Making your bed is bad for you – just ask the experts on TikTok

A tidy duvet is heaven for dust mites and hell for asthma sufferers, claims a post that has been viewed more than 2.7m times

Wearing shoes inside the house is gross – and there’s science to back that up

Walking barefoot can boost your circulation, improve sleep quality and reduce inflammation, pain and tension, reflexologists say

That used car smell: how to deal with a stinky vehicle

From cigarette smoke to stale food, dealing with car smells requires specialised strategies depending on the cause

Hot water helped me heal. A decade on, a bath is still the best part of my day

There’s something special about a wintertime bath, and for those who deal with pain it can be more necessity than luxury

One in four Britons don’t shower every day. And the rest aren’t doing it right

Do you know the difference between a shower with a small S, a Shower with a capital S, a Sur-er and a man shower? Let me share my decades of accumulated wisdom

‘My parents helped me pack lube’: from sex toys to bidets, the lockdown businesses that boomed

While some firms have been devastated as Covid-19 grips the planet, others have seen their sales go off the chart. How have they coped?

I’ve always been hot on hand hygiene – I even dried them in the oven

I was ahead of the curve, but handwashing is now more important than ever. So why is it so hard to find somewhere to do it?

How to keep your hands clean – without getting dry skin

Repeated hand-washing is leading more of us to complain of cracked or chapped skin. Here’s what the experts recommend

Hand sanitizer or hand washing: which is better against coronavirus?

Supermarkets are running out of hand sanitizer as people rush to protect themselves from Covid-19. But does it beat using soap and water?

‘I don’t smell!’ Meet the people who have stopped washing

A growing number of people are eschewing soap and trusting bacteria to do the job instead – and an entire industry has sprung up to accommodate them