For those of you familiar with the five o’clock shadow, the irritation begins mere hours after you shave. Or put another way, the exact moment your sharp, razor-shorn hairs poke through the surface of your skin. “Shaving your beard with a razor cuts the hairs at an...
An unscrubbed back is not a fatal condition. So you don’t HAVE to soap it up every time you step into the shower. But don’t take that as an open invitation to never wash it. Like every other body part, your back can benefit from some lather...
In a word, yes. Kaiser Permanente dermatologist Paradi Mirmirani says that not only is shampoo run-off enough to clean the rest of your body, but plain ol’ water does the job just fine by itself. “I often tell my patients that they don’t need to use soap...
