When it comes to our bodies, there are the regions that are treated in high regard, and then there are the regions that are treated with distrust, if not outright disdain. From the former, we’d likely include our arms, our legs, our chests and, of course, our...
We all have a few rogue body hairs that don’t abide by the rules: The random loner on top of the ear; the billowing straggler on your otherwise bare upper arm. They’re longer, coarser, curlier and usually darker than their neighboring fuzz, but what’s going on underneath...
Mistook your monthly magazine for a pack of One Wipe Charlies and flushed it down the toilet? No worries, here’s the online version! In this edition: Why Does Getting Wet Make My Skin Dry? Meet the Invisible Spiders Who Live in Your Skin! Why Do People Put...
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 smell...
We’ve written before about how that large dookie you left in the toilet is a window into your overall health, and as it turns out, your pee is very much the same. The color of your urine — which can range from completely clear to a shockingly...
Common sense (and every coronavirus prevention method ever) holds that regular hand-washing is a simple way to prevent the transmission of disease. The impact is so dramatic, several government agencies have published comprehensive hand-washing guides — douse your hands, administer soap, lather the backs, get between your...
Where you put cologne is almost as important as what scent you pick, because just as there are definitely right places to apply it, there are some seriously wrong ones, too. Cologne should go on the hottest parts of your body, where your blood vessels lie closest...
We mostly all agree that hot tubs, massages and the like feel good, but ask anyone why and you’ll get a shrug (which is fair! That person was trying to relax, after all). Understanding what these self-care activities are doing to your body — and more importantly,...
We’ve all experienced the agony of holding in a ripe poop. Maybe you’re on a date and you’re afraid of the monster broiling within; maybe you’re driving in the middle of the desert and even if you wanted to stop and poop, the only napkins you have...
If there’s one really annoying thing about shaving, it’s the unfortunate tendency to wind up with irritating little red bumps on the parts of your face where the prospect of irritating red bumps is most likely to maximize that annoyance. The neck, the crease around your chin,...
When rashes, blisters and sores force us to consider the kinds of microscopic critters hitching a ride on our bodies (and frequently giving us some sort of skin infection), we likely think about bacteria, or in the nastiest cases, some type of virus. And no wonder: Infections...
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...
