We all know how showers work. We use shampoo to get our hair clean, and body wash to get the day’s grime off our bodies. We may even shave in there! And all that dirt and sweat and oil and hair wash safely down the drain… except...
A bar of soap and a bottle of body wash: They both get your clean, right? Of course! But they also have several big differences that you should be aware of before you next hop in the shower. Both soap and body wash clean your body because...
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Much like humans, spiders have to drink water, which explains why they might hang out in your bath or shower stall. But unfortunately for those spiders, spending time in the bathroom might also mean being washed down the drain whenever you decide to take a shower (after...
I work from home, interact with people almost entirely through my computer camera and, most days, only leave my apartment to walk my dog. Put another way, so long as I seem even the slightest bit presentable on video calls, I can reasonably get away without showering...
Ah, to be a kid again: No worrying about things like taxes, or wrinkles, or whether you’ll have enough money to make rent (Owning a house? Please.) AND buy yourself dinner. Oh, and the other great thing about childhood? A mouth that doesn’t stink like a sewer....
Back in 2018, a strange life hack went viral. It purported that you could apply shaving cream to a sunburn instead of the more traditional aloe vera to reduce pain and swelling. And it turns out this is true! …technically. This nugget came from a Facebook post...
Every two hours. That’s the amount of time virtually every bottle of sunscreen you’ll ever buy says you have before reapplying its contents to protect your body from the sun. But…why? Some of the reasons are obvious: If you head into a pool or the ocean, the...
If you ever find yourself lost in the cosmetics aisle at your local drugstore — that aisle is a freaking labyrinth, dude — you know that there are all kinds of creams, balms and goops out there, characterized under all sorts of different names. Three of the...
When it comes to our bodies, there are the regions that are treated in high regard, and then there are the regions that are treated with distrust, if not outright disdain. From the former, we’d likely include our arms, our legs, our chests and, of course, our...
You’ve almost certainly heard of “shower thoughts,” those random ideas of incredible brilliance, profundity, and/or weirdness that seem to invariably hit us in the middle of a shower. There’s a decent chance you’ve had one or two yourself. But have you ever wondered why? To understand why...
There are still some naysayers when it comes to chest hair grooming: There are those that say chest hair is making a comeback, for example. There are even those who would argue that a good chest rug is healthy — that we evolved with chest hair because...
