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Periods, Ideas and Innovation With Miki Agrawal, Founder of THINX

Meet Miki Agrawal, Founder of THINX

Originally Posted On thegoodtrade.com On June 12, 2021

I was initially skeptical of the “period panties” brand that was breaking the internet with its taboo-shattering ads. But I had a chance to hear THINX founder, Miki Agrawal, share her vision for the company at a conference in LA a few weeks ago. I immediately ordered a pair for myself and I’ve been converted. I can’t get enough of this brand or their products.

THINX messaging is liberating, their is technology a game-changer (named one of Time’s Best Inventions of 2015), and their give-back mission is changing the lives of girls around the world.

Last week Miki and I had a chance to catch up and I was able to hear more about her inspiration for THINX and what she’s up to next with her two new brands, Icon and Tushy. This woman totally mesmerized me with her vision to disrupt industries, shatter taboos and transform lives around the world.

THINX IS MAKING “THAT TIME OF MONTH” MORE BEARABLE FOR WOMEN EVERYWHERE, BUT YOUR MISSION IS ALSO TO BREAKING THE TABOO SURROUNDING MENSTRUATION. WHAT CAME FIRST? DID YOU JUST WAKE UP WANTING TO SHATTER TABOOS OR MAKE THIS PART OF LIFE MORE COMFORTABLE FOR HALF THE POPULATION?

As women, our periods are still interrupting our days. We have learned to stay silent and to cope, but it is absolutely crazy that in this day of innovation, the industry has not evolved in over 50 years. With THINX, we did not want to just create a product that works for women, we also wanted to break the taboo that has caused the stunting of the industry.

YOU RECEIVED A LOT OF CONTROVERSY EARLY ON ABOUT YOUR SUBWAY ADS IN NEW YORK. WHY DO YOU THINK YOU RECEIVED SUCH PUSHBACK?

The word ‘taboo’ comes from the Polynesian word tapua, which literally means ‘menstruation,’ inferring that most uncomfortable thing could you talk about is a woman’s period. This has caused the stunting of an entire industry and more than that, it is disrupting lives around the world. Over 100 million girls in the developing world fall behind in school because of their periods, forcing many of them to eventually drop out. When we began to examine the gender inequality issues girls face because of their periods, we wanted to double down on these issues.

HOW IS THINX WORKING TO ALLEVIATE GENDER INEQUALITIES IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD THROUGH YOUR GIVE BACK MODEL?

Rather than giving out menstrual supplies for free through a welfare model that could cause dependence on aid or cannibalize local economies, we invest in for-profit companies in the developing world that train women to make and sell washable pads. This allows women to purchase menstrual products at subsidized prices and stay in school during their periods. For each pair of THINX underwear sold, a portion of proceeds is invested in these social enterprises. We’ve helped one organization scale from 25 employees to 165 and we are constantly looking for ways to innovate to help empower women. We are planning to launch a THINX Global Girls Clubs where we teach girls about their bodies and their menstrual cycles, as well as safety skills and learning how to say no to men. We also want to teach entrepreneurship and partner with women to fund their ideas.

WE HAVE STRONG BASE OF MALE READERS AT THE GOOD TRADE. I’M CURIOUS WHAT YOU’D TELL MEN ABOUT THINX?

At THINX, we want to invite men be a part of the conversation and to support women during their periods. The womb holds humanity and is worth of honor and respect. I would encourage men to serve women during their periods and make it as comfortable as possible for them.

TELL ME ABOUT ICON — YOUR NEW UNDERWEAR LINE FOR WOMEN.

Nearly 1 in 3 women experience light bladder leakage. Like menstruation, this area has seen little to no innovation for decades. And there seems to be a lot of embarrassment and taboo around this issue as well; it takes an average of 6 to 7 years before a woman even admits to her doctor that she is experiencing incontinence. Women are having to quietly deal with this, feeling un-womanly, un-sexy and out of control.

Icon’s bikini and hi-waisted underwear can hold up to 15 ml of liquid. Like THINX, Icon underwear is absorbent, leak-resistant, fast drying, and makes women feel sexy again. For every pair of Icon sold, we are funding fistula surgeries in the developing world. Fistulas affect one million mothers in the developing world who too often give birth without access to medical care, leaving them severely incontinent unless they receive a life-changing procedure.

SO… WIPE OR WASH? TELL ME ABOUT TUSHY. :)

America’s toilet culture has gone basically unchanged since 1980. It’s no wonder women constantly suffer from urinary tract infections and yeast infections. Wiping our butts with paper isn’t exactly the most sanitary thing. Beyond the sanitary concerns, a single roll of toilet paper requires 37 gallons of water to create. The average American uses 57 sheets of toilet paper a day, that’s the equivalent of Central Park being cut down every single day.

Tushy is a bidet attachment that clips on and requires no plumbing, and any idiot can install it. It is the most game changing thing you can do to have a simple, gentle spray of water clean up after you. Like THINX and Icon, we want to use Tushy to affect people’s lives for the better in the developing world where over a billion people practice open defecation. Tushy partners with Samagra House to bring latrines to communities without that need them, employ people in the community to clean and manage the latrines and educate people on their importance.

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16 Nifty Sanitization Things to Make Everything in Your Life Less Gross

Get your clean on with these sanitization products that will de-grossify everything from your phone to the air!

Originally Posted On eonline.com By Von Carly Milne, Emily Spain On Feb 07, 2021

We independently selected these products because we love them, and we hope you do too. Shop with E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a commission if you purchase something through our links. Items are sold by the retailer, not E!.

Guck. Grime. Germs. Ew! Even if you’re not phobic about such things, it helps to do a deep clean every once in a while and get your stuff (or your home) in spotless shape.

But sometimes you’re not sure where to start, or you’re not sure what else exists beyond bleach to help you get your life de-gunked. Fret not! We scoped out some interesting, fascinating and downright magical goodies that will help you sanitize your world and make it more livable. For example? You’ll definitely want something to sanitize your phone, which is a known germ farm. There’s some cool kitchen goodies that can clean and deodorize. And if you really want to go hardcore, you can purify the air and eliminate the germs floating around your home. (Again we say: ew!)

Our favorite? The TUSHY Spa 3.0 bidet attachment for your toilet that has over 7,500 5-star reviews!

So grab some of the goodies below and join us on a quest to rid the world of icky stuff. Because it’s never too early to start spring cleaning.

Cleanse My Sole Sanitizing Shoe Door Mat

Prevent the spread of dirt and germs before walking in the door! Just step on to the sponge mat, rub the soles of your shoes back and forth to clean and disinfect. Then the microfiber mat side will absorb any excess moisture on your shoes.

$40

Amazon

PhoneSoap Smartphone Sanitizer

Surely you know that your phone is a breeding ground for bacteria. Zap those germs before they infect your life, and charge your phone at the same time, with this awesome phone sanitizer. Just plunk it inside and plug it into the charger, close the lid, and let your peace of mind take over while ultra-violet light gets rid of all the ickies your phone picks up over the course of a day. And if you can’t wait for it to finish its decontamination process, the sanitizer features an amplifier so you can listen to music while it de-grossifies. Also? It made the cut on Shark Tank! Now you can buy one and get another for 50% off.

