Glands remove water from our blood and secrete it through pores onto the surface of the skin. We have between 2-5 million "eccrine sweat glands" all over the body.

Sweat pores bring sweat from a sweat gland to the skin's surface. Some of these bacteria enjoy eating the molecules in our sweat. Then they spit out new molecular compounds, ...

It's the middle of summer, during a meeting: beads of sweat form on your forehead, your underarms become a source of ...

Sweat is made up of a few things, namely urea (a by-product of the kidneys), fatty acids, salt, and a lot of it being water. Sweat glands are tubular structures beneath the skin that are bunched up at ...

They produce sweat that comes through hair follicles rather than through the skin’s pores. Sweat from apocrine glands can have an odor. It contains lipids, sugars, and ammonia.

“In hot weather we see increased sweat mixing with oil glands and blocking pores,” says Dr. Danilo Del Campo, a Chicago-based dermatologist working at the Chicago Skin Clinic.

These topical treatments are typically made of aluminum compounds that “plug the pores of the sweat glands and prevent sweat from coming out,” said Dr. Lyall Gorenstein, a thoracic surgeon and ...

“In hot weather we see increased sweat mixing with oil glands and blocking pores,” says Dr. Danilo Del Campo, a Chicago-based dermatologist working at the Chicago Skin Clinic.