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GROOMING, LIKE SO MANY THINGS, IS NOT A MATTER OF FOLLOWING ORDERS. YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S RIGHT FOR YOU WHAT'S WORTH IT TO YOU. TO HELP WITH THAT DECISION, THE FOLLOWING [...]

To be a man who's not mistaken for an older man (or an unkempt one), you should care about personal grooming. But only just enough. Unless it's your job--which, in [...]

CHARGED WITH PICKING the absolute best in men's hair, shaving, and body products regardless of price or brand. I spent a month trying every grooming item that my body-and wife-could [...]

In the following pages, we present three categories of man--all mighty and admirable in their own right--and the best rituals and elixirs for each. Plus, the case for not neglecting [...]

For the fifth year in a row, I tested every new soap, shampoo, and sloughing agent I could get my hands on. It took two months, but I finally settled [...]

NATURAL vs. STYLED That was the debate in a year of transition. Bruce became Caitlyn. The presidential race saw a new crew of wispy-haired poll leaders. And then there was [...]

Your skin feels dry. A little itchy. With less moisture in the air, your skin dries out and can be uncomfortable. Dr. Jessica Krant, assistant clinical professor of dermatology at [...]

Coloring your hair used to be for guys fleeing the Mob. No more. Adding color is the new style swerve. Here's what you need to know. THERE ARE TWO REASONS [...]

UNLESS YOU ARE actually trying to look like this guy, you know you need to integrate sunscreen into your daily grooming ritual. The [1] Lab Series Daily Moisture Defense lotion [...]

THE LOCKER ROOM is a place of unspoken rules. And those rules are far easier to manage if you apply two guiding principles to all you do there: Use everything [...]

Every year since 2006, I've gone through hundreds of gels, creams, and even talcs--all in search of the best new products for men. Yeah, it fills my shower. But not [...]

First, a question: Do you wash your feet? As in, while showering, do you lift them up or crouch or sit cross-legged on the shower floor in your sailor cap [...]

For most of us--runners, roofers, poolside loungers--sweating is great. It cools us. It makes our skin appear healthier. It Is an accomplishment--except, well, when It Isn't. Like when you're 15 [...]

About half of all men in America use moisturizer on their face right now, and the other half are well aware, thank you very much, that they really ought to [...]

When you think about your hair, you focus on the length, the cut, how much of it is left--but I bet you never consider the part. Turns out it might [...]

Why, yes, there are plenty of perfectly normal, non-serial-killer men who care about the latest in dermatological innovations. Men's skin care is one of the largest growth areas in the [...]

Aftershave Most Old Spice offerings don't have km, all that much in common with the company's original products from the 1930s. However, [1] Old Spice Classic aftershave ($9; cvs.com) is [...]

DON'T LIKE THAT GREASY FEELING? THEN DITCH THE DAMN CREAMS. Most men would just as soon bathe in a vat of Valvoline as use body And hair oils, and that's [...]

In an effort to make their hair look good each day, many men are actually destroying it. No one is going to care how you style it when they get [...]

There was a time when beachgoers would slather on oil and bake like a deep-fried turkey. It wasn't safe then, but It's definitely not safe now, with the sun's UVA [...]

... AND PASTE, AND CREAM, AND EVEN GEL. A SCIENTIFICAL LOOK AT THE STUFF YOU'VE BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR HAIR. Before you worry about your hair products, you should understand [...]

The Smell Your body has two different types of sweat glands: apocrine (found in places like your armpits, groin, and, oddly enough, eyelids) and eccrine (everywhere else). Eccrine glands are [...]

Composition Eau de toilette (what most of us refer to as cologne) contains 12 to 15 percent actual fragrance oil. The rest is odorless alcohol, maybe a little water. The [...]

A COMPLETELY UNBORING, TOTALLY SCIENTIFICAL LOOK AT THE BEST SHAVE CREAMS. HOW THEY WORK. AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW--AND LOOK FOR--TO MAKE SURE YOURS WORKS. TOO The Skeleton Although they [...]

