear.

that proves why they can't work!

And all of it helped. Genuinely. But none of it could touch the smell that was being produced inside my body. Because none of it was ever built to.

I didn't need a better version of what I was already doing. I needed the piece I didn't know was missing.

It was like 11pm on a Tuesday. I was in a plus-size health group on Facebook you know the ones where women actually tell the truth about their bodies instead of performing body positivity?

Someone posted about how some of the smell in our folds isn't even being produced on the skin. That the gut is making odor compounds that travel through the blood and come out through sweat and intimate tissue. And that there's actually a way to intercept that compound before it enters the bloodstream.

I almost kept scrolling. Another product. Another "this changed my life." I've seen it. I've bought it. I've thrown it in the trash a month later.

But then I saw this comment from a woman. plus-size, around my

age. She wrote:

"I still sweat. I'm still fat. My folds still exist. But the SMELL is different. Like... my sweat is just sweat now. Not that funk. It's been 6 weeks. My husband noticed before I did."

That didn't sound like a paid testimonial. That sounded like me if I'd finally found something that worked.

The product was called Crave Candy. The idea is that your body's natural scent. the baseline that's supposed to make you smell like YOU, the clean, subtle, attractive version — gets overwhelmed when your internal chemistry is dumping excess TMA and your microbiome is off.

It works on two things:

1️⃣: Stops the smell at the source. Sodium copper chlorophyllin, the same compound used for internal odor support since 1951, binds to TMA in your gut before it can enter your bloodstream. Organic parsley adds another layer of natural chlorophyll for deodorizing support. What gets bound gets eliminated as waste. What doesn't enter your blood doesn't get sweated out through your folds.

2️⃣: Soothes the gut producing it. Slippery elm bark the highest-dose ingredient in the formula — coats and supports your gut lining, so your microbiome can rebalance and stop overproducing TMA in the first place. Peppermint adds gentle digestive support. Less of the problem gets made. The internal environment shifts.

3️⃣: Calms the chemistry running the loop. Remember that stress sweat thing? where the fear of smelling literally makes you smell more? That's hormonal. Maca root, fenugreek, and red clover support hormonal balance, the foundation of your natural body chemistry. Calmer hormones = leaner sweat = bacteria have less to feed on. The loop loses its fuel. And your body starts producing the clean, subtle scent baseline it was designed for.

Plus a quiet supporting cast - L-arginine, beetroot, and vitamin E. that helps strengthen your skin barrier from the inside. The same skin barrier that takes daily damage from friction and trapped moisture.

Eleven ingredients. One pouch. Two heart-shaped gummies a day. That's it.

The whole idea is: stop overwhelming your natural scent with internal chemistry that's running too hot. Let your body smell like YOU again — not like your gut's waste products.

"I've been treating body odor cases for 12 years. The women who switch to inside-out approaches see results in 2-4 weeks that I never saw with topical treatments alone. The gut-skin connection is real." 

Dr. Sarah Kim, Board-Certified Dermatologist

I ordered it. $24.99 for the first month   they had 50% off. Figured I'd spent more than that on Gold Bond in the last six weeks alone. Plus there was a 60-day money-back guarantee so if it was bullsh*t I'd just get my money back.

CHECK AVAILABILITY

I'm going to tell you exactly what happened because I hate when brands oversell.

Week 1: Nothing. Like literally nothing. I almost stopped taking them. Thought it was just another thing I wasted money on.

Week 2: Maybe? My belly fold at end of day smelled a little less intense. But I honestly wasn't sure if I was making it up because I wanted it to work.

🌟Week 3: Okay this is when I knew. I was at work and I realized I hadn't done my bathroom check since lunch. It was 4pm. Normally I've been in there twice by then. I went in and did a check and my fold area smelled like... skin. Just skin. Not nothing. Not roses. Just regular, neutral skin.

I stood in that bathroom stall and my eyes got wet. Because that has not happened to me on a regular workday in YEARS.

Week 5: This is the moment. I was on the couch with my boyfriend. He pulled me in close. And I didn't flinch. I didn't run the checklist. I didn't calculate when I'd last showered. I was just... there. With him. Present. Not half monitoring my body for the first time in I don't even know how long.