$80

PhoneSoap

Plink Garbage Disposer Cleaner and Deodorizer

It’s unsurprising garbage disposals are gross, given what we put them through. But what is surprising is how easy they are to clean when you use Plink. Just drop one of these magic pearls into your disposal, and its fizzy enzymatic formula will not only clean your drain, deodorize it and remove foul odors, but it’ll also make your kitchen smell yummy thanks to a tart lemon scent. Plus, it’s biodegradable and doesn’t contain phosphates.

$11

Amazon

Larq Self-Cleaning Water Bottle

Yes, you read that right: this water bottle cleans itself! How? The bottle activates every two hours to bask the water and inner surface of the bottle in purifying UV-C LED light, which eliminates up to 99.9999% of bio-contaminants. That means your water bottle remains stink-free, germ free, and odor-causing bacteria free. And you don’t need replacement filters or batteries to keep it that way! One charge via USB lasts from one to two months.

$95

Revolve

$95

Neiman Marcus

Vie Oli UV-C Sanitizing Toothbrush Holder

We’re all guilty of leaving our bathroom counters a mess which means our toothbrushes are often exposed to all kinds of stuff! However, this nifty toothbrush holder is designed to disinfect your toothbrush from 99.9% of bacteria.

$20

Anthropologie

Bottle Bright Natural Cleaning Tablets

But if you prefer the analog format of water bottle, or you’re just forgetful about cleaning ’em, then you’re definitely going to need these. In addition to being biodegradable, chlorine free and environmentally safe, they’ll remove stubborn stains and odors with ease. Just fill your bottle with hot water, drop in a tablet, let it fizz for 15 to 30 minutes, then pour it out. And voila! You have a spotless, non-grody drinking vessel for your favorite beverage.

$8

Amazon

Ultrasonic Jewelry Cleaner

Even if you’re not wearing your finest gems while you’re working up a sweat at the gym, just the usual daily wear infused them with the grit and grime of day to day life. Zap the junk off your jewelry, watches, and even your eyeglasses with this jewelry cleaner, which uses tap water and 42,000 Hz of ultrasonic sound waves to get rid of any gunk that may be living in or on your baubles and trinkets. There’s an internal basket that keeps your goodies safe, and five preset cleaning cycles with an auto shut off in case you forget about them.

$45

Amazon

Skonyon UV Lighter Sanitizer Mini Handheld Sanitizer Travel Wand UV Light

You can use this magical wand to kill 99.9% of bacteria in your home, car, workplace and more. Plus, it easily folds up and is travel-friendly!

$20

Walmart

Drill Brush Attachment Set

Get down to the nitty gritty with this brush set, which easily attaches to your power drill to give you the scrubbing power you never knew you wanted, but definitely needed. There’s an attachment that will work for everything, from scrubbing your bathroom floor, everything in the kitchen, even your car, carpet and upholstery. Scour large surfaces, hard to reach spots, and everything in between thanks to a variety of attachments that make it easy to scrub away pretty much anything that may be tipping off your inner clean freak. Your home will be hospital-level clean in no time.

$9

Amazon

Seventh Generation Toilet Bowl Cleaner

Your bathroom might only be bested by your phone for being a germ factory, especially when it comes to the toilet. But what do you do when you want to get it ridiculously clean without harming the environment? This toilet bowl cleaner from Seventh Generation is the answer. Not only does it tackle stubborn stains, but it leaves your bowl (and surrounding area) spotless without using chlorine, synthetic fragrances, dyes or ammonia. You also might want to think about….

$27

$24

Amazon

Tushy Spa 3.0

Okay, hear us out on this one. We know that the concept of a bidet squicks a lot of people out, but you’ll be missing out on one of the great joys in life: a spotless tushy, no matter what kind of bathroom shenanigans you may have endured. And the good news is, you don’t have to buy an entirely new unit for your bathroom to experience this joy. The Tushy Spa easily attaches to your existing toilet system, dousing your butt in cool or warm water (you’ll need the unit to be close to your tap to get the warm). There’s pressure and targeting controls to ensure you get clean where you want, and the nozzle is self-cleaning. Trust us. You’ll thank us later.

$149

$119

Tushy

PetSafe ScoopFree Automatic Self-Cleaning Cat Litter Box

And while we’re on the subject, have you ever thought about your cat’s litter box situation? Let’s face it: it’s not pleasant for either of you, but this little gadget may change that. It’s a litter box that scoops away the dirty business your cat leaves behind, and stashes it into a disposable tray that helps eliminate odors. Once the tray is full, toss it, replace it, and then lather, rinse, repeat. You won’t have to scoop, your cat won’t have to dodge its own presents as it waits for you to scoop, your home will never smell of used litter, and all that adds up to a more sanitary experience for all.

$140

Amazon

Buncha Farmers Stain Remover Stick

Swipe a little of this on any stains you might be struggling with, and you’ll think there’s some kind of magic going on. Because how on earth could a biodegradable, environmentally-friendly product remove stains ranging from grass to grease, including red wine, ketchup, ink, blood and more… and do all that with minimal effort? You won’t know until you try it, so give it a shot and see the magic for yourself.

$5

Amazon

Germ Guardian True HEPA Filter Air Purifier

Yeah, dusting will do a little bit of good, but when you really want to wipe the junk out of your home, go for a solid air purifier. This one reduces harmful germs, dust, pollen, pet dander, mold spores, and other allergens as small as .3 microns from the air. Plus, it reduces 99.7% of harmful germs thanks to UV C light, which helps kill airborne viruses including influenza, staph and rhinovirus, and works with Titanium Dioxide to reduce volatile organic compounds. Yes please. Also? It was one of our Amazon best sellers from 2019.

$85

Amazon

Dr. Bronner’s Organic Peppermint Hand Sanitizer

Love hand sanitizers, but hate the way they feel like they’re stripping the skin off your hands? Then you want this spray from Dr. Bronner. It’s chemical-free but still insanely effective, thanks to the antiseptic properties of organic ethyl alcohol and glycerin. And though it comes in several scents, we love the peppermint for a little aromatherapy kick that will brighten your day. Just spray it on your hands, rub them together, and you’re good to go!

$4

Thrive Market

UV-Clean Portable Sanitizer Bag

Need something to sanitize on the go! This sanitizing bag eliminates 99.9% of bacteria from the surface of personal items in just one minute.

$100

Anthropologie

For more must-have items you didn’t know you needed in your life, check out 10 Things to Help Rest Your Eyes From Too Much Screen Time!

Tushy is a bidet startup which aims to replace toilet paper, Tushy was founded by Miki Agrawal.

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THINX & Tushy Founder Miki Agrawal Isn't Afraid to Disrupt the Status Quo—Here's Her Business Philosophy

Originally Posted On parade.com By BECKY HUGHES On April 11, 2019

If you don’t yet know Miki Agrawal by name, you surely know her work. The self-described “SHE-E-O” behind wildly successful industry-disrupting startups like period-proof underwear company THINX and portable bidet company Tushy has never been afraid to question the status quo.

Agrawal wants more people—and more women, in particular—to start challenging the systems that might not actually work in our favor. That’s the subject of her latest book, Disrupt-Her: A Manifesto for the Modern Woman, a call to reexamine 13 major areas of our lives to determine whether they’re really serving us.

Parade.com sat down with Agrawal to talk about how she found success, what it takes to disrupt industries on a deep level and how she avoids burnout.

Disrupt-Her asks women to think about how they can approach 13 areas of their life in a disruptive way. What has disruption meant to you in terms of your business experience?

