Connie Yang of PFRANKMD by Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank tells Yahoo Life. “Apocrine glands are located in hair-bearing areas like the underarms, groin and scalp and secrete a thicker sweat,” she says.

Apocrine glands are in specific areas of the body, such as the breasts, face, scalp, perineum, and the underarms. They produce sweat that comes through hair follicles rather than through the skin ...

These hormones act directly on apocrine glands in hair follicles and eccrine glands in skin pores without hair follicles. Genetics is thought to play a central role in primary hyperhidrosis as up ...