Health and personal hygiene go hand in hand. Poor hygiene can increase the risk of illness, making it essential to maintain ...

Hygiene isn’t just a modern fad. It’s an instinct that humans evolved for well before bathtubs, loofahs, and shampoo. Archaeological evidence suggests humans began combing, plucking, and cutting their ...

For many people, it is the standard of proper hygiene. But historians tell us daily bathing became possible, and then increasingly common, with the advent of modern plumbing at the turn of the ...

Hair washing, like bathing, was not an important part of Americans' hygiene practices before the turn of the century. Rather, hair care practices focused on keeping hair thick, young-looking, styled, ...