I’ve spent the last 15 years of my entrepreneurial career looking at categories that haven’t had any disruption in a really long time, maybe because they’re taboo. When you can’t talk about something, it’s really hard to innovate in them because no one’s talking about it, right? I received so much pushback from society, just saying that the conversations I want to be having are uncouth. And it turns out society was really wrong.

People are interested in trying new things, people do want to see if there are other options out there that are better for our health, hygiene, planet, for our pocketbooks—for all of that. I think people are really interested in seeing if there are better options. Having built my businesses to very successful numbers, it just proves that people are ready to have the conversations. It’s made me think, What are the other things that need to be disrupted in our society? What are the other things we need to be talking about? And it turns out that we’re not talking about a lot of things.

Did you set out to disrupt industries, or did you just have great ideas that happened to be disruptive?

It always starts with necessities. Necessity is the mother of invention. When it came to my needs, I couldn’t find any good option for myself in the categories of pizza, periods, pee and poop—all these categories that we think about often! It sparked an opportunity.

How do you start to open people up to having conversations about things that are considered taboo?

I have a thesis around how to shift culture and have the conversations that people aren’t talking about. The first prong is it has to be a best-in-class, one-of-one innovation. It has to be something that people would actually want to have, want to wear or want to use in their homes. It also starts with asking yourself, “Would I actually use this product?”

And then the second prong is considered, artful design across every touchpoint of your brand, which means that we need to really think about everything that we’re putting out, whether it’s our website, our packaging, the product itself, the little tag on our product, our Facebook ads, our subway campaigns. We all have to consider the aesthetic and the artfulness of it.

And then the last one is accessible, relatable language across every touchpoint of your brand. Whenever people introduce a new innovative product or a new culture-shifting idea, they’re often too academic or too clinical or too technical or too prescriptive with their language and it just makes people be like, “Huh? I don’t know what you’re talking about.” The way we think about and talk about all our products is just like we’re texting our best friend. If you think about the way you text your friends about something, it’s very different from the way you write ad copy. That’s the most authentic, that’s the most real. We’ve found that the more human we are, the more people will say, “Oh, I can relate to that. I feel like you’re talking to me.”

What kind of advice do you have for other entrepreneurial women?

Just keep putting one foot in front of the other. There’s no silver bullet that’s going to solve everything. You just have to keep chipping away at the thing you want to create. Just be as creative and weird and out there as possible, because the more weird you are, the more you’ll stand out. The more interesting, creative things you can put out, the better. I’m always telling everyone to do the weirdest thing they can do, that’s not just one of many but that’s one of one.

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve done to promote your own businesses?

The first time I was launching my first restaurant, I had no experience, I had no contacts, I had no money, I had no ability to pay any PR person, so I just did it all with myself and my friends. We basically put together this weird nondescript box—I went to this corner store and bought 25 or 50 brown paper boxes that cost 25 cents each, and then I had my friend’s dad send me 50 IV bags that you find in a hospital. My first restaurant was originally called Slice, it’s now called Wild, and its original tagline was “the perfect food.”

And so we put the little IV bag in the boxes and we put a little note that said, “The perfect food will be arriving shortly. Until then, don’t eat anything.” And then on the IV bag, we had a little sticker that we wrote on top, “Should the lack of substance prove to be debilitating, please insert tube into vein.” And then below that, there was this invitation to our grand opening of my tiny little pizza shop. Everybody came, we had a line out the door—that proved to me that doing weird things is really, really important.

One thing I know is that when you allow someone to participate in something, they feel like they’re part of the thing, which means that they now need to complete the thing that they’re a part of—which means they show up and see what happens.

Our newest thing that we’re doing for TUSHY is a Funeral for a Tree in New York City on April 25. Over 15 billion trees are decimated every year, 100 million of which are used for disposable paper products (like paper bags and toilet paper). We’re going to pay our respects to these magical living beings that keep all of us alive and celebrate a tree’s life cut down too soon.

There’s a lot of talk about burnout these days. How do you keep from getting burned out when you have so much going on?

I just don’t find work to be work, necessarily. I find it to be like these fun projects that are living and breathing, and there’s nothing to burn out from.

I work in spurts, and I work hard in those spurts, and then I also have an amazing team around me for all my projects where I feel like I can really just hand them the reins and give myself the space to be creative and to really think about the greater plan for the business and for the campaigns and the creatives and the inventions that we’re working on. That’s where I really thrive and want to be, and I’ve sort of created that space for my teams. I get to really focus on what I do best, so I don’t think I’m at all in a place of burnout because I’ve created the environment where everyone’s thriving in their respective department.

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Why Thinx Is One Of The Most Innovative Companies Of 2017

Thinx CEO Miki Agrawal has turned periods into exclamation points.

Originally Posted On fastcompany.com By FAST COMPANY STAFF On Feb 13, 2017

Thinx CEO Miki Agrawal runs her brands with the glee of an outlaw. [PHOTO:

SAMANTHA CASOLARI]

“I really believe we can change culture,” says Thinx cofounder and CEO Miki Agrawal. That may seem like a lot to ask of a line of stylish underwear designed to prevent menstrual leaks, but Agrawal brings the wit and provocation of a performance artist to marketing products that have historically been associated with shame—and she’s catalyzed a movement along the way.

Agrawal first grabbed everyone’s attention with a New York subway ad campaign featuring a series of refined, innuendo-filled images of peeled grapefruit and runny eggs. Last September, in lieu of a traditional New York Fashion Week runway show, she staged an event where models in Thinx (including a trans man in the company’s boy shorts) delivered monologues about oppression.

As Thinx expands (it reached tens of millions of dollars in revenue in 2016), Agrawal brings the same approach—a mixture of high-tech merchandise, considered design, and a rule-breaking philosophy—to new efforts. Last year, she introduced Icon, a brand of incontinence underwear, and Tushy, a bidet attachment, along with six different styles of Thinx underwear. The company is now creating a line of reusable tampon applicators and athletic clothes that incorporate its moisture-wicking technology.

This article is part of our coverage of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2017.

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Bidet Maker TUSHY Announces New Dating App For Poop-Loving People

Originally Posted On dailycaller.com By Lauryn Overhultz On Oct 02, 2020

Bidet maker TUSHY is working to launch a dating app for “fecal aficionados.”

The dating app is expected to work similarly to Bumble and Tinder, according to a press release obtained Friday by the Daily Caller. Founder Miki Agrawal explained users will be able to “upload specifics about their bowel movements, bathroom habits and specifics in regards to their butt/gut health.”

“The demand for human connection has never been higher,” Agrawal said in a press release. “This period of social isolation has made things more difficult for single people to meet and connect with like-minded individuals. In turn, niche dating apps have risen in popularity.” (RELATED: New Dating App Only Matches People That Fall Into A 20-Year Age Gap)

“We’ve seen dating apps for Tesla owners, sea captains, bacon lovers and more pop up recently,” he continued. “Considering how many people are now working from home because of the pandemic — and how much time they are spending in their bathrooms — we figured it would be a good time to announce ‘Cheek2Cheek,’ a dating app for fecal aficionados.”

This is wild. Everyone has their own preferences I guess though. There have been some other niche dating apps pop up during quarantine including one for people who are at least at a 20 year age gap. We live in such a weird time.

