MetaFilter posts tagged with hygiene

A People's Guide to Better Living

netbros — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:42:54 -0800

How to Get Rid of Things — a do-it-yourself guide dedicated to helping you prevent, eliminate or remove common annoyances from your life. For example: How to Get Rid of Voles. "Once you have the vole in hand, simply squeeze until you hear the pop." How to Get Rid of Love Bites — Kayan neck rings; the best defense against love bites. How to Get Rid of Goth Kids — Unlike an itchy nose when you're unable to scratch it, Goths tend to go away when ignored. How to Get Rid of Cat Urine — Sorry hippies, all the Nag Champa in India won't cover up that smell. And many more...

Clean as a whistle!

Flem Snopes — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:24:47 -0800

Bleachbum: for a youthful appearance everywhere BleachBum.com is your source for information about anal bleaching products and procedures. Anal bleaching is one more way holly wood celebrities try to stay younger. While rectal bleaching isn't for everyone, some people are interested in maintaining a youthful look...everywhere.

Gee, Your Penis Smells Terrific!

amyms — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:10:49 -0800

Does Your Penis Smell Perfect? Have you ever asked yourself: "Why is it that no matter how much time and effort I put into washing my penis in the shower, I still get that awful whiff of a rancid smell throughout the day, or even right after a shower?" Nodoro has the solution. There are commercials (Are they real or parodies?) here. Via.

Four out of Five People Wash Their Hands.

grabbingsand — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:46:04 -0800

Four out of Five People Wash Their Hands. Don't be that Fifth Guy. While you're at it, cover your mouth when you cough and stay home when you're sick. Really, how many times do we have to tell you? Wash. Your. Hands. Seriously. Who's the Fifth Guy? "The Florida Department of Health set out to prepare people for the potential of a flu pandemic, but they faced a tough challenge: No pandemic on the horizon ... Then they built the campaign around what does matter to people: Fitting in."*

wash your hands (a PSA)

tarheelcoxn — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:24:23 -0800

Don't want the flu? Wash your hands! Washing your hands is not the only way to prevent the flu, but it's clearly important. Note that not all hand sanitizers are effective! Also, way to go ladies (90% of you, anyway). Guys, we need to catch up. Can you tell I'm home sick?

Those mud pies were actually good for you.

amyms — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:11:41 -0800

Have You Eaten Your Dirt Today, Honey? A New Approach To The Hygiene Hypothesis. The hypothesis argues: The reason why there is so much asthma, eczema, allergies and maybe even childhood diabetes in the modern world is because we — well infants really — live in too clean a universe. What our baby immune systems need is a kickstart by exposure to viruses, bacteria, worms, pollutants and so on. If you don’t get an infant hit from these icons of uncleanliness, the immune system goes haywire and your body over-reacts to all sorts of invasive things that normally could be ignored. Via. More information on the Hygiene Hypothesis: Are We Too Clean For Our Own Good? (2004) Hygiene Hypothesis from PBS' Evolution series (2001) Modern Hygiene's Dirty Tricks (1999) Hygiene Hypothesis on Wikipedia

Water

homunculus — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:25:40 -0800

Conditions for Iraqi children affected by violence and displacement have reached a critical point, according to UNICEF (PDF). One of the worst problems is the lack of clean water: only an estimated 30 per cent have access to safe water that isn't contaminated.

What Would Grandma Do?

amyms — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:59:58 -0800

Miss Abigail's Time Warp Advice. Miss Abigail dispenses wisdom from her collection of vintage advice books (published from 1822 to 1978). Topics include Minding Your Manners, Looking And Feeling Good, Around The House, Frank Talk About Petting, and much more. The advice ranges from the very useful to the hilariously quaint, with some unenlightened shockers thrown in for good measure.

Yes, Lysol.

jonson — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:51:56 -0800

Lysol?

http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/

monju_bosatsu — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:53:53 -0800

Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH). From Cornell University, HEARTH is an internet resource collecting home economics texts from 1850 to 1950, including Meals that cook themselves and cut the costs, by Christine Frederick (1915), and The young woman's guide to excellence, by William A. Alcott (1852), as well as the Journal of Home Economics from 1909 to 1980.

When you just can't bring yourself to hit the HABA aisle...

rushmc — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:49:59 -0800

Toothbrush subscriptions for yourself, your family, and your pets.

Don't blame me, I voted for Vermin Supreme!

ph00dz — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 07:53:10 -0800

Don't blame me, I voted for Vermin Supreme! While the D.C. Primary hasn't attracted the same level of attention as the Iowa Caucus, one candidate continues to fight for what is right. Mr. Supreme understands the REAL threat facing our great nation -- poor dental hygeine.

Men who know say NO!

JoanArkham — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:45:52 -0800

American Social Hygiene Posters from the University of Minnesota. Remember boys, You may think she's just your gal, but she may be everyone's pal.

Hygiene in the Middle Ages

eyebeam — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:13:33 -0800

Filthy secrets of medieval toilets: Featuring the Royal Water Closet of French King John the Fearless. "Lesser mortals of course had less sophisticated apparatus... Some were no more than holes built into the wall, others were primitive outhouses perched with wooden supports onto an upper story. A series of mediaeval illuminations at the exhibition shows that accidents in these contraptions were common." Mon dieu!

milkman — Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:03:31 -0800

More disturbing mismanagement in Kansas City This time at the VA hospital: A recent report in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine said that the hospital in Kansas City was overrun with flies and mice in mid-1998. Nurses even found maggots growing in the noses of two comatose patients. Both patients, astoundingly, were in the intensive-care unit.

dogmatic — Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:00:59 -0800

Like crack for your mouth! Throw your Altoids and TicTacs away! CoolMint Listerine PocketPaks are little strips of breath-freshening goodness that don't just mask bad-smelling mouth germs--they kill the little buggers. Makes other breath mints seem like candy. Anybody else try them yet? As a reformed Altoids abuser, I can safely say I'm addicted.

plinth — Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:45:07 -0800

At least he's clean.