There’s a good reason why you should wash your hands after urination. And no, it doesn’t matter if you have the cleanest, straightest, most precise pee aim known to man. “The rationale is that when toileting, it’s possible to have faecal material and faecal bacteria get onto...
We asked Hollywood manicurist Kelly Bannon, who’s cut more than 250,000 nails, how to clip yours with the same precision as Edward Scissorhands.
Men don’t get towels. We just don’t. Guys generally have one towel, or at most two. There’s the bath towel, i.e., the one we use to dry off after the shower and mop our hair, arms, legs, butts, balls, faces and every other square inch of our bodies with...
While it’s always nice to squeeze a half-bottle of shower gel into your hand and work up a lather that would make an Ibiza foam party jealous, the truth is, most of us are using way too much of it. According to Dollar Shave Club’s resident product...
They’re the man hub Your testicles are essentially the control centre for how your reproductive system grows, hurriedly crafting androgens that determine all the major blokey things, like when your voice breaks and your beard sprouts. They run the bloke factory The most important form of androgen...
If we’re being completely honest, it’s not exactly uncommon for a man who’s been soaking in a warm tub for a while to end up playing with, well, something more than his rubber ducky. But a recent survey we conducted, asking men what they like to do...
It’s always tempting to squeeze a big dollop of shampoo into your hand when washing your hair, but the truth is that most of us use way (way!) more than we actually need to. According to stylist and all-around hair guru Cleve McMillan, here’s how much shampoo...
Hair We Go Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals. On the human scalp alone, the average number of hairs is 120,000 (natural blondes tend to have more, redheads less). It’s the second fastest growing tissue in the body (bone marrow is the fastest) and...
We’ve known for some time that grooming habits are changing—your grandad, in fact, probably wouldn’t even recognise most of your bathroom routine. With more and more guys taking their grooming cues from YouTube rather than their dads, moisturiser has become far more mainstream for men, as reflected...
Despite growing up with four older sisters, I’ve retained a few admittedly repulsive habits, and my towel situation is one of them. If you’re anything like me, you own one singular towel and you’re not sure where it came from — it appeared in your dorm or...
Sweaty-Sweaty Sweat-Sweat On average, humans sweat out approximately 278 gallons of sweat each year. We can’t sweat on our ears, lips and nails, but everywhere else on our body is capable of sweating. Women have more sweat glands than men, despite men actually producing more sweat overall....
The other day I got a hearty whiff of myself after a workout, only to come to the terrifying realisation that I now have the same body odour as my father. I have vivid memories of walking by my dad’s soiled jogging clothes as a kid, and...