There’s no meal quite like Thanksgiving dinner to remind us that we’re at the absolute mercy of our appetites. No one really needs that third helping of turkey-topped taters—except, perhaps, Tarrare, the disgusting French glutton we talked about in November’s issue of Bathroom Minutes. But since we’re...
Annoying as it is, there are parts of our bodies we should be getting checked out way more often than we do. In this edition, we’re taking a long, loving look into your eyes, alongside our expert advisor Dr. Andrea Thau, optometrist and president of the American...
With Thanksgiving looming, it’s likely that you’ll soon find yourself faced with a monumental decision as you fly to see your family—do you recline the seat, or leave it upright? Do you choose your own comfort, or the comfort of those around you? To help you make...
After we ran this piece on whether or not manscaping a lone body part looks odd, a few readers asked us what the term manscaping really refers to—does it simply mean any kind of trimming of body hair, or is it strictly referring to trimming below the...
Thanksgiving is a day of peaks and valleys: We get to spend time with family! But then there’s that cousin and those nephews. We get to stuff our faces with delicious food! But then we have to spend two hours with the meat sweats. We can all...
Mouths are home to many odd sensations, but perhaps one of the strangest is the instant freeze that occurs when following a minty stick of gum with a gulp of cold water. Therefore, in this edition of It’s Not a Stupid Question, we ask why the heck...
It’s easy to think washing your hands after a trip to the restroom is optional—after all, you only touched your own body parts in there, right? But one of our recent surveys showed that less than two-thirds of men consistently wash their hands after peeing, which is...
Got stuffing stuffed between your teeth? Dentist Michelle Ashcraft’s flossing routine will have it out in no time. If you have any grooming-related questions that make you say “OH, FAQ!“, email us at bm@dollarshaveclub.com and we’ll answer it in an upcoming post.
With Thanksgiving travel and Black Friday shopping on the horizon—and all the waiting in line that brings—we’re all going to need a little patience. Unfortunately, patience is something many of us have absolutely none of. But we don’t have to be a foot-tapping mess when things don’t...
When you’ve got one foot propped on the shower wall, the other trying not to slip on the wet floor, allowing soapy runoff to clean your feet suddenly seems like a reasonable option. Is that enough to prevent stinky toes? Do we really have to scrub our...
Are you one of those guys who wants to look stylish but finds it doesn’t come all that naturally? We feel you. Don’t fret: With some advice from Jessica Chance, men’s stylist at Rag & Bone and menswear blogger, we’re all going to learn how to dress...
Our Brains Get Fried If We Don’t Yawn Enough In an attempt to discover the purpose of yawning, researchers from the State University of New York found a link between yawn duration and density of cortical neurons—a.k.a. the things that make our brains work. In the study,...