We mostly all agree that hot tubs, massages and the like feel good, but ask anyone why and you’ll get a shrug (which is fair! That person was trying to relax, after all). Understanding what these self-care activities are doing to your body — and more importantly,...
I have tattoos scrawled across my entire body, stretching from my fingers to my toes. My hair is long enough to touch my shoulders, where it commonly shrouds my pierced ears, except for on the days when I decide to wear it up in a bun. I...
A shaving rash — or razor burn, if you will — can be an obnoxious side effect of shaving if you don’t take steps to avoid it. However, even the best of us can succumb to these angry red bumps once in a while. If you have...
Shaving is an art that requires patience to achieve its maximum effects. However, sometimes you’re running late for work, or need a quick shave before heading out to a date, or are just sick of chopping off your facial hair every day and want to make it...
Mistook your monthly magazine for a pack of One Wipe Charlies and flushed it down the toilet? No worries, here’s the online version! In this edition: An Extreme Pogo Stick Jumper on Keeping a Spring in Your Step How Appreciating Others Can Help You Appreciate Yourself Why...
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We’ve all experienced the agony of holding in a ripe poop. Maybe you’re on a date and you’re afraid of the monster broiling within; maybe you’re driving in the middle of the desert and even if you wanted to stop and poop, the only napkins you have...
If there’s one really annoying thing about shaving, it’s the unfortunate tendency to wind up with irritating little red bumps on the parts of your face where the prospect of irritating red bumps is most likely to maximize that annoyance. The neck, the crease around your chin,...
After a hard, stressful day, having a long soak in a bathtub can be incredibly relaxing. Unless you do it wrong. There aren’t a lot of ways to mess up a bath, but if you make the mistake of staying too long in a bath that’s too...
It’s tempting to zip through a shave without repeatedly rinsing the razor, especially when you woke up five minutes before your Zoom meeting in the morning. But you’re not doing your face any favors by doing so. According to Tyree Hicks, a man who’s shaved his head...
So you’ve spent all winter growing a big, lumberjack-worthy beard. But is this going to be your permanent style, or is it just seasonal? If the latter, then the time to shave it off might be coming up. The first day of spring is March 20, and...
When rashes, blisters and sores force us to consider the kinds of microscopic critters hitching a ride on our bodies (and frequently giving us some sort of skin infection), we likely think about bacteria, or in the nastiest cases, some type of virus. And no wonder: Infections...
