If there’s anything we Americans are obsessed with, it’s hygiene. In fact, the average American showers every day and some even shower twice a day, according to a recent poll. Dermatologists have long held that showering every day essentially wrecks our skin, but what’s more important: Silky...
Step aside, Aquaman: According to a recent survey we conducted, four percent of men spend 15 minutes or more in their daily shower. Now, granted, 4% is not a lot. Even so, we had to pause a moment and wonder how anyone finds the time to spend...
We’ve debated before about whether or not giving your feet a good scrub while showering is required, but this is the first time we’ve actually reached out to you guys to find out who’s skipping this step. Turns out, 28% of you don’t consider it necessary to...
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...
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...
While it’s always nice to squeeze a half-bottle of shower gel into your hand and work up a lather that would make an Ibiza foam party jealous, the truth is, most of us are using way too much of it. According to Dollar Shave Club’s resident product...
If you’ve ever had a soap or shampoo send your skin into a tingling frenzy, you might have wondered just what’s going on there. And if you didn’t read the label and weren’t expecting your skin to suddenly start tingling, you may have wondered the same thing...
First off, never let anyone you want to share those sheets with hear you ask that question, especially if you’re really emphasizing the “need” part. Second, ask yourself honestly, how often are you washing your sheets right now? If you’re not even sure when you last washed...
Showers as we know them today are hot and steamy. But they weren’t always that way. In fact, “history has been divided between washing yourself with hot water and washing yourself with cold water,” according to Katherine Ashenburg, author of The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History....
Chances are, like everyone else, you hop into the shower at even the thought of dirt and/or sweat grazing your skin. And while that “cleanliness-is-next-to-godliness” impulse isn’t exactly necessary—dermatologists say showering once or twice a week is enough to maintain an acceptable level of hygiene—making sure dirt,...
Bubbles are supposedly the gentle, harmless playthings of children and fairy godmothers. But that doesn’t mean they can’t have a nasty streak. In fact, the nastiest ones are some of the most common—those bubbles we’ve come to expect from shampoos, body washes and toothpastes. They’re produced by...
Everyone’s got a way of doing things in the bathroom, and that way is the way. Just ask them. And while there’s never really a right answer to these restroom-related disputes—toilet paper can sit under the roll, shaving in the shower is A-OK and guys that sit...
