Almost people think that hygiene is simply something to protect you from diseases. However, more than what you expect, hygiene can help you attract the gender-opposite persons. Below are five facts that you find hard to believe. But they are true.
1. Facial hair may repel female
There are five common styles of beard: clean-shaven, light stubble, heavy stubble, light beard and full beard. Women that participated in a study in UK in 2008 rated men with clean-shaven faces lowest to come to prospects of a long-term relationship.
Full beards are considered a signal of maturity, aggression and dominance but almost women do not feel appealed.
The stubble face hair seems to attract female most. The women rated it the highest of attractiveness and prospects for both long- and short-term relationships.
While another scientific interview by an Australian razor company found that ladies
2. A healthy mouth may equal a healthy heart
Flossing could improve your outlook. In addition, flossing daily bring a lot of benefits for your long, healthy life. It seems that gum disease is related to heart disease. Many studies state that you’re twice as likely to have heart disease if you have periodontal disease. It is shown the connection between artery plaque and mouth plaque. Once there are higher levels of harmful bacteria in the bloodstream, both the mouth and the arteries are affected. If harmful bacteria are present in either kind of plaque, they are present in the other type as well.
3. There’s Someone for Every Body Odor
Although role of pheromones in human attraction is still a controversial issue, some studies have shown your odor inform potential mates your immune system.
There are various genes including major histocompatibility complex (MHC) responsible for some of the coding related to fighting disease with the immune system. It seems that men with whom they have very dissimilar MHC genes less attract women.
Anyway, if your pheromones indicate you’re a perfect match for a particular woman, she’ll be less interested after her nose detects you’ve saved up a month’s worth of pheromones on your T-shirt in an effort to impress her.
4. Taking a bath daily is unnecessary
No matter what the soap commercials suggest how many times you should bathe in a day or a week, you do not need bathe daily. In decades and centuries past, it wasn’t uncommon for people to bathe weekly or even just monthly.
Bacteria are the cause of most body odor. They break down the sweat from under your arms or in your crotch area. If you don’t break a sweat, you’re not going to smell bad and you can skip the shower next time you spend a day waking late and watching reruns on your couch before calling it an early night, especially in winter when you’re less likely to perspire.
Bacteria are not totally bad for your health. Some are beneficial to both your skin and your overall health. Bathing daily could strip these good bacteria and natural oils from your skin.
Moreover, shampoo daily is unnecessary. If doing so, you will dry or irritate your scalp.
5. 1 in 4 American men has hand-washing habits
Washing hands after using the bathroom decreases the risk of viral infections, such as flu and MRSA, a highly contagious staph infection as well as food poisoning as it facilitates the spreading of salmonella and E. coli onto eating surfaces, utensils and the food itself.
Washing hands is beneficial but 1 in 4 men still doesn’t, according to one 2010 study of American hand-washing habits.
So wash your hands with soap or an antibacterial hand wash for at least 30s. Wash your hands before eating, preparing food, taking or giving medicine, and coming into contact with an infant or someone in poor health. Wash your hands after eating, using the bathroom, having contact with someone who’s sick, blowing your nose or coughing, or high-fiving someone who’s just blown his nose or coughed.