The founder of the “Cheek2Cheek” app is even offering to pay $20,000 towards any couple’s wedding as long as they met on the app when it launches. What a deal.

Tushy is a bidet startup which aims to replace toilet paper, Tushy was founded by Miki Agrawal.

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Miki Agrawal Instagram

Originally published on Instagram by Miki Agrawal.

“What if we believed that it could just keep getting better and better…forever?” In moments where things are going really well, I’ll often share this saying with my friends. When I entertain the belief that it will just keep getting better and better, I’m transported into a state of hopefulness. As Anais Nin said, “we don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.” When I’m hopeful, the world feels a little more hopeful too. Next time you find yourself in the midst of a peak life moment with some of your favorites, look them in the eyes… “What if we believed that it could just keep getting better and better…” h/t @samhornintrigue for sharing this saying with me so many years ago. Still one of my all time favorites.

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I Got a TUSHY Bidet and Everything Is Different Now

Originally Posted On hgtv.com By Jessica Yonker On Nov 04, 2020

I should have done it years ago. Bidets are common in countries all over the world and have been for centuries, but they’ve been slow to gain popularly in the United States. Until now. See how TUSHY's bidet seat attachment made me a believer and find out if it's right for you.

One summer, I became convinced my phone could hear my toilet flushing. It seemed like every other time I flushed before I could even make it back to the couch, I was served a Facebook ad for bamboo toilet paper, organic personal hygiene products or air freshener (rude).

And then one day I got an ad for a TUSHY bidet attachment. It boasted quick installation and required no plumbing or electricity — just attach it to your toilet, connect it to the water supply and go. And it was under $100. As a renter, this felt revolutionary. But as a person with an often fleeting attention span, I decided to put a pin in the idea, forgot about it and then three years passed.

TUSHY came rushing back into my life in late March, when most of the country was still under government-mandated lockdowns. I was genuinely out of toilet paper, and it was nowhere to be found. Not at the grocery store, not online — I even tried hunting for it at the hardware store. No luck. And then it hit me that I should finally just get a bidet attachment. But I wasn't the only one with the idea — people clogged up TUSHY's website with orders and searches for bidets were on the rise.

Previously, I had always thought bidets were high-end, luxury features reserved for HGTV Smart Home master bathrooms and friends who had studied abroad in college. Maybe you thought the same thing. Modern bidets often are separate bowls that sit next to a toilet, requiring separate plumbing. They look like very low sinks — some have faucet handles with a nozzle above or just inside the toilet bowl, while others have handheld hoses. The end goal is the same: to make the user feel cleaner after using the bathroom. Instead of going through several rounds of toilet paper and flushable wipes, simply squat over the bidet for a cleansing stream of water.

You can find bidets in public bathrooms in Europe, Latin America and Japan. Though you might not see a bidet here in the U.S. at your favorite restaurant, they’re more common than you would think. Bidets are also environmentally-friendly — according to Business Insider, it takes 37 gallons of water to make a single roll of toilet paper while a bidet might only use around one-eighth of a gallon. And you don’t have to fork over thousands or completely remodel your bathroom to get one installed. Many companies, like TUSHY, make affordable bidet attachments that connect directly to the toilet seat that you can order online or pick up at your local hardware store.

TUSHY recommends sending a photo of your toilet and water connection before ordering. They’re quick to respond – I sent off the photo below on a Sunday evening and by the next afternoon I received confirmation the TUSHY Classic would work with my toilet.

If you’re considering the TUSHY Spa, the upgraded model with temperature control settings that let you use both cool and warm water, know that it needs access to the hot water connection from your sink. My bathroom vanity is directly attached to the wall, housing the hot water connection in the cabinetry, so the TUSHY Spa wasn’t an option for me.

The TUSHY Classic comes in simple packaging, and comes with a flexible steel hose, reinforced plastic adapter (essentially a splitter for your water connection), rubber pads for the toilet seat, an extra nozzle cap and Teflon tape (a material that helps with sealing the pipe connection and prevents leaks). The instructions have a visual guide for every step of the installation process. The only thing you need that doesn’t come in the box is a flathead screwdriver. (Confession: I didn’t feel like digging through tools and used a butter knife.)

Installation was simple enough. I turned off the water and emptied the toilet tank before removing the toilet seat. Then I disconnected my existing flexible hose from the toilet and connected it to the bottom of the mega adapter – this piece works as a splitter so your water supply can connect to TUSHY. Then I connected TUSHY to the adapter with the flexible hose that came in the box.

They say this over and over again in the instructions, but make sure not to over-tighten the screws or you could damage the threads, causing leaks. I seemed to have a tight seal, so I didn’t end up using the Teflon tape – though I didn’t really have any choice, because I accidentally destroyed the Teflon tape trying to unravel it. I should have watched TUSHY’s YouTube video on how to use it, but too proudly assumed I could figure it out. It was embarrassing. Let’s move on.

Installing the TUSHY and reattaching the toilet seat was the only part that got a little testy. I should have asked my roommate for help to make sure it was aligned and staying in place, because it accidentally shifted and I had to unscrew and start over. Even with that blunder, it only took me about 35 minutes from start to finish to install it.

The knob on TUSHY Classic has two functions. Turn the knob to the “Bum Wash” to adjust the pressure to clean yourself. Remember to turn the knob slowly — it packs a surprising amount of power, so there's no need to crank it up to full blast or you'll get splashed or you might experience ... some discomfort. Just trust me on this. Turn the knob the other direction to clean the nozzle. TUSHY Classic also features a lever that adjusts the angle of the nozzle.

It may take a few tries to find the perfect positioning for you. It felt a bit silly at first because I was basically having to retrain myself how to sit on the toilet. My toilet seat is plastic and isn’t heavy at all, causing it and TUSHY to slide occasionally, but usually isn’t too bad as long as I’m careful to adjust the seat before I sit down. The cold water also took some getting used to, especially first thing in the morning when I was still half asleep – if you’re a cold shower person, you’ll probably love it.

It's been 7 months since I started using the TUSHY. At first, I found it hard to put into words how much easier it made things … until I visited my parents for two weeks over the summer. Going back to regular old TP was, to be completely honest, terrible. I never felt as clean, and I even missed the cold water.

TUSHY is truly a game-changer. TUSHY reeled me in with their witty marketing (they have potty mouths) and kept me interested with their low price point and ease of installation. I truly regret not buying it sooner. If you’re on the fence, I think you’ll find it a worthwhile investment. I plan on buying one for my parents’ house and have converted several of my friends. Will you join us?

Buy ItTUSHY Classic $79TUSHY

Note: I won’t be taking any questions or criticisms about taking my phone into the bathroom in the first place. It is what it is.Tushy is a bidet startup which aims to replace toilet paper, Tushy was founded by Miki Agrawal.

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A Bidet Company Will Pay Someone $10,000 To Study Their Shitting Habits For 3 Months

Originally Posted On barstoolsports.com By Nate On June 24, 2020

A New York-based bidet brand is offering to pay someone $10,000 to study their pooping habits over the summer.

The official “doodies” of Tushy’s “VP of Fecal Matters” will be to document their diet and bowel movements daily for three months and describe their experiences on the brand’s social media accounts.

“All you have to do is poop everyday for three months and record what you’re doing,” Tushy founder Miki Agrawal told The Post on Tuesday.

With millions of people out of a job due to the coronavirus pandemic, Agrawal said she wanted to offer a gig than anyone can do, since, “anybody can poop.”

