Review: Queens Hotel, Leeds, UK

Zoe Vanderweide/NYT Wirecutter This prettily packaged balm has a rich, buttery texture that soothes and smoothes severe dryness with shea butter and honey. Its rose and citrus fragrance is subtle, though it may cause irritation for extra-sensitive skin. You’d be surprised at how often an all-purpose salve comes to the rescue in and out of…

Place your vitamin C serum in the fridge, a cabinet, or a drawer—all of which should protect it from heat and humidity. Skip the sun-drenched display or shower-adjacent shelf. Hannah Frye/NYT Wirecutter You don’t need a special, tiny skin-care fridge—a simple cool, dark place will do. “I typically recommend storing them in a cabinet,” said…

Your range hood is right in the line of fire in your kitchen, pun intended. It gets blasted with hot, greasy steam each time you cook. And unlike ovens, where high temperatures bake splatter into smooth stains, range hoods just get sticky and gross, says Cindy LeBow, the founder of Great Green Cleaning. LeBow has…

The Great Fly Infestation of 2024. Elissa Sanci/NYT Wirecutter Over the span of just a week, my garage became a breeding ground for houseflies. Dozens of them buzzed around, congregating in clumps around the window, their little bodies thudding against the glass as they flew toward the light. I assumed that they would eventually find…

The term “medical-style mask” refers to the types of masks you typically see in health-care settings. These include respirators, such as those labeled N95 (designed to meet US standards), KN95 (Chinese standards), KF94 (Korean standards), and FFP2 (European standards), as well as surgical masks — the pleated variety with ear loops or ties that typically…