First, something to consider: White teeth aren’t necessarily healthy teeth. The British, for example, who are well-known for their popcorn mouths, generally have healthier teeth than Americans, who are obsessed with blinding white smiles. Still, there’s normally no harm in whitening your teeth for vanity’s sake, so...
If you want to know how to shave in the shower, you have to come to terms with this: You absolutely must invest in a fogless mirror. But don’t let that discourage you — there are plenty of benefits to shaving in the shower that make this...
There’s never a good time to run out of whatever nicely scented accoutrement prevents you from smelling like the mildewy sack of skin that covers your organs. But for some reason, it always seems to happen at exactly the time you most need your body to not...
Some couples have no problem sharing a razor, while others flat out refuse. So who’s right? As much as, professionally speaking, I should probably give you a well-balanced, point/counterpoint on the topic, weighing all the evidence on one side versus the other, I’m absolutely not going to...
After years of showering on a daily basis, you’d think stepping out completely clean is a given. Some body parts, however, are easy to miss, and so are often left unwashed for weeks at a time. Below is a list of every hard-to-reach body part, how to...
Here’s a deadly combo: You shave every morning, but you have sensitive skin. As a result, your face is chronically plagued with dryness, razor bumps and ingrown hairs. But you (and your face) don’t have to live like that. Equipped with these tips from dermatologist Anthony Rossi,...
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...
First of all, if you’ve run out of shave lather or shave butter, shame on you! It has literally never been easier to keep stocked with shaving supplies. But let’s assume the worst has happened: You have a week’s worth of stubble, a job interview in two...
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...