Anyone who owns a shower curtain knows one thing for sure: It’s going to engulf them as soon as they turn the water on. This strange phenomenon is called the shower-curtain effect, and while there’s no conclusive explanation for why running water causes shower curtains to billow...
Let’s have a little talk about eye cream, which will make a nice change from us talking about stuff like eye gunk. Eye cream can help rescue your under-eye zone from looking dark and puffy, nudging it towards refreshed, invigorated and just plain satisfying to look at,...
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...
There are those who believe that one secret to a happy relationship is having separate bathrooms, which makes sense when you consider all the less-than-attractive things we do in there. But what happens when there’s only one bathroom at your disposal? Does that mean you’re doomed to...
Ingrown hairs are no good no matter where they’re located on your skin — they’re painful and can even become infected. But on your balls? They’re especially annoying. If you’ve got ‘em, though, don’t despair just yet. Ingrown hairs, a.k.a razor bumps, a.k.a pseudofolliculitis barbae, occur when...
Nothing ruins a good shave quite like itchy skin. Sure, your face/legs/armpits/whatever else might look as smooth as a baby’s bottom (or even your own bottom, if that’s what you shaved), but it feels like it’s on fire, or worse, like there are things crawling on it...
Nearly 30 percent of guys are regularly trimming their pubes, according to one of our surveys. In related — and unfortunate — news, the number of pube-grooming injuries increased fivefold from 2002 to 2010, which, well, it sounds like a few of us could still use a lesson...
We get asked a lot of shaving questions here at Dollar Shave Club (who’d have thought?), from simple stuff like how to shave with the grain right through to the tricky business of maintaining a smooth posterior. And you know what? We’re happy to answer them. So,...
83 percent of guys trim some or all of their body hair, according to a survey we conducted a few years back. What they may not realize, though, is that manscaping is good for more than just feeling silky smooth: It reduces body odor, too. Here’s how...
The phrase “a little goes a long way” could have been created specifically for cologne. It doesn’t take much — at all — to go from smelling good to smelling like a department store’s perfume counter detonated on your shirt. But sometimes, it can be tough to...
These hot summer months can cause a lot of swamp ass, and therefore rashes that result from that radioactive concoction of sweat and bacteria brewing between them cheeks. To help you keep your own personal Grand Canyon fresh, I asked four very different butt rash experts how...
There’s a very simple secret behind how to shave without getting cut: Use a fresh blade, silly! An old, dull blade — combined with a less-than-stellar shaving technique — can cause cuts to happen more frequently. That’s because, as your razor ages, water and pressure combine to...