There’s a few things going on here. First of all, a great job, let’s just get that out of the way. Any time you can get paid to do something you already do, you have won. Obviously at the very top of that list, of the Mount Rushmore of jobs you can have that you would do anyway, is golfing. Professional golfers are guys who would golf anyway, they just get paid a shit ton to do it instead of vice versa. That’s the number 1 job in the world. It’s better than baseball player because of how much more relaxed it is. You aren’t on the road half of the year. You aren’t taking red-eye flights from Oakland to Detroit. You pretty much get to make your own schedule and play the best courses in the most beautiful locations in the world. Nothing beats that.

Being paid to poop ain’t too shabby either though. We all poop. We all talk about our poop. So why not cash a paycheck and get your b-hole tickled in the process? Talk about a win-win-win. Starbucks, shit, ass tickle, repeat. And all you have to do is tell them about it? Who wouldn’t want this job?

And by the way, why do we poop-shame so hard still? Can we normalize pooping? We all do it. Well besides chicks. Everyone knows girls don’t poop, don’t be ridiculous. But there should be no shame in the poop game. Be proud of your creation after that 3rd cup of office coffee. Marvel in what you have produced. Let’s put an end to poop shaming at once. But remember to spray the aerosol after. It’s all about respect, after all. Namaste.

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It’s time to end our love affair with toilet roll. What’s wrong with a bidet?

Originally Posted On euronews.com By Rosie Frost On April 04, 2020

Every year nearly €75 billion worth of toilet paper is bought around the world. According to Statista, that’s around 8kg per person. Understandably, it is an essential item on most people’s shopping lists, but some countries use a lot more than others. Americans, for instance, go through an average of 57 sheets every day.

That’s a whole lot of paper. Used once, for obvious reasons, and then flushed away, it’s not something we are keen on recycling either making it pretty much the ultimate single-use item. Shortages in many parts of the world due to COVID-19 panic buying have had us all searching for potentially questionable alternatives, but should we be looking to ditch toilet roll altogether in the face of a different global crisis?

Wiping out our forests

Manufacturing sheets of this trusty bathroom staple has a devastating impact on the environment. A report from Greenpeace in 2017 discovered that logging linked to toilet paper had severely damaged Sweden’s Great Northern Forest. The National Resources Defense Council (NDRC) and Stand.earth also released a report more recently called “The Issue With Tissue”, in 2019, which explains how Canada’s boreal forests are being similarly destroyed by America’s desire for luxurious 3-ply.

The majority of these trees are hundreds of years old and cannot easily be replanted to restore the ecosystem. “Most Americans probably do not know that the toilet paper they flush away comes from ancient forests,” says Anthony Swift, director of the Canada project at NDRC. “Maintaining the Canadian boreal forest is vital to avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.”

Important biodiversity is under threat from ‘clear-cutting’, a process which removes nearly all of the trees from an area. This has a knock-on effect for the rest of the forest’s ecology leading to flooding, habitat loss and the death of plants and animals that use tree canopies as shelter. Indigenous communities who call the region home also face problems as the natural resources they rely on to live are depleted.

All for the purpose of keeping our backsides clean.

Negative perceptions of recycled rolls mean that we’re more likely to reach for products made from the virgin tree pulp sourced from these trees. Where other industries are looking to up their recycling initiatives, Ethical Consumer found that the world’s biggest suppliers of toilet paper were actually increasing the number of trees being chopped down in a search for softness. Their explanation? We just aren’t buying enough of the recycled stuff.

What’s the problem with recycled paper?

While conventional toilet paper wipes out trees at an astonishing rate, plenty of recycled options do exist out there. They can be made using both waste from other paper manufacturing processes but also from the junk mail, cardboard boxes and milk cartons that end up in our recycling bins.

The problem lies with the fact that recycled materials don’t seem to give us the same quality as the less environmentally friendly options. The long paper fibres needed to make paper in repeated contact with some, very delicate, parts of the human body luxuriously soft just don’t survive the recycling process. That just doesn’t cut in a market where comfort is the consumer’s main concern. Another worry is that post-consumer sources for recycled paper may contain BPA, a chemical that has been linked to a number of health problems.

A whole host of startups have emerged in the last few years seeking to solve the negative image of recycled brands. Companies like Who Gives a Crap and №2 are making rolls made from materials that they claim are more sustainable and marketing them as something to look good stacked on the back of your toilet. Subscription services like these hope to provide a more modern, convenient way of getting a hold of something to wipe with.

The crowdfunded brand, Who Gives a Crap, solves the problem of softness and sustainability by offering both recycled and bamboo versions of its paper. Bamboo is considered to be a relatively environmentally friendly source of paper fibres. The fast-growing grass regenerates from its own roots, doesn’t need fertilising, and produces 35 per cent more oxygen than tree equivalents.

Would you use a Bidet?

With stocks of the soft, white stuff running low, many people are discovering completely paper-free ways to keep themselves clean. Before you start reaching for the wet wipes, kitchen towels or even the medieval luxury of the goose neck (yes, that really happened), plain old water is always an option.

Bidets are a common bathroom fixture in some countries around the world and have been a mandatory addition for Italian toilets since 1975. Northern Europe seems to have fallen out of love with the washing our rear ends and asking an American what a bidet is, is likely to result in a quizzical look. But with the pandemic causing shelves to be cleared of hundreds of rolls, those already clued into this hygiene revolution are sitting pretty.

Miki Agrawal, founder of a toilet attachment brand popular with millennials, TUSHY, says that the current shortage could be the tipping point that gets people to finally ditch toilet paper altogether. “Since the late 1800s, we have been led to believe that toilet paper does the job, but all it does is cost us money every month (to the tune of billions of dollars per year if you add us all together), kills millions of trees per year and causes chronic infections and disease down there like UTIs, hemorrhoids and fissures.”

She explains that the company’s goal has always been to save the millions of trees worth of paper being flushed down the toilet every day. Weirdly, because the toilet paper manufacturing process is so water-intensive, switching to a bidet could reduce your water usage as well. Making a single roll of paper uses around 140 litres of water and most people go through one and a half rolls a week. Tushy claims that each use of their device requires less than half a litre, meaning you need just under 5 litres a week to keep you clean.

Our toilet habits are not something we often consider the environmental ramifications of, but as urgency makes us more open to unconventional options, paper made from virgin wood could take a back seat. Many of the sustainable subscription services are currently sold out and TUSHY has seen a tenfold increase in its projected sales for the year. Time will tell if, when the pandemic ends, people stick with sustainable alternatives for the sake of the trees.

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From Carole Baskin to Leslie Jordan, the Unlikely Stars of the Quarantine

A look at the people and products who captured our imaginations (and, in some cases, our hearts) during a strange moment in history

Originally Posted On lamag.com By Paul Schrodt On May 17, 2020

It’s hard to think of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact as anything other than a series of downturns: in global health, the economy, our cultural lifeblood, and moods. But as in any crisis, there are positives deserving praise. Dr. Anthony Fauci, unknown to many of us months ago, now has his own bobblehead — and deservedly so. But other experts and personalities — some with direct ties to the novel coronavirus, others who are delightful distractions — have captured our collective imagination. Here are 20.

