Airborne contaminants, dirty toilet seats, mold, and mildew: Long before the coronavirus pandemic came around, the hygiene-focused among us knew public washrooms are grimy places. Drying hands is an ...

Airborne contaminants, dirty toilet seats, mould and mildew: long before the coronavirus pandemic came around, the hygiene-focused among us knew public washrooms are grimy places. Drying hands is an ...

CBS Local --A new study has found a dirty little secret about hand dryers found in many public restrooms. Researchers say the machines which are designed to blow hot air on you are actually sucking up ...

Remember when there were reports of a TikTok trend warning against using hand dryers in public restrooms on hair, and even your own hands? Well, one company is disputing those claims. Excel Dryer, who ...

But, did you know using a hand dryer afterwards could undo all that hard work — propelling poo particles throughout an entire building? Hot-air dryers can suck up nasty germs left lurking in the ...

Use this item in public restrooms, and you'll risk contaminating yourself. Find out why. Hot-air hand dryers may be spewing other folks’ bacteria onto your freshly washed hands. A study published ...

They’re often portrayed as cleaner alternatives to hand-towels, but it seems that jet-air hand dryers may actually not be as clean as you think. A new study has revealed that jet-air hand dryers ...

Of all the potential grossness one could encounter in a public bathroom, you might assume the hand dryer is a relative safe zone. You would be wrong. A new study published in the journal Applied and ...

Want to hear something gross? Well, the news may come from your public restroom. No, it’s not the toilet seats or the countertops where people wash their hands but try looking at the contactless hand ...

Every flush of an uncovered toilet sends fecal matter flying into the air, science tells us, a phenomenon known as "toilet plume." That makes hand washing in shared restrooms particularly important, ...