This week's wellness tips include eating more bitter foods, snacking on popcorn and embracing your inner grandma.

Typical household cleaners like hand sanitizer or wipes don't kill germs from norovirus. Here's what you can use instead.

Not lethal to microbes, but still a pretty efficient way to clean them off your hands. Soap labeled as antimicrobial does more damage to microbes than just whisking them away — it does actually ...

Doctors and editors share the best hand sanitizers to shop for based on alcohol percentage, ingredients and more.

In fact, Borwein warns that it's not even equally effective as an old-fashioned hand washing. "Soap and water is actually the best way to remove germs from the hands. Hand sanitizer is a good ...

Hand soap is a must have, especially during the winter cold and flu season. In recent years, foaming hand wash has gained popularity for its luxurious lather, pleasant scent, and foaming clean.

Like hand soap, dish soap does not kill bacteria, but it lifts them off surfaces so that they can be washed away by water. Phillips says that any soap will work well against washing away bacteria ...

Hand sanitizer isn't as effective as handwashing at preventing the spread of norovirus, doctors and the CDC warn.

It’s soap. This is faint praise for soap, but it’s hardly damning. If washing at the sink disinfects your hands, and soap facilitates that process, then great. And soap may even work in cases ...