Ah, bidets. If you've ever traveled internationally—especially in Europe and Japan—you've probably encountered bidet toilets, which offer a few extra features you don't typically find here in the U.S.

Sixty-five-year-old Albert Lim of Walnut Creek, California, has purchased five bidets over the last seven years — two for each house he owns and one for his elderly parents. In Taiwan, where Lim was ...

Thousands of Americans — myself included — ordered a bidet during the toilet paper shortage of the 2020 lockdown. And we all realized what Italian, Japanese, and other cultures have known for decades: ...

Editor's Note: This week's column continues the discussion of the bidet, common in Europe and elsewhere but not in the United States. As we all know our nation is the world's most civilized country in ...

Bidets are an alternative to toilet paper. They clean your backside using water, allowing you to forgo toilet tissue altogether. Although they’re extremely popular in European and Asian countries, ...

As people prepare to stay home during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, some household staples are getting stockpiled more zealously than others. In addition to hand sanitizer and face masks, toilet ...

Considering a bidet for your toilet? These water-dispensing fixtures have plenty of benefits, including a thorough clean of your backside, reduced reliance on single-use paper products and a more ...

When it's time to shower, do you rub a dry towel all over yourself and call it a day? Of course not. Yet, using dry toilet paper is considered a perfectly acceptable way to clean our dirtiest areas.

Perhaps you experienced a bidet while traveling in Europe or Asia, where they’re fairly common. On first glance at your hotel’s bathroom, you might have wondered why there seemed to be a second, mini ...

This article is part of CNN Underscored’s Earth Week, a weeklong focus on our planet and ways to celebrate and preserve it. We’ll be featuring tips on how to live more sustainably, products to help ...

As cases of the coronavirus continue to climb, nothing feels more surreal than the irrational stockpiling of toilet paper, even though experts tell us it isn’t necessary and manufacturers say there is ...

Keeping your butt clean is a high priority for healthy living. The pandemic-related toilet paper shortages brought home the tissue issue when we couldn’t find TP easily. It was an uncomfortable ...