Let’s set the record straight: While there are antiperspirant deodorants out there, antiperspirants and deodorants aren’t one and the same. In fact, according to chemist and product wiz Fadi Mourad, these two chemical compounds — while often combined into a single product — function very differently when applied...
Your skin is like the night sky. (I am not on drugs. Please just hear me out.) Ahem, your skin is like the night sky, peppered with various otherworldly spots that confuse and bewilder the majority of us. To make sense of these markings, we asked some...
Dermatologists have told us time and time again that popping a pimple is just about the worst thing you can do. But when you have a colossal yellow honker growing from your forehead, something needs to be done, so I spoke with several skincare experts about their...
When you gotta go, you gotta go — even if that means squatting in a heavily-used public restroom. During moments like these, some turn to toilet seat covers as a last-ditch effort to protect their behinds from legions of strangers’ germs. But is that thin toilet-seat-shaped sheet...
The necessity for toilet paper has existed since long before the invention of paper (or, indeed, toilets). Initially, the most common solution for bum-wiping was whatever happened to be within arm’s reach, and there was nothing, er, ‘charming’, shall we say, about the shells, snow, sheep’s wool,...
Every now and again, you’ll encounter someone — a colleague, a friend of a friend, a stranger on the bus — who seems somehow oblivious to the fact that holy cow, they stink. It may be overpowering B.O., wafts of cheesy feet stench or just plain old...
Taking the time to shower and put on deodorant or antiperspirant before sweating on an elliptical, then sweating even more on a workout bench that was already saturated with foreign sweat, might seem like an absurd and pointless endeavor. But before heading straight to the gym without...
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...
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...
We humans sure are a sweaty bunch. Everything from heat, nerves, fever and stress can wring us out like a wet rag. This almost constant state of perspiration left us wondering what sweat actually does to your skin when you don’t wash it off. And as it...
The human body is capable of expelling various offensive aromas, but which of the two most prevalent stenches is the most unpleasant: Body odor or bad breath? Let’s take a scientific look to crown the officially nose-wrinkling king of stink. What Causes Body Odor The short answer...
