Wellness

If you haven’t started your spring cleaning yet, here’s one good reason to start: spring cleaning can boost your wellness and promote the development of a variety of healthy habits for life.

Knowing when to leave the room, try a new cleaning product, or seek professional medical assistance could be the difference between a pleasant cleaning experience and a crummy one.

These days, “better safe than sorry” might also mean disinfecting sparingly, or in some cases, not disinfecting at all.

Odds are you’ve heard by now that your phone is… well, kind of disgusting. Here are some quick statistics: According to TIME, most cell phones are dirtier than a toilet seat—and in one study, high schoolers phones were found to have more than 17,000 gene copies on their phones’ screens. Phones are gross (even if you don’t bring your phone into the bathroom).When it comes to getting rid of germs quickly, most of us reach for a container of disinfecting wipes.

If you stockpiled disinfectants last year at the beginning of the pandemic, now’s a great time to check your stash.

It can ruin the surface and, if you forget to wipe it dry and turn on a burner, you release toxic gas into the air. Yikes.

According to experts, some parts of our infection prevention routine are still as important as they were last spring. Other practices aren’t as significant as we thought.

We consulted a group of cleaning and sexual health experts to field your burning questions about sexual hygiene at home. No inquiry was off limits — we got down and dirty with it so you don’t have to!

I had been opening drawers, digging through closets, and organizing basement corners I hadn’t touched in months — it was so obvious.