Unless you're exceedingly meticulous in your mouth care, chances are you've never even looked at an oral irrigator. The little hose used to clean between your teeth and around and [...]

If it's done right--which is to say, if it's tended to with care and frequency--facial hair can be more than just the mark of a weekend stretching into the workweek. [...]

IT'S TIME FOR BEACHES, FLIP-FLOPS, AND FINALLY CARING FOR THOSE THINGS YOU USUALLY HIDE IN SHOES. ANY QUESTIONS? 1. I don't want pretty feet, just unembarrassing feet. What should I [...]

Cologne, at this point, is not much more than a generic term. While it originally referred to a specific, mostly citrus fragrance made with water from Cologne, Germany, in the [...]

Forget careful combinations of spice and bergamot, leather and primrose. When a man wants to smell like a man (who wants to smell like a cologne), there is one family [...]

It's one of the benefits of being a man: Your personal upkeep is in no way demanding. Aside from a couple of responsibilities--general cleansing, maybe moismrizer--there's not much that you [...]

Like prostate exams and MSNBC, hair loss can be an inevitable part of getting older. It comes in many varieties, ranging from a slightly receding hairline to complete baldness to [...]

There is no shame in moisturizer. Eye cream, however, you may not want to leave out on your counter. After last year's Fu Manchu, Brad Pitt's grooming habits are no [...]

Properly caring for your hands and feet means maintaining a delicate balance: As much as you don't want to look like you neglect such things, you also don't want to [...]

For clothing, it's relatively simple: You wear what the situation dictates. Which means no tuxes at the beach, no collarless shirts at the golf club, and--unless you happen to drive [...]

The attention you give your face doesn't depend on how often you're in the sun or the kind of free radicals you're exposed to. Well, it should, but it doesn't. [...]

Despite most people's assumption, your hairstyle should be a direct reflection of your lifestyle--not the number of candles on your birthday cake. So if you picked your own clothes this [...]

Winter is a time for many things--playoff football, shoveling snow, your dad's unfortunate turtlenecks. It's also the perfect time to grow a beard. It's the year's weekend. A time when [...]

For the fourth year in a row, out of the goodness of my heart (and the demands of my contract), I tested hundreds of new grooming products. Whether they moisturize, [...]

Personal space is a space too often ignored by men. It contains you and, if you're lucky, another person of your choosing. Thus it should be welcoming and, occasionally fragrant. [...]

There are plenty of reasons to grow a beard. Maybe your face gets chapped. Maybe you need to show solidarity with your offensive line. Maybe you want to be president [...]

No other professional gives you as much control over his work as the guy who cuts your hair. You couldn't convince a doctor to remove your pancreas, but a barber? [...]

Nobody likes to shave every day. It's time-consuming and irritating, but it's what men do. At least the ones without beards. And the ones who haven't embraced the Age o [...]

THE AVERAGE MAN loses more than a billion dead skin cells per day, and while there's no biological imperative to scrub them off your body, there is an aesthetic one: [...]

IT USED TO BE that men had soap and water and that was just about it. But to be a man today is to hear about hundreds of new products [...]

DON'T CUT YOUR CUTICLE, that thin layer of skin that grows over the base of each nail. It's not sanitary, and it's not safe. Push it back after you shower, [...]

YOUR TUNA-SALAD SANDWICH doesn't care if you're not in a position to brush your teeth. It's still going to ruin your breath and, if you don't do anything about it, [...]

BEST DESIGN Axis recently broke a decades-long, largely unspoken rule that electric shavers had to be as unfortunate looking as possible. The Air ($140; axisshavers. com) is small enough to [...]

THE JACKET: It used to be that real tennis players wore white. McEnroe. Connors--even Nastase--could mouth off to the chair and smash all the woodies they wanted, but they always [...]

Rufus is shirt designer April Singer's husband and apparently her muse. She named her label after him. His namesake shirts are nothing if not versatile: Their slim European cut suggests [...]