AOMORI--A government project is under way to keep afloat the Japanese tradition of mixed-gender bathing, which is becoming less common due to an increase in male bathers who show up only to ogle women ...

From river rinses to oil-and-strigil scrapes, ancient grooming mixed health, ritual, and social life into daily survival. in ...

Forest bathing emerged in Japan in the 1980s as a physiological and psychological exercise called shinrin-yoku, meaning “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere.” Now this type of walking ...

In many parts of the world, cleansing one’s body has become an individual, daily ritual – a quick, steamy shower in the morning or a longer bath to unwind at night. But historically, our bathing ...

“Nature heals me with a mysterious power,” the photographer Yoshinori Mizutani recently wrote to me in an e-mail. Born in the countryside, surrounded by mountains, Mizutani told me that shinrin-yoku ...

Winter is a season that naturally asks for warmth, grounding, and a little more intentional care. Bathing, in many Indian ...

When Kate Bendal told her bushwalking husband that she was going to try forest bathing, he wondered if it involved swimming or nudity. Instead, it's more likely to include moving at a snail's pace and ...

On a sunny spring day, Ruth Nazarian led a group of 24 second graders to a small acacia grove at their San Diego elementary school. When the children were seated with their eyes closed, Nazarian asked ...

Bathings Solutions is a U.K.-based manufacturer of walk-in tubs. It offers designs for consumers who need powered seating, lie-down options, compact tubs or bariatric tubs. Consumers can customize ...

Although it technically is considered custodial care and not directly paid by Medicare, bathing is a critical part of the overall care long-term care residents receive and expect. To some individuals’ ...

Bathing does not prevent someone from contracting an STD or STI, but after touching your partner’s genitals, you should still wash before touching your mouth, genitals, or eyes, to prevent the spread ...

Most babies do fine with one or two baths a week for the first year. You can bathe them more often, but consider skipping the soap to avoid drying out their skin. Few things are more nerve-wracking ...