Poor Personal Hygiene
Dead skin cells and sweat in natural crevices and creases, such as the armpit and neck, provide a suitable home for bacteria. Therefore, poor personal hygiene would create a hospitable environment for boils to form on the body. Poor personal hygiene involves not showering regularly, wearing dirty clothes and/or underwear and not properly grooming pubic hairs. Therefore, to prevent bacteria, it is important to shower regularly and after excessive sweating. Use of antiseptic soaps and shampoos. Also, frequent laundering of all towels and beddings is very important.
Previously Having Contact with Someone with Boils
According to the Mayo Clinic, [5], a person is more likely to develop boils if there has been contact with someone who already has boils. A person is also prone to boils if they already have other skin conditions such as hidradenitis suppurativa, a chronic skin condition. According to the Cleveland clinic [6], this condition can make bumps develop on a person, which would eventually become boils, around the sweat glands and hair follicles, which have gotten clogged due to an abnormal overgrowth of cells.