If someone is told to take a cold shower in a TV show or movie, 99 percent of the time it’s because that someone is too horny and needs to (literally) chill out. Whether that’s actually true hasn’t been confirmed — turns out most scientists have better...
You would think washing the dishes counts as washing your hands — dish soap is usually stronger than hand soap, and you might well be giving each individual finger a proper exfoliation with that skillful maneuvering of the sponge. On the other hand, so to speak, you...
Belly buttons can be filled with any number of things: Dirt, sweat, lint and maybe even some jewelry if that’s what you’re into. But a 2012 study — appropriately titled, A Jungle in There: Bacteria in Belly Buttons are Highly Diverse, but Predictable — found that our...
Idle hands may be the devil’s playground, but a layabout towel is a back-to-back Coachella weekend for bacteria. To prevent germs (and their sidekick, rank odors) from proliferating in the fibers of your towels, they should be washed every few days, or as soon as they start...
I know, binge-watching weird YouTube videos and eating chips until three in the morning is extremely important. But now you have to deal with the consequences, and those consequences come in the form of deep bags under your eyes. The good news is, in most cases, both...
Acne sucks. What sucks even more is that it seemingly targets some of our most visible body parts: Our face, our chest and our upper back (so fun during beach season!) Why is that, though? It’s not like those areas are any more dirty or sweaty than...
When you’re going through puberty, it’s easy to believe one of the perks of adulthood is not having a pizza face. But alas, adulthood disappoints once again, because, for many of us, acne returns with a vengeance in our postpubertal years — in fact, studies indicate that...
Sad to say, wiping your behind with toilet paper is a feeble and unsanitary undertaking, because much as we might try, some dry paper is never going to do a truly thorough job of cleaning back there. Worse, besides being powerless against stubborn poop, vigorous wiping with...
If you’ve ever assumed dandruff was a purely human problem, you assumed wrong. Anything that has skin has a chance of that skin drying out and flaking off, even if that skin is surrounded by a fur coat — and that includes pets. Animals shed skin particles...
Most men aren’t exactly strangers to “moisturizing” their privates, even though, admittedly, silky-smooth skin isn’t normally the first thing on our minds when we reach for that lotion. But should we be moisturizing down there to keep our skin healthy? According to dermatologist Lisa Chipps, the answer...
Disclaimer: There’s no safe way to tan (and especially not to burn). Dermatologist Lisa Chipps made this abundantly clear when asked how to fade a sunburn into an even tan: “Don’t tan,” she responded. “Every time you tan, you increase your risk of developing skin cancer, brown...
There’s arguably nothing as uncomfortable as swamp ass — or, in plainer terms, an ultra sweaty crack. Unfortunately, in the middle of summer you don’t have much of a say in the muggy matter, but dermatologist Anthony Rossi has some tips on managing the moisture down under....
