We get asked a lot of shaving questions here at Dollar Shave Club (who’d have thought?), from how to shave with the grain to the tricky business of edging under the nose. Because it’s important, here’s how to shave with the grain: Pull the razor in the...
You might flush toilets with your feet and go loco on sanitiser after a lengthy journey on public transport, but did you know there’s a veritable petri dish of malevolent bacteria swimming in your very own pockets? Case in point: In a karmically appropriate cautionary tale, in 2012,...
Everyone has a different approach to oral care: Some brush before flossing, some floss before brushing. Some wild folk even gargle mouthwash before anything else. But what order is the correct order? We wanted to hear it from the horse’s mouth, and in this case, that horse...
Welcome to DSC Original Content’s weekly podcast, where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in mere minutes. In this edition, learn what motivates different kinds of jerks to be the biggest jerky jerks they can be; find out why being a jerk can sometimes be...
Step #1: Know How Washing (and Drying) Affects Your Clothes While washing and drying your clothes keeps them looking and smelling fresh, it also slowly pulls apart the material. “Every time you put clothes through the laundry, the system imparts microscopic damage to the fabric,” LA-based stylist...
Whenever I catch a whiff of chlorine, I’m reminded of the frigid early mornings and tiring late nights that I spent playing water polo as a teenager. The chlorine-induced memories are so strong, in fact, that I can even feel the cold water splashing against my skin....
First of all, if you’ve run out of shave lather or shave butter, shame on you! It has literally never been easier to keep stocked with shaving supplies. But let’s assume the worst has happened: You have a week’s worth of stubble, a job interview in two...
First off, congratulations: The fact that you have a date planned means you must be doing something right. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, though — if you want to be your best possible (hopefully naked later on) self, you need to make sure that whatever your...
There are still some naysayers when it comes to chest hair grooming: There are those that say chest hair is making a comeback and those who would argue that a good chest rug is healthy—that we evolved with chest hair because it was our first line of defence...
It’s easy to convince yourself that all the soap and shampoo cascading down your legs is enough to clean your feet when you’re rushing blearily through your morning shower. But is that really true? Chemist and product wiz, Fadi Mourad, took us through the science of how...
Welcome to Dollar Shave Club UK’s weekly webcast, where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in mere minutes. In this edition, learn what causes the nightly visit from the boner fairy; find out why it’s actually good for your bed sheets that it happens; and...
After years of showering on a daily basis, you’d think stepping out completely clean is a given. Some body parts, however, are easy to miss and remain unwashed for weeks at a time. Below is a list of every hard-to-reach body part, how to clean it, and what nasty...
