You can't smell your bad breath! Despite the fact that in the event you cup your mouth and nose, breath out as usual and then have a sniff soon after you breath out, you will only smell your hand, not your breath.
This is because, the truth is your bad breath contains various combinations of nasty stuff that will make you feel insulted when dealing with people. Problems often develop slowly and gradually that you will become immune to the smell of your own body. You will not even notice your bad breath because your body becomes so acclimatized to the specific concentration of nasty stuff in your bad breath.
However, it is not true for other people! They would able to see it. Although they will have their own bad breath, their bodies are used to the smell of their own odor thus their brain concludes that the bad smell is coming from you! Generally, people only notice that they're having bad breath problem from the individual reaction around them. Does it true? If you find people who suddenly walked away when you come nearer to them, it is pretty good indication that something went wrong. It is very hard to face someone and rather embarrassing to learn this way. Therefore, if you think you have bad breath, but don't dare to ask people if you have this disgusting problem, you may now think about some bad breath simple test you can do today.
Follow these simple steps to test bad breath:
Quick Hand Test
Probably easy and simple, and the best-known way is simply lick the back of your hand and keep it dry for five or ten seconds. The next step is to sniff it. This works because you've transferred some of the 'stuff' that produces your breath smell onto your hand, while removing your actual breath (that you merely cannot smell) from the equation.The Gauze Test
You could wipe your tongue with a large piece of gauze or cotton wool, and allow it to dry in the same way above. This works for the identical reason (as licking your hand) but includes additional benefits of potentially seeing a yellowish stain on it. In the event that you found the presence of yellowish stain, it's a very good indicator of a bad breath problem.The Spoon Test
Take a spoon from your kitchen (you might think twice if you wish to re-use it later), turn it upside down and slowly scrape it on the surface of your tongue. Same as our test before, let it dry and smell it. This also works for the same reason as above.The Floss Test
You can also have a small amount of dental floss (or dental tape) and run it between some of your back teeth. Allow it dry too, and smell it. Despite the fact that, in practically all cases, the (bad breath) problem does not actually produced from your teeth, there is still enough 'stuff' that produces the bad smell between them to show a fairly good indication of bad breath problem. This approach will also give you some idea of what level of your bad breath smells like to other people.The Mirror Test
Look in the mirror, and stick your tongue out as far as you can. Does your tongue have a white coating onto it? The intensity of the coating can provide a reasonably good idea of the intensity of your bad breath. Also, most of the time, the farther back (towards your throat) that white coating extends, the worse the problem.
