Use Soap Before Water to Clean Greasy Hands
Photo: Kasarp Studio (Shutterstock) Everyone knows the traditional hand-washing procedure: get your hands nice and wet under running water, add soap, and scrub away for at least 20 seconds. Unfortunately,…
How to Improve Your Hand Dexterity (and Why It’s Important)
Photo: Robilad Co (Shutterstock) Over the past few months, it’s occurred to me that at my ripe old age of 30, I’ve lost some dexterity in my hands. I used…
10 Uses for Hand Sanitizer That Aren’t Cleaning Your Hands
Photo: yurakrasil (Shutterstock) In 2020, no household product loomed as large in the public consciousness as hand sanitizer. Back in March of that year—before we knew COVID-19 is mostly spread…
How to Keep Gardening From Ruining Your Hands
Photo: aquatti (Shutterstock) When working in your garden or yard, you go in with the expectation that you’re going to get a bit dirty—given that you’re probably working with actual…
Throw Out These Recalled Disney Hand Sanitizers, FDA Says
Though hand sanitizer has been around for decades, it became indispensable at the beginning of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic—and since then, the product has been subject to a number of…
Have You Been Holding Your Phone Wrong This Whole Time?
Photo: carballo (Shutterstock) Quick, how do you hold your phone? Is the bottom of it resting on your pinkie, while you cradle the back with your index, middle, and ring…
No, Your Feet Don’t Clean Themselves in the Shower
Photo: Olesya Kuznetsova (Shutterstock) We all know it’s crucial to wash our armpits and nether regions when we bathe—of this there is no doubt. We’re well-versed in the importance of…
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Germs Again
Photo: Nixx Photography (Shutterstock) Concerns about germs have shaped the last year and a half of everybody’s life, one germ in particular: the virus that causes COVID-19. But the billions…
How to Handle a Fellow Traveler Who Is Not Following COVID-19 Rules
Photo: Oleg Elkov (Shutterstock) At this stage in the pandemic, there’s no point even commenting on how much COVID-19 has changed air travel—that’s a given. And how has that been…
Robots can now give full-body personalised massages at home
By Alice Klein The massage robot from French firm Capsix is available to rentCapsix Robotics You can now get a massage without having to rely on another human being or…