Do You Fancy an Outdoor Shower?


Updated 06/16/11 10:09 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Outdoor Showers

If you own a Summer home by the ocean and/or with a pool, it can be a treat to have an outdoor shower for rinsing off the sand and chlorine before you enter your home. Granted, it's a luxury, and a hose would do just as well. Some would still prefer to wrap up in a towel and shower indoors, though. If you could afford it — as well as a Summer home or home in a warm climate — would you Read more

Do You Have a Glass or Curtained Shower?


Updated 03/27/11 8:00 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Photo of a Glass-Enclosed Shower

I live in a rental with a curtained shower and absolutely love my shower curtain, but I do covet the open feeling a glass-enclosed shower offers. They're also pretty easy to clean — just a spritz and you're done, and there's no moldy curtain liners to wash. Glass showers have an undeniably modern look, though, so they don't suit all styles. Which do you have? Do You Have a Glass or Read more

5 Ways to Make Your Showers Shorter


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Five Ways to Shorten Your Shower

Taking long showers does more than just raise your water and heating bills. It also dries your skin out, wastes water, and annoys the other people in your household. As a chronic long shower-taker, I'm trying to ween myself off of lengthy sojourns in my favorite tiny tiled room, and I've come across quite a few helpful tips along the way. So to get help kicking the habit, just keep reading. Read more

Link Time — Why It's Hard to Get Down and Dirty in the Bathroom


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How to Have Sex in the Shower

The master bath: why the bathroom isn't a place for romance — Good Men Project Lighten up your love life — Glo "I dated a true-love-waits Christian" — The Frisky Why guy friends might be falling for you — Em & Lo How to get your ex back — YourTango Showing affection, while avoiding clinginess — Glamour Dating dilemma: who picks up the tab? — SavvySugar Dirty old men from Read more

Do You Have a Multiple Jet Shower?


Updated 11/29/10 4:07 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Poll on Multiple Jet Shower in Iceland

Annie from BellaSugar recently shared this picture of a shower from her hotel in Reykjavik, Iceland. As you can see, she was treated to a myriad of shower jets for her daily ablution. Tell me, do you have something similar at your home? Do You Have a Multiple Jet Shower? Yes, I have one. No, but I'd love a shower like this. No, it's not my style. Read more

Trend Alert: Bathing Less


Updated 11/08/10 10:46 AM · Posted by · 23 comments

People Are Bathing Less

These days, there are enough soaps, scrubs, shampoos, and deodorants to seemingly eradicate every last germ. But for some people, these types of personal hygiene products are being shoved to the wayside as a nonbathing trend is becoming more popular. "We don’t need to wash the way we did when we were farmers," Katherine Ashenburg, author of The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History, told the Read more

Ever More Delicious Halloween Treat . . . or Soap?


Updated 10/20/10 11:13 PM · Posted by · 2 comments

New Realistic Candy Soaps for Halloween

You guys, I am so, so hungry after I do one of these things. I'm deeply shamed by this, but as I write I'm salivating over the mere thought of those Brach's Fall Mix pumpkins. Why is it so hard to tell yourself that these soaps aren't edible, and how on earth do you keep from putting tooth to bar just to see? These are questions that have no answer (unless you're a cognitive scientist). In the Read more

Scrumptious Caramel Apple . . . or Soap?


Updated 10/10/10 6:39 PM · Posted by · 4 comments

Realistic New Halloween Caramel Apple Soaps

Know what's good? Like, really good? Caramel apples. And now that cooler weather has hit, they're appearing at fairs and on grocery store shelves all over the place. Unfortunately, these babies aren't so healthy (despite that whole apple thing), which is why, I presume, a whole host of soap-makers have made scented proxies for these delicacies. Can you guess how many of these apples are the real Read more

Yummy Halloween Cupcake . . . or Soap?


Updated 12/27/10 3:25 AM · Posted by · 4 comments

Realistic New Halloween Cupcake Soaps

Friends, the Great Candy Evening will soon be upon us, and there's a surfeit of stuff to tempt your sweet tooth being produced. But not everything that looks toothsome is intended to come into actual contact with your teeth, especially given how many disturbingly realistic cupcake soaps there are today. Can you get all Buffy on these soaps in disguise and slay their claims to cake-hood? Take this Read more