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Who does what chore can be a major source of tension in many households. Our survey of same-sex couples and their routines revealed four key strategies that can help lighten the load for everyone.
Wildfire smoke, even from fires far away, carries potentially harmful gases that, once inside, tend to stick around. An air quality specialist offers an easy, cheap, effective way to deal with it.
Long-term tidiness can require a consistent approach to keeping chaos at bay. But your possessions don’t have to control your life. New research is showing how tidy people maintain their homes.
A microbiologist on the deadly germs lurking in your kitchen and why you need to wash tea towels and dishcloths more often.
Your mobile phone is 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat. Here’s what to do about it.
It’s estimated that 1.63 million tons of material will be produced in 2023 for wet wipes.
Breaking the cycle of eldest daughter syndrome: tips for families.
The filthy secrets of hotel rooms and why you might want to pack disinfectant on your next trip.
UV lights come in a variety of different wavelengths, but not all are equally effective at disinfection. Researchers tested a number of commercially available lights to find the best.
Early reports suggested an apparent increase in OCD relapse rates and symptom severity during the pandemic. But a year on, we’re learning this may not be the case.
A deep clean involves cleaning objects or surfaces that may not be routinely cleaned, such as walls, ventilation ducts, curtains, carpets, and hard-to-reach places.
There are a number of things you should do, including keeping the person with COVID-19 isolated, and cleaning regularly.
The outsourcing of domestic work contributes to the race, class and gender stereotypes of domestic work. It has neither elevated the status nor improved the working conditions of domestic workers.
Behaviors that would have been seen as pathological a few months ago are now applauded as adaptive and resourceful. Where do doctors draw the line?
Many of our cleaners have neither the time nor the resources to do the job properly, yet some do the job really well. The difference points to a way forward.
With hand-washing top of mind, soap is an integral part of keeping clean. But people through the ages relied on earlier forms of soap more for cleaning objects than for personal hygiene.
We spend 90% of our lives indoors, and every building has its own indoor microbiome. Can we learn to manage them in ways that support helpful microbes and suppress harmful ones?
Here are the most effective cleaning solutions to keep your home free of coronavirus.
Cleaning surfaces, dishes and laundry the right way can help maintain hygiene in your house.
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