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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve noticed this in recent years with my mother, 72. It lingers in my house once she leaves, and like someone else said, it permeates food and packaging; I can taste it in cookies she brings over, and it sticks to the packaging of things she brings over for my kids. I can smell it in her house but she does her best to mask it with even more offensive room sprays. I know for a fact she doesn’t shower as often as she should, and doesn’t wash her hair enough. She has told me she only showers in the morning (I wonder if showering before bed would help) and only washes her hair a couple times a week. I don’t smell it on my dad. 
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I don't think it's personal hygiene, rather it's the laundry wisdom that's popular these days. Tiny amounts of detergent, detergents chosen based on absence of plastic packaging rather than effectiveness, cold washes. A lot of washing machines, even if you choose a hot wash, it'll actually be more like what used to be a warm wash 20 years ago. Never mind a cold wash, which isn't going to remove body oils from clothing and bed linens. Even if you're happy with the results from tiny amounts of possibly ineffective detergents in cold water for most of your wash, you have to step it up for loads containing body oil.[/quote]

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