The set of practices perceived by a community to be associated with the preservation of health and healthy living.
Questions tagged [hygiene]
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Is washing your body too often bad for your skin?
This is not a question about washing your hair. It's about taking a shower too often - i.e. several times a day.
I remember I read somewhere that, in this case, your skin lost good bacteria that could be useful for health of your skin.
Now I can't…
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Do stainless-steel soap bars work to wash hands?
There are stainless steel soap products for washing hands.
For example, Blomus Stainless Steel Soap:
Simply rub on hands under running water to neutralize odors [...] Negatively-charged stainless steel soap combines with positive charge of cool…
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Are disposable contacts unsafe beyond their recommended time limits?
My wife is fussing at me because I've been wearing the same pair of 2 week contacts for probably 4 months now. My experience thus far is to only replace if they either tear or develop irritation. The eye doctor I got my prescription from said it can…
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Are foaming soap dispensers as effective as regular liquid soap dispensers?
I found these foaming soap dispensers on Amazon.
The seller says you can use regular liquid soap, diluted:
Combine 1 part liquid soap with 5 parts water or Fill with foaming soap solution / Castle Liquid Soap.
You use less soap per wash.
Foaming…
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Does washing salad remove E-coli?
I don't generally wash salad unless it looks dirty. It's not that I'm unaware of E-coli and pesticides etc, it's that I don't have any conviction that rinsing them with water will significantly remove such nasty contaminants.
Am I wrong? Is there…
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Was there a serious campaign of women wanting to free bleed their periods in response to a 4chan prank?
Knowyourmeme tells about this prank and how some women started some protests for being able to free bleed* their periods. It shows some twitter tweets about defending this practice.
This other pages somehow show that, at least in theory, the…
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Does Coca-Cola kill germs in the stomach?
My friend recently went on a trek where his guides suggested he drink Coca Cola to kill any germs in his stomach, so that he didn't get sick. It's given me a skeptical itch. Is there any truth to this?
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