Beards are divisive: Some women can’t get enough of them, while others are repelled by the mere sight of them. It seems that the primary concern is whether or not beards are sanitary, and there’s some truth to the belief that they harbor germs and bacteria?in fact, a recent study in New Mexico found traces of enteric bacteria, usually found in feces, in “randomly sampled” beards. Nice. However, a more recent study conducted in an American hospital reached a different conclusion. Researchers swabbed the faces of 408 hospital staffers, with and without facial hair, and found that it was the ...
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