Hygiene refers to practices associated with ensuring good health and cleanliness. Personal hygiene is the first step to good grooming and good health. Good hygienic habits are easy to begin and maintain. Starting with a few of these ideas will help you start on your way to developing good hygiene.
Hair Care
It’s so important to keep your hair clean and conditioned to ensure it stays healthy and strong. However, if you wash it too frequently, your hair will become brittle and dry, making it difficult to grow and keep strong. Washing your hair too frequently also strips it of necessary nutrients required to keep it strong and healthy. If you wash it too infrequently, it will become greasy and will also stunt its growth.
Conditioning your hair is critical to keeping the nutrients within your hair intact.
Getting your hair cut frequently is critical to healthy hair. The longer you wait to get your hair cut, the frailer and brittle your hair can become, especially if it is longer.
If you are male, or a female with a very short hairstyle, getting your hair cut every six weeks is best in order to keep it trim and neat, while keeping it healthy as well. If you have longer hair, you can go as long as 10 weeks without a haircut, but try to get your hair cut at least every 10 weeks.
Body hair in new places is something you can count on — again, it's hormones in action. You may want to start shaving some places where body hair grows,
Dental Care
The mouth is the area of the body most prone to collecting harmful bacteria and generating infections. In order to have and maintain good oral hygiene, it is critical to visit your dentist at least every six months. In some cases, your dentist may recommend every four months, depending on how much tartar builds up on your teeth and how often you need to have it removed.
For best results, invest in an electric toothbrush. Crest and Oral B both make excellent electric toothbrushes designed to clean your teeth and gums. Regardless of the type of toothbrush you use, make sure you brush your teeth at least two times per day, if not after every meal.
In addition to regular brushing, it is critical to floss your teeth at least once a day, usually before you go to bed. This will enable you to reduce plaque in the more difficult to reach places—between teeth and at the back of your molars.
ETIQUETTE/MANNERS
Good manners aren't natural and have to be learnt. In today's society, you see disrespectful acts on television, in movies and in your everyday life.
What is the significance behind certain gestures?
Raising a Toast
Toast and clinking of glasses together, was originally done so that when the glasses clinked, the drinks sloshed together on impact. This meant that whatever was in one drink passed into both glasses. So if someone is planning to drug a friend, he too would get some.
The Story Behind the Handshake
An empty hand presented forward to another person, and receiving the same response, was the easiest and most recognizable way to show someone that people weren’t holding a weapon. Therefore, a handshake meant they were going to talk instead of fight.
Let’s Salute
If a knight, in a full armour suit wanted to talk with a friend, he would have to remove the barrier i.e. lift his visor. His hand, thus, ended up at his forehead to lift the visor. A salute indicated lifting the helmet visor, so that the knight could talk instead of fight.
Yawning? Cover Your Mouth!
This has two logics to it. On a religious level if you yawned, with your mouth wide open, the Devil could reach right in and yank out your soul. Secondly, in the Middle Ages bathing was considered unhealthy, so most of the peasants and nobility stank badly. So it seemed logical to cover one’s mouth while yawning.
Keep Your Elbows Off The Table!
Why is it rude? First thing to bear in mind is that back in the old days people sat down to dinner, squeezed, into a long table that was set into a row. This meant that each person was packed very tightly in between the people on either side of him, and simply didn’t have much room to eat. The elbows weren’t allowed on the table because if someone had their elbows on the table, the other couldn’t eat.
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