ORIGINAL: archer58
Let's say you are going to your treestand in late October. You have dressed in Scent-Lok outer garments(hypothetically) and have your Under Aurmor and possibly a mid layer on under it all. You work up a little sweat.
Your body gives off body odor AND your sweat glands give off some of the oils and protiens you spoke of in your list.
Scent-Lok is adborbing your odor. At the same time SOME(not all) of the oils and protiens are clinging to your undergarments , not all reaching the layer of Scent-Lok. The ones that do, get trapped in the surface area of the carbon. The SL is Adsorbing ONLY your odor.
Scent-Lok is designed , as we all know to adsorb odorVAPOR primarily.
So the effectiveness of your suit is now deminished by some percent , we cannot determine because the surface area is filling.
Remembering the infinately large surface area we have to work with and the deminished amount of oils and protiens getting to the SL fabric. Let's go out on a limb and say the oils have used a percentage of the surface area that I'll LET YOU GIVE A NUMBER TO.
First of all I would not be wearing Under Armour but that is a whole other thread. Seriously though your story above has about a 1,000 different variables in it that would be useless to speculate about.......if you are gonna do that you may as well bring in the carbon content of the suit, the air flow in, through, and around the garment and any and all environmental variables including humidity, rain, or air quality. Just too vague to expect good info to come from.
So after 40 hours of use you toss it in the dryer and eliminate most of the odor molecules. After a few weeks of the same scenario occuring you do as the Manufacturer recommends and toss it in the washer...to wash out the oils and residues and strat over with an almost pristine suit.(We know that these compoent's can be removed by washing just as any other camo fabric.)Scent-Lok recommends more frequent washings if you are hunting in warmer climates and also recommends washing the Headcover more frequently because you are breathing constantly into it and it's carbon gets full quicker.
The washings are what "they" claim is a major factor in reducing the lifespan of the suit........and you aren't gonna "wash" those substances out of carbon no matter what anyone tells you.
There is no denying that the oils , protiens and other components of sweat get to the carbon. They can be washed out.
I'm afraid you misunderstand carbon adsorption.........it doesn't get "dirty" and then "clean" by washing. It's contents are bonded to the molecule and are not "washed" out.
And I ask you , because I don't know , do all these compounds have an odor associated w/ them?
Yes. The study I referenced was on human odor.........not sweat.