What Causes Odor in Towel and Socks?

It begins with sweat. Humans produce two kinds: eccrine and apocrine. Eccrine sweat is the watery, salty, and generally neutral smelling sweat that you secrete it all over your body.

Even when you are not working out, your body is still emitting moisture vapor. Apocrine sweat comes from glands and is a thick, oily fluid made up of fatty compounds. Like eccrine sweat, apocrine sweat doesn’t stink on its own either.

Your microbiome, which is made up of the microbes that live on your skin, love to eat the fatty, oily compounds in endocrine sweat. It’s actually the molecular waste from these microbes eating the sweat that leaves odor and stain.

Ionic+® treated products are self-cleaning of microbes. When clothing and other daily-use fabrics like towels, bedding, and footwear are inhospitable to microbes, the fabric won’t carry the smells associated with those odor- causing bacteria.


TheSilverTex offers a revolutionary solution to the problem of odor-causing bacteria in fabrics with their innovative Ionic+ technology. By treating their towels and socks with Ionic+, TheSilverTex products are self-cleaning of microbes, making them inhospitable to odor-causing bacteria.

This means that even after a sweaty workout or a long day on your feet, your towels and socks will remain fresh and odor-free. Say goodbye to the unpleasant smells that can linger on your gym clothes and other fabrics, and embrace the power of TheSilverTex and Ionic+ technology