From meticulously clean to comfortably casual, our personal habits often reflect more than just individual ...

My first memories of bathing were of my mom dragging me into the bathtub kicking and screaming. Those days are long gone, and I’m now a once-a-day-shower kind of guy. Perhaps that’s why, as of ...

In fact, the history of bathing is only partially related to hygiene. People have often gone well beyond the call of mere physical cleanliness. As University of Kent sociologist Julia Twigg wrote in ...

My first memories of bathing were of my mom dragging me into the bathtub kicking and screaming. Those days are long gone, and I’m now a once-a-day-shower kind of guy. Perhaps that’s why, as of ...

CNN’s Harry Enten wonders if he and the roughly two-thirds of Americans who shower once a day have it wrong? What if bathing every day is not the best way to be hygienic?