Polyester clothes stink after exercise; cotton, not so much

Wednesday, September 3, 2014 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

Polyester clothes smell worse than cotton, following intensive exercise by their wearers, because bacteria that cause odor grow better on polyester, according to research published ahead of print in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

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