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...
As a foremost proponent of baths, I’ve always found exchanges like this on the Giant Bomb forum both hilarious and counterproductive. “So I just had a bath, I never have baths because my parents told me girls take baths [and] men take showers. But I really enjoyed...
Five o’clock shadow naturally straddles the line between purposefully rugged and nonchalantly indifferent, and while most men aim to achieve the former by growing out their stubble, many end up looking like they simply forgot to shave while binge-watching YouTube videos and eating chips for 50 hours...
Since essentially the dawn of marketing, skincare products have been peddled to men in more or less the same exact way — in blue or dude-ly earth tones that say (sometimes outright) that this stuff is both easy to apply and a shortcut to making the ladies...
Branden, a musician in California, has a unique shower routine: He turns on the water, gets in the tub and plops his butt down, lying supine and still while the hot water pounds his hangover away. He’s a shower sitter—and just one of a number of guys who...
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...
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...
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....
When was the last time you replaced your plunger? You have no idea, do you? Do you even know how you got your plunger? Was it a gift? Maybe it came with the house? Unless you’re a plumber or a major germaphobe, you probably can’t answer any of these questions. Same...
We all know there’s a certain satisfaction in blindly uprooting one or two nose hairs—or as many as can be corralled between the thumb and forefinger before the light turns green—and then celebrating with a massive, bestial sneeze. Trouble is, it turns out, this could kill you....
Waxing hurts: Anyone who’s seen The 40-Year-Old-Virgin knows that. But some body parts are notably more painful to have waxed than others, so to help better understand what kind of pain you might be in for, I asked Melanie Mari, owner and licensed esthetician at Bare Skin...
As we’ve discussed before in our podcast about whether or not it’s possible to have sex in space, floating around in zero gravity comes with its own set of problems. Even mundane chores like brushing your teeth become troublesome, but the one that interested us the most—naturally—is...