Little, yellow, different. Not just a way to describe the Advil of yesteryear, but also a way to describe the armpit region of the shirts you wear most often. The yellow, crusty residue taking up permanent residence inside your favorite shirts is due to an unfortunate reaction...
Sort of like the order in which you stretch and workout—or pour lemonade and iced tea into your Arnold Palmer—it’s not important whether you brush or floss first. The important thing is that you’re brushing and flossing (or flossing and brushing) frequently; your toothbrush and roll of...
It depends on where you most look like a human werewolf. If your body hair is thickest on your arms, legs and back, you might be mocked as much as the Chia Pet you resemble. But it won’t cause you to smell any worse than your smooth-skinned...
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...
Twenty years ago, on November 15, 1994, writer Mark Simpson invented the term metrosexual. Writing for Britain’s Independent newspaper, he was the first to classify this new urban class of well-to-do men: Metrosexual man, the single young man with a high disposable income, living or working in...
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...