Why do my hands smell like raw garlic days after I finished cooking it?
1. Introduction Hands smell like raw garlic for days after cooking because sulfur-containing compounds, specifically allicin and its breakdown products, penetrate the lipid bilayer of the skin and bind stubbornly to the keratin proteins in the epidermis. Standard soaps cannot dissolve these hydrophobic sulfur bonds, meaning the pungent odor slowly releases over time as the … Read more