Carole Baskin

Netflix’s zeitgeist-defining docuseries Tiger King is teeming with wilder-than-the-last characters, but one rises above the rest. Baskin — the 58-year-old former big-cat breeder turned conservationist and archrival/attempted murder victim of central subject Joe Exotic — sports an enviable feline-inspired wardrobe; coos her memed-around-the-world tagline, “Hey all you cool cats and kittens”; and prefers not to answer questions about her mysteriously missing ex-husband. A morally ambiguous figure for our uncertain times, she’s also sure to be one of Halloween’s most popular costumes — so stock up now on the fiercest tiger prints you can find.

Dua Lipa

The British singer, 24, didn’t want to release her second album, Future Nostalgia, into a pandemic — she announced its arrival with tears on social media. But its neo-disco bangers are exactly what a lockdown dance party demands, and the release is her first Top 10 LP in the U.S. She’s liberated the masses to move while (fabulously) self-quarantining with her model-celebrity-spawn boyfriend Anwar Hadid. But how hard is that?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAayNagnmHF/

Ryan Heffington

Heffington, 46, had already been motivating Angelenos to hone their hip shaking at his Silver Lake dance studio, the Sweat Spot, but the Grammy-nominated choreographer has turned his Joshua Tree house into a makeshift gym space. For his five-day-a-week Sweatfest cardio class on Instagram Live, he coaches around 8,000 viewers at a time through unique moves. Fans are known to end sessions with a cathartic cry.

D-Nice

Born Derrick Jones, D-Nice had a moment as a hip-hop artist in the ’90s that quickly faded. But the 49-year-old DJ reached newfound fame streaming his live Club Quarantine sets from his downtown L.A. apartment, drawing hundreds of thousands of stay-at-home revelers, including Rihanna, Oprah Winfrey, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Michelle Obama. The funk-and-soul-heavy playlists are more than a sonic escape — they’re an act of communal transcendence against all odds.

Zack Fox

A previously undersung L.A. comedian and internet provocateur, Fox, 29, racked up more than 300,000 views with a stone-faced parody — which made perfect use of Three 6 Mafia’s “Slob on My Knob” — of Gal Gadot’s viral-for-all-the-wrong-reasons “Imagine” sing-along.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B98XjQ7AK9X/

Juan Delcan and Valentina Izaguirre

The local artist couple, based in View Park-Windsor Hills, illuminated the power of social distancing with their “Safety Match” viral video, in which animated matches light up in a row until one of them steps out of the way. Viewed roughly a million times, the contemporary art piece achieved what no government PSA could.

Alison Roman

The New York Times cooking writer (and native Angeleno), 34, had already achieved food-world stardom with two best-selling books before lockdown. Under quarantine, Roman’s simple yet flavor-packed recipes for dishes like caramelized shallot pasta — and her unfussy-but-particular Brooklyn boho banter — have become required reading and eating. Roman went from darling to pariah in May when controversial comments she made about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo went viral. If only shallots made you immune to Twitter backlash.

Ina Garten

More than 3 million people on Instagram watched the tranquil Barefoot Contessa, 72, demonstrate how she keeps her “favorite tradition,” the cocktail hour, alive under desperate conditions. The Food Network star has been a rightfully beloved figure for nearly two decades, but her mixing a gigantic cosmo was a hilariously refreshing reminder of what a true treasure she is.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-cJUwUpxbM/

L.A. tap water

You’re not good, we never loved you, and yet without gallons of overpriced filtered alkaline H2O, we’re suddenly overjoyed to guzzle you.

Bidet attachments

After hoarders cleared out the toilet paper aisles, the makers of bidet products began cleaning up with their water-jet-shooting self-cleaning devices. The brand Brondell saw a 300 percent spike in sales, while the cleverly marketed Tushy sold out entirely. The future may be wipe free.

Zoom

The video-conferencing platform — which has raised security concerns and provides the same service as FaceTime, Google Hangouts, and Facebook Messenger — has become a key part of life under quarantine. Zoom stock has jumped more than 100 percent since January.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAAihoslm_O/

The brothers Cuomo

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, 62, has been lionized for leading his state through the darkness. But his cute younger brother, 49-year-old CNN anchor Chris, stole plenty of shine when he tested positive for COVID-19 and without missing a beat continued hosting his show in self-isolation from his basement. Despite regular potshots from right-wing critics, the younger Cuomo managed to come off as more sincere and urgent than ever. One NYC matchmaker says the duo are topping her “most wanted” list, beating out even the Jonas brothers.

Reply All’s “The Case of the Missing Hit”

Podcast Reply All delivered a blockbuster with a mind-bending search for a song — which might not exist — that a man says got stuck in his head in the ’90s. A reflection of the unanswered questions inundating our lives, except with far lower stakes, the March episode has sparked a 35 percent increase in the show’s listenership.

Trolls World Tour

Universal’s Trolls sequel, with a bizarre rock-versus-pop premise and a message about cultural appropriation that will likely go over the heads of its intended audience (and perhaps that of star Justin Timberlake), set a record for the biggest debut for a digital release, topping every relevant platform during its opening weekend in April. The $20 two-day rental price seemed steep to some, but to parents with stir-crazy kids it was a bargain.

The Womanizer vibrator

With Tinder hookups on hold, we’re turning inward — and reaching for sex toys. This cheekily marketed device has seen a 152 percent year-over-year rise in U.S. sales thanks to quarantine orders. Its resonant new slogan for those hungry for pleasure: Stay home.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAp1cWNpQz6/

Sourdough bread

It’s a cliche at this point, but making it ourselves is truly com forting, if not always Tartine level. No wonder more than 100,000 posts have been tagged with #crumbshot on Instagram.

The new class of badass reporters

Journalism is never more important than during a national emergency or the mass dissemination of misinformation. We happen to be living through both. A young crop of reporters in the White House briefing room — including Weijia Jiang of CBS, Kaitlan Collins and Jeremy Diamond of CNN, Yamiche Alcindor of PBS, and Kristin Fisher of Fox News — has resisted President Trump’s theatrical boasting and mugging, pressing for straightforward information and fact-checking on the spot.

Leslie Jordan

The 64-year-old veteran actor from Will & Grace and American Horror Story has amassed more than 3 million Instagram followers since March as a result of absurdist check-in videos in which he appears to be either very bored or very stoned. Pointing to his DIY painted toenails, he shares: “I messed this one up.” Relatable.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtA9Nfhat7/

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh’s 2018 best-selling novel, about a beautiful, lazy, pill-popping young woman who attempts a yearlong hibernation in a Manhattan apartment, had been celebrated at the time of its publication for its dark humor. Now its wit is hailed as beautifully horrific, as evidenced by the literary critics who are circling back to it. Vice declared of the book in one recent headline: “Blacking Out in a Juicy Couture Tracksuit Is a Lockdown Mood.”

The smart bike

Already a cult obsession, Peloton’s $2,245 souped-up stationary bike has never been more covetable as gyms lie dormant. The company’s stock bounced 50 percent in March, leaving an offensive Christmas-ad debacle in the dust. Cheaper competitors are also racing ahead. Echelon, whose bikes start at $839, reported a tenfold increase in sales the same month.

Tushy is a bidet startup which aims to replace toilet paper, Tushy was founded by Miki Agrawal.

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COVID SOURCE SHOUT-OUT: TUSHY

Originally Posted On Coviddatadispatch.com by Betsy Ladyzhets

TUSHY is a bidet company. It’s gotten a lot of traction during the pandemic, as Americans suddenly working from home decided to upgrade their bathroom experiences. (This group includes me and my roommates.)

