Scarcely a day goes by without some scary story about glyphosate, the world鈥檚 most widely used herbicide. It is best known as the active ingredient in Monsanto鈥檚 鈥淩oundup鈥 which is used to kill...
Hair naturally gets its colour from a pigment molecule called melanin. There are 2 types of melanin: eumelanin, which gives hair and skin a brown or black hue, and pheomelanin, which gives the red...
The short answer is that if you note a scent, some of the chemicals responsible for the aroma are finding their way into your body. Whether or not these are harmful depends on which specific...
We received a question about antibacterial soaps, namely why should or shouldn鈥檛 we be using them? And if we鈥檙e supposed to avoid antibacterial soap, why is Purell, an antimicrobial agent, allowed?
It is disenchanting to see a respected former cardiac surgeon sink to the level of being a pusher of questionable supplements. Expertise in surgery is not connected to expertise in nutrition which...
Dousing oneself with a bucket full of ice water isn鈥檛 much fun, but at least that craze was cool. It had a point: raise money for ALS research. Biting into a laundry pod has no point, other than to...
If you watched the summer聽blockbuster Dunkirk, you may have been left with the same question as one of our readers: what is sea foam and why was there so much of it at Dunkirk?
They are being talked about all over the Internet as a way of clarifying the skin and removing 鈥渢oxins", but is there any science to back up the use of charcoal face masks?
鈥淢y lowest point was having to stop at Walgreen鈥檚 because I was on my way to a wedding and discovered I did not have any in my purse.聽 We had to make a quick detour to buy some. I bought 10 of them...