He said something a few days later. "You seem different lately. More relaxed." He doesn't know about what changed. He doesn't know about any of this. He just noticed I stopped pulling away. run the checklist. I didn't calculate when I'd last showered. I was just... there. With him. Present. Not half monitoring my body for the first time in I don't even know how long.

Month 3 (Now): I still sweat. I'm still plus-size. My folds are still there. I still use deodorant  it works and I like it.

But the thing that drove me crazy the funk, the smell that built up no matter what I put on that's genuinely less. The sweat smells more like just... sweat now. Neutral. Not that other thing.

I still carry wipes sometimes. But it's habit now, not survival.

And the shower-before-intimacy thing? Haven't done it in six weeks. That. That right there is everything.

Questions You're Probably Thinking

Is this real or a gimmick?

I asked the same thing. The main ingredient chlorophyllin has been used for internal odor support since 1951. That's 70+ years of real use. This isn't new science. It's just never been made for women like us before.

How long?

2–4 weeks for most. It's not instant. It's a chemistry shift. But the women who stick with it for 3 weeks all say the same thing: "I just noticed I wasn't thinking about it as much."

Is it safe? Will it upset my system?

No stimulants. No synthetic hormones. No skin reactions because you're not putting it on skin. Every ingredient has 20+ years of safe use in supplements.

What if it doesn't work?

60-day money-back guarantee. Try it for two months. If the smell doesn't change, you get every penny back. I've been burned enough to know that matters.

Tasha R., Houston

"I used to change my underwear at lunch because of the belly fold smell. I've been on this for 2 months and I haven't had to once. I still sweat but it's just SWEAT now. Not that funk that made me wanna die in the bathroom at work lol"

Verified Purchase

Keisha M., Atlanta

"My underboob has been my nemesis since I was 19. I'm 37. I've tried everything. Gold Bond turns to paste. Lume fades in an hour in a fold. This is the first time my underboob area has smelled like nothing. Like NOTHING. I forgot what nothing smelled like. I'm literally crying writing this review."

Verified Purchase

Danielle W., Phoenix

"Okay so I was NOT gonna buy this. It sounded like every other thing I've wasted money on. But the guarantee made me think whatever. By week 4 my husband goes 'you smell really good' and I wasn't wearing perfume. HE WAS SMELLING ME. My actual scent. Not the funk. Not the deodorant. ME. That broke me in the best way."

Verified Purchase

*P.S. — You know that feeling where someone pulls you close and

instead of melting into it, half your brain immediately starts

running a body check?

You know that feeling where someone pulls you close and instead of melting into it, half your brain immediately starts running a body check?

You're not gross. You're not high-maintenance. Your body is making

something from the inside that nobody ever explained to you and you've been fighting it from the outside because outside is all anyone ever gave you.

The Cost of Managing vs Actually Fixing

Now there's an inside piece. And it costs less than your current Gold Bond + Lume + wipes + powder rotation.

The QUIET-FRESH™ Promise:

Try it for 60 days. If your folds don't smell different if you don't catch yourself thinking about it less and I'll give you every penny back.

No questions. No judgment. Just email support@cravecandy.com with your order number. Because if it doesn't give you your evenings back, we don't want your money.

But if it works the way it worked for me?

Someone's gonna pull you close. And for the first time in a long time, you're not gonna flinch. You're just gonna be there. Present. Smelling like you.

And that? That's worth everything.

👉 Ready to feel seen again? Start your inside-out spark below.

CHECK AVAILABILITY

Crave Candy's State-Of-The-Art Facility

GMP Ceritified

Lab Tested

Why Crave Candy CRUSH

'Feminine Balance' Gummies

Due to high demand and small-batch runs, Or stock is at high risk of selling out ⚠️

RESERVE MY POUCH

*These statements have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Testimonials found at heycravecandy.com are unverified results, and may not reflect the typical purchaser's experience, may not apply to the average person and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results.

Information on the Crave Candy site is provided for informational purposes only. It is not meant to substitute for medical advice from your physician or other medical professional. You should not use the information contained herein for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing any medication. Carefully read all product documentation. If you have or suspect that you have a medical problem, promptly contact your regular health care provider.

The Curvature Magazine. All Rights Reserved.

SWEATY SUMMER SPECIAL

TRY RISK-FREE

REDEEM