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 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...
When you share a bathroom with a partner, it’s inevitable that you’re going to end up sharing more than just toothpaste. Our bodies are constantly crawling with bacteria—some good, some bad—and the bathroom, a room dedicated as it is to both dampness and nudity, is the perfect...
When I was just a young boy, I slammed my thumb in a car door. That fingernail proceeded to fall off about a week later, revealing a brain-like section of skin that both intrigued my boyish self and absolutely terrified every normal adult who had the misfortune...
According to recent surveys by our Aaerican counteraprts, body grooming is on the rise—and with it, logically, we are seeing more and more nicks and cuts to our most tender areas. These injuries are unsightly—and painful—so we asked primary care physician Dr. Marc Leavey how to treat the all...
Your skin is like the night sky. I am not on drugs, honest. Please just hear me out. Your skin is like the night sky—peppered with various otherworldly spots that confuse and bewilder the majority of us and usually remain unexplored and unnamed for the whole of...
Poop fact: The average person poops about once a day, but the “normal” range spans from three times a day to once every three days. Hypothetically speaking, that means you could create nine poops in the time another person makes just one (mind blown). But how come?...
As anyone who’s ever experienced a post-bender hangover knows, booze does some gnarly stuff to your body: It breaks your heart, erases your memory, scrambles your brain, fills your stomach, and arguably worst of all, impairs your penis (like, come on, was that really necessary?) Amidst all...
Let’s get one thing straight: Once a tattoo has fully settled into the skin, it’s exactly the same as non-tattooed skin, meaning shaving is A-okay. That said, shaving tattooed skin during the healing process can damage the tattoo, so you need to be careful. “You run the...
Getting old sucks: As well as becoming enraptured by naff daytime telly, you also begin to lose the hair on your head and sprout it from your ears and nostrils instead. But what is it about a bit of extra mileage that makes this happen? The answer lies...