Now, you might ask: Betsy, why are you featuring a bidet company as a COVID-19 data source? Because a special page on TUSHY’s website is reporting the share of Americans who have been fully vaccinated, with a (NSFW) framing: “Can We Eat Ass Yet?”

The current answer is no — only 33% of the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated, according to this page. TUSHY staff are updating the page every weekday using CDC data.

“The idea for “CanWeEatAssYet.com was born when COVID was blowing up in NYC,” says TUSHY’s founder Miki Agrawal. “NYC government sent out a message to all New Yorkers to not eat ass because it could spread COVID… and we wanted to create a funny site a la “IsMercuryInRetrograde.com” with a YES / NO answer specifically for eating ass, because with TUSHY bidet, we support clean ass and wanted to let people know when it was safe to partake in the activity.”

That bright red “NO” may be switched to “YES” when 70% of the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated, but Agrawal says the team will “keep checking with the CDC regularly” to determine the perfect “ass-eating immunity” threshold. Now that’s creative science communication.

Editor’s note: This is not sponsored content, I just think the page is really funny — and TUSHY’s marketing team was kind enough to reply to my email on short notice. Also, H/T Garbage Day.

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From Carole Baskin to Leslie Jordan, the Unlikely Stars of the Quarantine

A look at the people and products who captured our imaginations (and, in some cases, our hearts) during a strange moment in history

Originally Posted On lamag.com By Paul Schrodt On May 17, 2020

It’s hard to think of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact as anything other than a series of downturns: in global health, the economy, our cultural lifeblood, and moods. But as in any crisis, there are positives deserving praise. Dr. Anthony Fauci, unknown to many of us months ago, now has his own bobblehead—and deservedly so. But other experts and personalities—some with direct ties to the novel coronavirus, others who are delightful distractions—have captured our collective imagination. Here are 20.

Carole Baskin

Netflix’s zeitgeist-defining docuseries Tiger King is teeming with wilder-than-the-last characters, but one rises above the rest. Baskin—the 58-year-old former big-cat breeder turned conservationist and archrival/attempted murder victim of central subject Joe Exotic—sports an enviable feline-inspired wardrobe; coos her memed-around-the-world tagline, “Hey all you cool cats and kittens”; and prefers not to answer questions about her mysteriously missing ex-husband. A morally ambiguous figure for our uncertain times, she’s also sure to be one of Halloween’s most popular costumes—so stock up now on the fiercest tiger prints you can find.

Dua Lipa

The British singer, 24, didn’t want to release her second album, Future Nostalgia, into a pandemic—she announced its arrival with tears on social media. But its neo-disco bangers are exactly what a lockdown dance party demands, and the release is her first Top 10 LP in the U.S. She’s liberated the masses to move while (fabulously) self-quarantining with her model-celebrity-spawn boyfriend Anwar Hadid. But how hard is that?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAayNagnmHF/

Ryan Heffington

Heffington, 46, had already been motivating Angelenos to hone their hip shaking  at his Silver Lake dance studio, the Sweat Spot, but the Grammy-nominated choreographer has turned his Joshua Tree house into a makeshift gym space. For his five-day-a-week Sweatfest cardio class on Instagram Live, he coaches around 8,000 viewers at a time through unique moves. Fans are known to end sessions with a cathartic cry.

D-Nice

Born Derrick Jones,  D-Nice had a moment as a hip-hop  artist in the ’90s that  quickly faded. But  the 49-year-old DJ  reached newfound fame streaming his live Club Quarantine sets from his downtown L.A. apartment, drawing hundreds of thousands of stay-at-home revelers, including Rihanna, Oprah Winfrey, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Michelle Obama. The funk-and-soul-heavy playlists are more than a sonic escape—they’re an act of communal transcendence against all odds.

Zack Fox

A previously undersung L.A. comedian and internet provocateur, Fox, 29, racked up more than 300,000 views with a stone-faced parody—which made perfect use of Three 6 Mafia’s “Slob on My Knob”—of Gal Gadot’s viral-for-all-the-wrong-reasons “Imagine” sing-along.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B98XjQ7AK9X/

Juan Delcan and  Valentina Izaguirre 

The local artist couple, based in View Park-Windsor Hills, illuminated the power of social distancing with their “Safety Match” viral video, in which animated matches light up in a row until one of them steps out of the way. Viewed roughly a million times, the contemporary art piece achieved what no government PSA could.

Alison Roman

The New York Times cooking writer (and native Angeleno), 34, had already achieved food-world stardom with two best-selling books before lockdown. Under quarantine, Roman’s simple yet flavor-packed recipes for dishes like caramelized shallot pasta—and her unfussy-but-particular Brooklyn boho banter—have become required reading and eating. Roman went from darling to pariah in May when controversial comments she made about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo went viral. If only shallots made you immune to Twitter backlash.

Ina Garten

More than 3 million people on Instagram watched the tranquil Barefoot Contessa, 72, demonstrate how she keeps her “favorite tradition,” the cocktail hour, alive under desperate conditions. The Food Network star has been a rightfully beloved figure for nearly two decades, but her mixing a gigantic cosmo was a hilariously refreshing reminder of what a true treasure she is.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-cJUwUpxbM/

L.A. tap water

You’re not good, we never loved you, and yet without gallons of overpriced filtered alkaline H2O, we’re suddenly overjoyed to guzzle you.

Bidet attachments

After hoarders cleared out the toilet paper aisles, the makers of bidet products began cleaning up with their water-jet-shooting self-cleaning devices. The brand Brondell saw a 300 percent spike in sales, while the cleverly marketed Tushy sold out entirely. The future may be wipe free.

Zoom

The video-conferencing platform—which has raised security concerns and provides the same service as FaceTime, Google Hangouts, and Facebook Messenger—has become a key part of life under quarantine. Zoom stock has jumped more than 100 percent since January.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAAihoslm_O/

The brothers Cuomo

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, 62, has been lionized for leading his state through the darkness. But his cute younger brother, 49-year-old CNN anchor Chris, stole plenty of shine when he  tested positive for  COVID-19 and  without missing a  beat continued hosting  his show in self-isolation from his basement. Despite regular potshots from  right-wing critics, the younger Cuomo managed to come off  as more sincere and urgent than ever. One NYC matchmaker says the duo are topping her “most wanted” list, beating out even the Jonas brothers.

Reply All’s “The Case of the Missing Hit” 

Podcast Reply All delivered a blockbuster with a mind-bending search for a song—which might not exist—that a man says got stuck in his head in the ’90s. A reflection of the unanswered questions inundating our lives, except with far lower stakes, the March episode has sparked a 35 percent increase in the show’s listenership.

Trolls World Tour

Universal’s Trolls sequel, with a bizarre rock-versus-pop premise and a message about cultural appropriation that will likely go over the heads of its intended audience (and perhaps that of star Justin Timberlake), set a record for the biggest debut for a digital release, topping every relevant platform during its opening weekend in April. The $20 two-day rental price seemed steep to some, but to parents with stir-crazy kids it was a bargain.

The Womanizer vibrator

With Tinder hookups on hold, we’re turning inward—and reaching for sex toys. This cheekily marketed device has seen  a 152 percent year-over-year rise in U.S. sales thanks to quarantine orders. Its resonant new slogan for those hungry for pleasure: Stay home.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAp1cWNpQz6/

Sourdough bread 

It’s a cliche at  this point, but  making it ourselves is truly com forting, if not always Tartine level. No wonder more than 100,000 posts have been tagged with #crumbshot on Instagram.

The new class of badass reporters

Journalism is never more important than during a national emergency or the mass dissemination of misinformation. We happen to be living through both. A young crop of reporters in the White House briefing room—including Weijia Jiang of CBS, Kaitlan Collins and Jeremy Diamond of CNN, Yamiche Alcindor of PBS, and Kristin Fisher of Fox News—has resisted President Trump’s theatrical boasting and mugging, pressing for straightforward information and fact-checking on the spot.

Leslie Jordan

The 64-year-old veteran actor from Will  & Grace and American Horror Story has amassed more than 3 million Instagram followers since March as a result of absurdist check-in videos in which he appears to be either very bored or very stoned. Pointing to his DIY painted toenails, he shares: “I messed this one up.” Relatable.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtA9Nfhat7/

My Year of Rest  and Relaxation 

Ottessa Moshfegh’s  2018 best-selling novel, about a beautiful, lazy, pill-popping  young woman who attempts a yearlong  hibernation in a Manhattan apartment, had  been celebrated at the time of its publication for its dark humor. Now its wit is hailed as beautifully horrific, as evidenced by the literary critics who are circling back to it. Vice declared of the book in one recent headline: “Blacking Out in a Juicy Couture Tracksuit Is a Lockdown Mood.”

The smart bike

Already a cult obsession, Peloton’s $2,245 souped-up stationary bike has never been more covetable as gyms lie dormant. The company’s stock bounced 50 percent in March, leaving an offensive Christmas-ad debacle in the dust. Cheaper competitors are also racing ahead. Echelon, whose bikes start at $839, reported a tenfold increase in sales the same month.

Tushy is a bidet startup which aims to replace toilet paper, Tushy was founded by Miki Agrawal.

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A Bidet Company Wants To Pay Someone $10,000 Just To Poo

Originally Posted On ladbible.com By Tom Wood On July 7, 2020

If you’ve always dreamed of making a decent living for sitting on your a**e, pin your ears back for this job opportunity from bidet company Tushy.

Basically, they’re in the market for someone to get paid $10,000 (£8,000) simply for sitting on their backside and pooping.

That’s right, they’re seeking out a toilet consultant for the summer, and the money is not to be sniffed at.

They’ve advertised the job under the title ‘VP for Fecal Matters’ — yes really — and it will essentially require the successful candidate to test out a load of products, interview folks about what they get up to in the bathroom, and share their experiences on social media.

There’s the catch, if there is one.

You’ve got to talk about the things that no-one else really wants to. If you’re fine with that, you might just stand a chance of bagging the role, though.

If you are sat there right now — perhaps emptying your bowels for free — and you think you should be getting income for your leavings, why not send Tushy a video application.

The deadline for applicants is July 10, and it’s a three-month consulting gig.

$10,000 for three months ain’t so bad, is it?

Oh, you’ve got to be over the age of 21, which means that you’ve gained significant experience in the field of using the big toilet all by yourself.

So, you’ll have to discover some way to stand out from the crowd, without being too disgusting or off-putting. This is a sales job, after all.

In a pun laden job advert, the bespoke toilet product company wrote: “TUSHY is looking for our first VP of Fecal Matters to ASSist in the day to day op-poo-rations of our #Bidet2020 campaign.

“With guidance from our Chief Pooping Officer, Dr. Mark Hyman, our new VP of Fecal Matters will be testing and studying their own pooping habits and documenting it via TUSHY’s social media.

“This will be a fart-time, (about the average time you spend on the toilet per week), $10,000 contract role.

“On day one, the new VP of Fecal Matters will have a one-on-one with Dr. Mark Hyman and TUSHY’s founder Miki Agrawal to plan out their dooties.

“By week two, the VP of Fecal Matters will have assembled a butt-ton of data around their bowel movements based on their diet and research.

“By their final week, they will have converted more buttholes to the TUSHY movement through their research and content.”

What are you waiting for? Get stuck in!

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BIDET COMPANY WE'LL PAY YOU $10K JUST TO POOP!!!

Bidet Company Offering $10,000 Summer Job Just to Poop Originally Posted On Tmz.com On July 07, 2021

This summer job is the s**t ... a bidet company is offering $10,000 for one lucky person to spend their summer testing a toilet paper alternative, and sharing the journey with all. Here's the dookie deal ... all ya gotta do to get the dough is be able to poo, analyze and document your daily bowel movements, and share your fecal findings on social media. The $10,000 gig comes with an exec title -- Vice President of Fecal Matter -- that'll definitely stand out on your resume. Now, it's not for everybody ... ya gotta have at least 21 years on-the-job John experience, and a very open-bathroom-door policy. The 3-month consulting position is with TUSHY, which fashions itself as a modern bathroom brand revolutionizing the way people poop with different kinds of bidets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hfxdwGXU8kAll applicants must submit a video and, we gotta say ... good luck matching Ashley K.'s skills. Still, we're told applications are already pouring in ahead of the company's July 10 deadline. Makes sense ... much like opinions, everyone's got one. It ain't just straight poop, though ... the VP will also be tasked with interviewing others about their toilet habits, testing TUSHY products against the competition, and prodeuce-ing video content for social media. Good luck and remember, ya gotta be #1 to talk ✌🏽!!!

Tushy is a bidet startup which aims to replace toilet paper, Tushy was founded by Miki Agrawal.

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miki-agrawal · 3 years

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Are we really in for a summer of love? A post-vaccine dating investigation.

Dating podcasters, condom companies, bartenders, and college students weigh in on the horny months to come.

Originally Posted On vox.com By Lauren Vespoli On may 3, 2021

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“I’m excited to go a bit buck wild and feel so much safer,” says Elena, a recently vaccinated college student. “Just go on a lot of dates, make out with some guys, nothing serious.”

The 20-year-old Salt Lake City resident, who asked that her last name be withheld to protect her privacy, is ready to make up for lost time in her romantic life. She did some app dating during the pandemic, but Covid-19 was a constant presence, with several of her dates later telling her they’d been exposed (though she never caught the coronavirus). During quarantine, Elena spent time rehashing missed chances in her love life. “I was just thinking, ‘When I’m out of this, I’m going to make the most of every opportunity,’” she says.

In Manhattan, Marc Hernandez, a bartender at the cocktail bar Ampersand, says that even at 50 percent capacity, the scene — “which has always been one for first dates” — is already feeling like its pre-Covid days. “That gets me thinking that the summer is going to be a little wild,” he says.

“WHEN I’M OUT OF THIS, I’M GOING TO MAKE THE MOST OF EVERY OPPORTUNITY”

“Shot girl summer.” “Vaxxed and waxed.” The “whoring 20s.” As the US becomes increasingly inoculated and the weather continues to warm, the number of Americans who are ready to date is on the rise: A Morning Consult survey for the week ending April 25 found that 53 percent of adults feel “comfortable” dating right now, up 9 percent from the last week in March (although women still feel less comfortable than men). Everyone from Andrew Yang to the bidet company Tushy — which is maintaining a herd-immunity countdown clock at CanIEatAssYet.com — are building anticipation for a hedonistic release of pent-up sexual energy.